The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-23

our demon driver" was in his prime.
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 New Jersey to Be
 Rid of Mosquitoes r money and sanitary science can
 < exterminate the New Jersey mos quito, long the theme of jokesmiths
 and the plague of Jerseyites, the pest will in time be thing of the past. The salt marsh lands are to be re- claimed and when this work is com Ipleted, the increased revenues from taxes on enhanced values in 20 years will, it is estimated, more than cover
 the expenditure. In several counties the drainage of mosquito breeding places has al- ready been completed. But in two counties where the marsh lands are most extensive, the work of draining 
 will not be started until stronger pres
 sure is brought to bear upon the au- thorities to make adequate appropria- tions. This will probably be accom- lplished during the present year. The wonder is that the people of  New Jersey have borne with the mos
 quito pest so long. After Dr. W. c.
 Gorgas, now surgeon general of the
 United States army, exterminated the
 mosquitoes in the Panama canal zone and made the lands, once marshy and
 mosquito-ridden, entirely sanitary,
 the mosquito problem in the United States seems easy of solution. * < * Twelve quarts of whisky mysteri- ously disappeared from the city hall. | That's the second time that particular whisxy has been confiscated, but 1t has ! probably filled a long-felt want by this time.
 A star of the movies who is getting on in years has no use for 'close- up." The camera has become an awful pre- varicator, but it still shows the wrinkles in movie queens face. < # < | It wouldn't do for the American people to know too much about what is really going on in Germany and Austria. They
 might get the idea that the war will end in less than a month. # # E It may be due to the war and it may be due to something else, but the fellow who made the wearing of loud socks the chief aim of his existence has disap- peared.
 Steamboat pilots in and around Mem phis are shaking their heads in conster- nation. The idea of the old Mississippi being choked with ice is too much for them.
 There is no luxury like billing and coo ing, says Winifred Black Some of the recent breach of promise suits seem to prove the truth of Winifred's state 1 ment.
 | The British no doubt found keen satis- | faction in putting out of business two Turkish warships which formerly bore | German names.
 Occasionally man strolls into a res
 taurant and orders three soft boiled eggs
 but he invariably becomes an object oi
 suspicion.
 i Mary man who waxes eloquent about 1 our boys lover there'' secretly thanks his
 lucky stars that he is still lover here" * ,. # Cables report great unrest in Spain. Il lS IdIo tO Ailtu d HpVI On LlS uldp itOW- adays where there isn't great unrest. # sf * Obstrcperous soldiers have discovered that the Jefferson county jail was not
 named the Big Rock" for nothing. x $ * Surely, Senator Lodge believes in giy- 1 ign ''dwelers In the twilight zone" a chance to make good. if they can. * # * Buck up" says the Atlanta Journal l Good advice. And while you are about it, you might also buckle down. x r ;r Lenine's stage wife is pretty enough
 to console him while he is occupying a back seat.
 * * * At any rate, Colonel Roosevelt knows l now what "Gumshoe Bill'' thinks of him 1 SOMETHING NEW IN LIMoUsINEs
 From the Chicago Herald.