The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-08

Direful news from London, where the Britishers are reported to have con- sumed large quantities of spirituous liquors in celebrating the end of the war
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 What's come over President Wilson |? Is he acquiring the Gallic tempera- ment? He is said to have thrown kiss es with both hands at crowds in Italy.
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 If the Prince of Wales should mar ry an American girl, she wouldn't have to be the daughter of packer or steel king. The Windsor family is well off.
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 Jess Willard declines to box for a purse of s75,000 Why should he ex- ert himself and maybe get slap On the wrist for such a trivial sum?
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 President Wilson can now vote in 1900 Italian towns and cities, but he will continue to exercise his right of suffrage at Princeton, N. J.
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 A battered trolley car gives mute evidence of the wrath of the down. trodden commuter who never gets home in time for dinner
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 Politicians disnatch messages of con- dolence when great leader dies and immediately begin to search for some- body to fill his shoes
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 Any aviator who has made a cross- country flight will tell you that it is much easier and safer to get up than it is to get down.
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 Premier Clemenceau doesn't mind saying exactly where he stands Such conduct is unthinkable to an old-fasl- toned diplomat
 If Columbus hadn't discovered Amer ica different story might be told of St. Mihiel, the Argonne and Chateau Thierry.
 It must require great deal of forti- tude for Mayor Hylan to bear up under the criticism directed at his adminis- tration.
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 The truth of the old adage about an ill wind has been exemplified anew. The overturn in overshoes was enor- nous
 The wheels of industry keep turning round. although the Hon. Tyrus Cobb pardon, Captain Cobb-is in our midst. < * # The language barrier doesn't prevent American soldiers from leaving French maidens in tears when they start home. From the New York Times London.-A dispatch from Paris says that Prof. Abel Lefranc, the greatest living authority on Rabelais and an hon. orary member of the Royal Society of Literature, has contributed a double column leader to the Petit Parisien ir which he advances a novel theory re- of Shakespeare. According to the professor, whose lec- lures at the College De France are large ly attended, the Bard of Avon was neither Shakespeare nor Lord Bacon | but William Stanley, sixth Earl of Derby and the ancestor of the present British ambassador to France. l Tie arguments adduced by Professor Lefranc are already causing much dis cussion in ParisiaQ literary circles and promise to lead to incidents akin te those of the Bacon Shakespeare contro l versy.
 Professor Lefranc contends he hal proved that the author of Loves Labor Lost" must have lived in France, ant 1 then proceeds to the conclusion tha William Stanley was the only English man of the period who could have seer French life. from the aspect developed in that play.
 l In the Stanley family there was al hereditary instinct for the theatre and 1 like his father and his brother Ferdi ! nand, fifth Earl of Derby. William Stan. ley was devoted to the poetry of stage i craft.
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