The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1922-01-19

DO you suppose De valera mas Su4-
fered : mental relapse and has for
gotten the nationality Of the fellows
he has picked . fight WITH
4 scientist has counted $1,000
germs sitting on . pin point. Must
be deuced uncomfortable for the little
pssts.
Conan Doyle says Heaven 10 =
place where there are no children
and no old people. Doesn't sound
like Heaven 70 u. Wonder il Conan
Doyle Is sure he wasn't visiting the
other place!
The French word for shirt is "che-
mise according to IN overseas man.
This ID news to ". And, really, We
were surprised sometime back to
learn that "shimmy" was . dance in
stead Of = clothesline decoration.
A subscriber who has q wife and
eight children and an income Of $500
. year wants to know how much IN
come tax he will have to pay. His
exemption being 1T least $500 It
looks to US A. II the government win
owe him money.
Bankers sDd poker players are re-
ported to object to the new silver
dollar because It will not stack. How
ever, thsre are others who will take
It without objsction being offered. The
Index will take \ whole wagon load
on subscription.
"Talk about absent mindedness,"
said . business man the other day,
''last Saturday when = customer
handed me dollar in payment for
purchase put the dollar in the spit
toon and spit in the cash drawer"
Win Hayes, postmaster general,
Is to resign to accept . position with
} movie corporation. All that oc-
rurs to US ut the moment il that the
film folks need Will Hays-or some
other good Presbyterian to keep them
straight.
A farmer, after having married .
widow worth $4,000, was being con-
"Well, Seth" remarked
he neighbor, II hear you are $4,000
% the good" "Not quite that" re-
Piled the farmer modestly. Mot
quite that. You see it cost 81 to get
he license"
An old Scotchman was threatened
With blindness II he did not give up
thinking. "Now, McTavish," said the
DOCTOR, ''its like this: You're either
% stop your whisky or lose your eye
highland you must choose" "Ay,
Veel, DOCTOR" said McTavish, "I'm
IN auld mon, moo, an Pm thinkin'
hae ,seen ABBOTT everything worth
Ieein'"
The new guard was not familiar
With certain railway run in Wales.
came = station which rejoiced in the
lame Of Observation-Disclosures.
Tor few minutes he stood looking at
he signboard in mute helplessness.
Then pointing to the board. and wav
ng his other arm toward the train,
10 called: "If there's anybody there
or this. this Is i'll"
Dwight Shaw can not only hear
and concerts and vocal singing, but
ven conversation over his wireless
telephone. II these school boys keep
n with wireless outfits, it will soon
q so that = young fellow can't sit
uietly on . bench and talk to his
est girl on q moonlight night with
ut schoolboys in distant cities know
ng what he says to her. Sisters
hink their small brothers already
now too much.
Rumor charged resident with
Raging his wife from = certain
netting and compelling her to re-
urn home with him. The man let the
tory travel until he had . fair OPP ,
ortunity to give it broadside, and
hen he replied in the local paper rs !
pillows: I'm the first place, l never ,
tempted to influence my wife in '
er views or her choice Of meeting.
scond. my wife did not attend the |
,eeting in question. In the third I
lace, did not attend the meeting '
,yself. Finally, never had wife"
Gentlemen Of the jury" erupted
ne attorney for the plaintiff, ad- |
ressing the 12 Arkansas peers who ,
ere sitting in judgment on their
sspective shoulder blades, in \ dam {
e suit against grasping corpor-