The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-03-11
BY THE WAY


The Federal land bank Of Louisville !,
KY. has I0,778 loans out and hopes
10 lend more than fifteen millions this
year.
The City of Denton. Texas. has Civ
en- free license tage to SIX rat terriers
as reward for the killing of 10000
rats during the past year.
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A Williams County, Texas hen has
produced an egg measuring five inches
in length and eight inches in circum-
ference. This is not an eggs-aggeration
for the egg-straordinary egg was meas
ured by reliable Williams County citi-
gems, and IS now on display in one Of
the store windows.
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Organized labor in Peru demands
that the cost Of living be reduced. that
the manufacture Of alcoholic liquor be
stopped, and that free transportation
be furnished to those out Of employ
ment.
Look out for new aspirant for pu-
gilistic honors. and from all indications
mr. Dempsey will have to look to his
Ilaurels This mans name is Smith,
and he was born on farm in Mimi
esota, Later he went to California,
where he was employed as carpenter
in a movie show. There he was a
Find Now they are grooming him
and so far he has knocked out every
man that has stood before him. Ralph
Smith is E #, zinches in height, all
muscle and weight 220 lbs; aged IL;
has reach Of 85 inches, the longest
reach Of any pugilist that ever stepped
into the ring; neck 1914 inches; wrist
1917 inches, calf Is, biceps Is, waist
I34. Won't he fall hard though when
| he does fall.
1853
/ You remember what Fitz used to
say, bring EN- along, the bigger they
are the harder they fall" but we may
be fooled in Smith; lets hope so any
way. Dempsey has never been credit
Ito the manly art of self-defense. Guns
are ok in war, but between ourselves
| the proper way to settle any kind of
a misunderstanding is to settle it with
in the padded circle. there the punish
ment lasts all the time, and the punish
er feels satisfied, but in gun play. well
there is no punishment dealt out only
to the fellow that is the best shot, he
has all his days behind prison bars to
regret while with the dead there is no
thing TO regret.
1888
The English government will collect
I$4,300,000 in estate and Inheritance
taxes from the heirs Of famous Eng
fish shipowner, who recently died and
left fortune of $6,250,000, Read
this over again; it is startling, but true.
You may imagine that the figures are
wrong, that some mistake has been
made in the type, but it is not so; they
have left the heirs to disburse between
them $l,950.000, which under any
kind of circumstances ought TO be
enough to support them in comfort all
their days. The rest goes to. the gov
eminent Is it any wonder that the
English pound ste.ling has recovered
SO quickly when they have the spirit
TO write such law as that into the
statute books Of the nation? Our gov
eminent has been dilIy-dalIying over
the question Of what to do, or what
not to do for the boys. our boys, who
suffered in the trenches; and so far
they have done nothing but talk about
what they will do. Today, they speak
of taxing this; tomorrow they find
SO much opposition to that subject that
they commence to talk Of taxing some
other thing. But have you ever heard
of such a thing as taxing two-thirds Of
all inheritances2 No. Yet what would
lbe more faIr than such law!
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When real king will stand up bare
headed in the council chambers of his
nation and listen to the demands Of the
senators to discontinue the use Of the
words by the grace Of God" and new
er bats an eye in protest. then there is
something doing in this old world Of
lours. The discrimination of that sim
Iple sentence would mean that the so-
called divine rights of king are all
thrown in the scrap pile of modern
thought, and that kings are but COM
mon mortals here below. Yet this is
what king Gustave of Sweden did last
week, and now the conservatives of
that country are wild with anger at the