Judge — May 16, 1908 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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LITERARY NOTES. OOKS are booming again. One of the six best cellars in Kansas this season is the cyclone cellar. We print this joke just to get it out of the way. A popular cereal in Scotland this year, for which there is even a greater demand than for the works of Barrie or Stevenson, is oatmeal. Our reason for printing this joke is the same as above. A story that has attracted much attention among visitors to the metropolis this winter is the top story of the Flatiron Building. It is lofty in character and exceedingly breezy, We don’t know why we have printed this joke, but here it is. ou are looking for a book that is full of live charac ely human, and thoroughly of to-day, you will find the issue of the telephone book contains all that you seek, although some read- ers prefer the current edition of the city directory. This isn’t a joke, but a solid fact. Word has been received in this city of the death of William Shake- speare, Mr. Shakespeare was the author of several poems of note, and a play called * Hamlet" that was produced in New York last winter to indifferent hou: He was also the writer of aI number of pop- quotations. His decease lea Mr. Bernard Shaw the only consid able literary personage in England, A Western critic has been at considerable pains to. prove that Daniel Webster did not write Web- ster’s Dictionary. His arg tion that the book does not read like one c's § cks coher- ence and continuity of thought, is impre J to some minds we should Merry play and merry I have wished, think would prove conclusiv Hon. Owen Wister, of Philadelphia, who recently stood for office in that interesting city, was returned by a large majority —to literature. Mr. George Ade, on the other hand, who sought an election as a Fairbanks delegate to the Chicago convention, has won the coveted honor, so that the humor of the Fairbanks candidacy may be looked upon as an assured fact. A collection of short biographies of President Roosevelt, Secretary Taft, Hon. James R. Garfield, Mr. Jacob Riis, W. J. Loeb, and Surgeon-Admiral Rixey is announced for early publication under the alluring title of ** M My People.” It is expected to prove as popular as “* Plutarch’s Li that old favorite, “ Rab and His Friends.”” JON KENDRICK BANGS. PROTEST. HERE was a puir laddie ca’ed Patton; Sae worrit was he to pit fat on, COMFORTING NEWS OF HIS That he ganged to his bed, “* Professor, how is that boy of mine getting along? Does he And on eggs was he fed, teem ambitious?” Till a hen cried, "* It’s time he were sat on!” “T should say so! Most ambitious boy I ever saw—to get out of school." tiers DOUBLING HIS MONEY. N AUBURN man saw in a trade paper an ad. telling that a Detroit man, Box 220, would, for the price of one dollar, tell him how to double hi money in a jiffy, This looked good; so inclosing the required dollar in a letter, he sent awa for the answer. A week later the Auburn man received from the man in Detroit this succinct but. reliable information : To double your money multi- SEPARATED AGAIN. ty and Ryan, the old-time political rivals thi —But they didn’t figure on the “ Merry Widow ries zon earth would e sailor comicbooks.com