Life — December 9, 1905 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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THIS BUBBLE WORLD HE: people only fecl the colonial policy as an increasing burden, They do not perceive any resulting blessing. — Frankfurter Zeitung, The Germans doubtless excel in philosophy, but when it comes to cant, we Anglo-Saxons have them faded. The rich man who gives to the public benefit is merely making restitution to the society which has overpaid him for his services.— Rabbi Hirsch. He who giveth (a million dollars or so) unto the poor, lendeth (other people’s money) unto the Lord. Sach incidents as the accidental shooting of a Chinaman with birdshot are not uncommon, and are usually settled by the payment of a dollar or two, Shanghai Cablegram. The Orient is pretty backward, for sure. As compared with the automobile, birdshot is archaic enough and in- effective enough to extort a smile, There is an astonishing divorce between the ethicalideals of Christendom and its normal practices. —//ibbert Journal. Well, possibly they were married too young. Do you happen to wear an amulet ?—Boston Herald. No, dear; we find a porous plaster more clinging. The yield of gold last year was worth $60, less than $1.00 for each inhabitant of the Uni York World. Very much less than $1.00 for ‘each inhabitant.” Ask | John D., J. Pierpont and H. H. about it, Football is dull. —/arvard Bulletin, Well, for that matter, so is Wagner, or the simple life, or, if the truth must be told, universal peace. And the humble factory girl who has looked upon the pageant is happy. for a whole year in the knowledge that “1 seen Mrs. Vanastorbilt, and she ain't so much New York World, Can it be, after all, that the Society column is a boom- erang? Chicago is said to contain eighteen thousand deserted wives.—Chicago Journal. Which was it—Bridge, or the cooking recipes in The Ladies’ Home Journal ? Lord Byron wrote. that “there's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.” —Cineinnaté En- quiver. At last we have the source of Dr. Burchard's famous ‘‘Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" al- literation which defeated Blaine. 723 ssippi still assassinates witnesses who know too much of criminal violations of law.—Buffalo News, In New York we are more civilized. We put up five thousand dollars bail for them and let them skip. The foreign office at St. Petersburg, notwithstanding the turbulence and bloodshed of which it is the center, is pere BALL fecting plans for the meeting of the international peace con ZN ference in May at The Hague.—Columbus Dispatch. So, after all, Russia is going to the peace conference. A going-to-pieces conference would suit her better. A hen in Switzerland is said to have laid one thousand eggs.— Baltimore American, ‘This beats King Edward’s record of three hundred and forty-two cornerstones. An English girl has started the fad of collecting her friends’ kisses in an album, the pages of which are so constructed as to retain the impress of their labial jabs.—Lowiseille Times. ‘The Boston girl preserves hers in cold storage. Why ali this fuss about King George IV. marrying Mrs, Fitzherbert ?—Chicago News, To give a brigade of obscure Americans opportunity to get their pictures in the yel- low journals as would-be left-handed de- scendants of royalty. The consulting engineers are unable to decide on the kind of canal we should have.—/ttsturgh Dispatch, We're not expert engineers, but we'd rather have one with water in it, Three men were arrested in Chicago the other day for going armed to a theatre, There is no excuse for a man carrying his gua toa theatre.— Houston Post. Evidently the Theatrical Trust doesn’t send its shows to Houston, A beautiful young girl is making a living asa guide in Athens. —Lowis- Poor girl ! “ Guide of Athens, ere we part, ete. How many times she must have to listen to The latest development of the Taft trip to the Orient is the presence of a thief on board the transport.—PittsAurgh Dispatch. From the Filipino point of view there was more than one. Mr, James H. Hyde is less than thirty years of age, and received an annual salary of one hundred thousand dollars.—IWashington Star. It should be remembered, however, that both Mr. Hyde and the younger McCurdy showed unusual judgment in selecting their fathers, Eventually it may become practical to eliminate the equine element from the New York horse show.—Detroit News. But never the asinine, New York Prohibitionists cast three hundred and twenty-seven votes at the recent election. — Chicago Journal. ‘This accounts for the fact that New York is about to spend many millions of dollars for an increase in its water supply. comicbooks.com