Life — March 8, 1906 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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R. PARKHURST says the people of New York are not afraid of Hades.—Houston Post. Not if the Doctor is going the other w: The simple trousseau of Mother Eve compared with the complicated bridal paraphernalia of the present time suggests a startling contrast. —Howston Fost. As Eve was never a bride, how could she have had a trousseau ? “Saxon and Norman and Dane are we.” York Tribune. And Chink and Guine: id Coon and Sheeny and a few others. There are twenty-nine journalists and nineteen authors in the new British Parliament.—Boston Herald. If the American Congress contained a similar leaven of literary brains this country might hope for some intelligent legislation in copyright matters. o Gov. Jobnsoa of Minnesota thinks any man should be able to live on $r0y000 a year.—Chicago It's quite possibl inside the speed limit. Governor, if he runs his automobile we The limelight has no terrors for the Rou; ‘This does not refer to Col. Roosevelt, but to Gen. Sherman Bell, who has lately gone on the stage. Rider. —Marper's Weekly Tan Maclaren thinks it a grave mistake fora young man Chicago News It's a worse one for the young man to think he is. be witty.— There is no fool like a first-time grandfather. St, Joreph News. A certain distinguished gentleman in the White House should remem- ber that. Capt. Samuel Kuhns, aged tor years, has just married Mrs, Sarah Jackson Crawford, aged 100.—New York Times, “Oh, there's nothing half sosweet in life, etc.” ? It was the Harvard alumni who managed to dine and orate without mentioning football.— Detroit News. Now, if Harvard had beaten Yale—but that’s another story. LIFE'S WEATHER FORECAST. INDICATIONS OF A LONG DRY SPELL. 309 Gas is going to be cheaper in Chicago than it has been.— Chicago Journal. How could it? d Everything is quiet in China, —/udianapolis News, What are the missionaries doing ? King Edward says that he works twelve hours a day.—Nere Vork Evening Sun. He ought to join a labor union. ) Philadelphians have been terribly outraged as to their domestic seni ties by a citizen who ordered a coffin for his wife while she was stillalive and in good health,—San Francisco News-Letter. And yet every Philadelphian feels that in the midst of life we are in death. Some reformer in Chicago has taken up the job of making the street cars clean, healthy and roomy.—Philadelphia Press. . If he’s successful, Mr. Ryan and his associates will pay him a large salary to keep away from New York. oo? There are already more Spanish war veterans on the pension roll thatr were men in all Shafter’s army.—/#ttsburgh Dispatch. ‘They're all young yet, and their widows will last well into the twenty-first century. Culture progresses in the Middle West. Kansas City has lately built one of the best race tracks in the countey.—Boston Tran- script. Meanwhile that chief apostle of culture, Mr. Anthony Comstock, has decreed that the ‘sport of kings ’’ must be banished from New York. } Episcopal clergymen are itching for a chance to investigate and re-write the Bible, Sam Francisco News-Letter. They would probably blue-pencil the verses permitting divorce. me) It is a beautiful trait of character to find it hard to believe evil of our friends.—Woreester Gazette. What's one to do if one has friends in the life insurance busin Perhaps this belief that graft is inevitable in connection with the Panama Canal isheld only by people who are too old-fashioned in their ideas to realize that a new order of things has dawned.—Washington Star. Did anybody notice that dawn? If so, when and where did it happen ? Give the boys work who want to work. Make the boys work who don't want to work,— Austin News-Tribune. If you don’t, the boys who don’t want to work will grow up to work the boys who want to work. comicbooks.com