Life — April 5, 1906 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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Bubble ENATOR DEPEW says he wishes the public would forget him Houston Lost. He seems to be almost resigned to it. Herman Menz, of Detroit, who erected a statue of Satan on his lawn, asa defiance to the churches, is a candidate for Alderman in that city. — Pail phia Press He'd stand a better chance of election in t that you must possess and retain a degree of infor- mation before you can realize that you are a fool — Tyler Courier If this is true, some one ought to start a society for supplying information to New York's newly rich. g facturers of adulterated food-products are trying to make it Harper's a that they use only pure poisons in their bus The seventh commandment seems to be a dead letter law in the United States, Pa = This State will keep out of freakish amti-cigarette legislation, Citizen, And thus sensible Massachusetts puts silly Indiana to the blush, Pex we A Frenchman says Kaiser Wilhelm is “a whirlwind of personality.” —Chicago New This Frenchman would probably describe Datto Bryan as ‘ta personality of hot air."’ There is a woman in New York society whose notorious vulgari- ties of speech and action, to say nothing of her abominable man- ners, are only condoned on account of her wealth and inherited posi- tion, Gertrude Atherton in the Cosmopolitan. One? n. Corbin says the trouble with the Chinese is that they resent the efforts to force a lot of new creeds on them.— Chicago Journal. It's a trouble our mis- sionaries will rectify if it takes every soldier the United States can raise to back them up. World LIFE’S WEATHER FORECAST. very suep, 425 In the West there are signs of a fight between the Bryan and the Hearst forces.— Mechester Pest. It should be fought under the cats of Kil- kenny rules. ® “Death Valley" Scott calls himself the “Creosus” of the West.—Pittsburgh Sun. Recalling a conversation in which Drydol- lar Sullivan once alluded to himself as a “Sphoenix. CQ jot Boni at last succeeds in commanding genuine sympathy. H. Washington Star. On Anna's money? has the grip. ? ago preacher has discovered what is called a Vork Tribune, Trust a preacher to find evil in everything. chance for Anthony Comstock. ? To hell with law.—Johanm Mest's last swords An unparliamentary way of saying what is thought by every one who experiences the law's delays. big » of millions in the West says that millionaires can be happy though faltimore American, He can't prove it by us. “candy jag.” Another ) We are interested to note the announcement of a novel © that leavesa good, taste in the mouth."—Saston Transcript. Has Henry James been writing a cook-book with a plot ? 2 It is said that the number of swine in the State of New York is con- stantly diminishing.—/owston Post. Not if one may judge by the rear platforms of New York's street-cars. An inventor promises a boat that will cross the Atlantic in two days.—Denver Republican, Still too long for seasickness and certainly too short for a satisfactory sea-flirtation. A legislator sissippi has introduced a bill to stop Airting and encourage matri- mony.—Baltimore American Acurious way of getting back at the girl. } The Kaiser asserts that in case of war he will head the army in person,—Utica Observer. With certain possibilities in mind, it might be held that war hath its blessings no less than those of peace. ZED Statistics show that the length of life in Chicago has increased 129. per cent, in the last fifty years.— Indianapolis News, That zs tough. comicbooks.com