Life — August 16, 1906 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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“EVP E* What chance has a rich man in this countty, anyway? —Cincinnati cial, Not any of State’s prison or the electric chair. x One person in every 1,200 is blind, says a special census report. St. Josep News ‘Therefore, one person in every 1,200 is saved the nausea consequent in seeing the so-called humorous supplements of the Sunday newspapers. Senator Depew can see no one.—Detroit News That doesn’t explain his not writing. RAZIL, which has been shooting off a few guns in honor of Secretary Root, evidently knows a big when it sees one.—Chicago News, 2 Is it possible that the canny Secretary of State has learned If Prof. Courtney keaves Cornell University the higher education of oars- from Mr. Bryan the value of absence in working up @ presi- men will reeelve 5 sad blow:— New York Werle. dential boom ? & — New Hampshire, a small state held down by mountains.— Mexican Herald. And Bill Chandler. Q The ridiculous «mn of wearing that shining funnel, the silk h will appear as stupely to our great-grandchildren as the cust ‘of putting a booe through the lip or a ring through the nostrils ap- pears monstrous to us.—Paris Gaulois. It won't disappear as long as it’s the only evi- dence some men can show of their respectab AE A chorus gitl famine is reported in New York.—Baltimore American This may be the good coming from the evil of the Thaw affair. Foolish parents may be waking up to the dangers of the chorus. be The pictures of the czarevitch show a very bright boy whom it is a pity to load down with an inheritance such as the czar is preparing for him.—Columbus Dispatch. Which he may never inherit. cae) Chicago is the most bealthful spot in the world. —Chicago News. Have you read “The Jungle?” ‘The ladies of Japan are not allowed to be photographed while in bathing. —Providence Tribune. Japan evidently hasn’t included the yellow journal among its modern improvements. H velson Morris, a Chicago packer, talks bitterly of the President. —Indianapotis News That's the most complimentary thing that’s been printed about the President fora long time. € ‘The world owes more prohably to members of the medical profession than to any other profession known to man.—Hospital. The doctors, however, are pretty good collectors and the debt is being rapidly reduced Here “Prof.” evidently stands for “professional coach,” the bane of college athletics. Drere Williston, of Lincoln, has a four legged chicken that lays five exgs a day —Cincinnati Commercial. Wizard Burbank should make the ac- quaintance of that chicken with a view to its general introduction. Bg Silver is now selling at 32 to 1 in gold—Los Angeles Times. Soft—don’t mention that to Near-President Bryan. ( Mrs. Russell Sage is philanthropic, and will doubtless make good use of the millions that have been put into her care.—Somerville Journal. But the legal blackmailers won’t let her. ¢ Glasgow has found its telephone service a beavy burden, and after spending a million dollars on improvements it has sold the service to the Postoffice at a loss of $200,000 and is congratulating itself that the loss was no greater.— Philaddphia Record. What do our parlor Socialists care for an object lesson like that? A Cleveland Judge says that if kissing a neighbor's wife were grounds for divorce the courts would be swamped.— Hamilton Sun. Pittsburg would better look out for her laurels. CLE What's become of the old fellows who wore linen dusters?—St. Joseph News. AioruER NEW aEasEY Give it up. But the dusters are on Houp-er the young fellows in the automobiles. comicbooks.com