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Life is full of trials, and nowdays they are chiefly murder trials. - Boston Herald. Congress will hardly make any more battleship appropriations until it formúlales a code providing for their christening. - Washington Post. A Pittsburg vvoman shot her husband in the leg to keep hiui at home, and now when he is asked to go out with the boys he offers a lame exouse. - Chicago Dispatch. Of every 14 families in the United States one family is partially or wholly suppo.ted by the government. Uncle Öam is a pretty good provider, after all. - Boston Globe. In St. Louis a judge has decided that smoke is not a nuisanue in common law. He probably never rode in the seat behind aman who was smoking ''two-fers." - Philadelphia Press. Nevada is the only state in the Union where the law permits prizeflghting, and Nevada is also about the only state iu the Union where there is no prizeflghting in progruss. - New York Journal. European nationa will not take the word of those who have been burned, but one by one they must rub their noses up against the Monroe doctrino to see i f it is as warm as it is advertised. - Chicago Record. A student in California, suffering froin a sprained leg, had the leg baked in an oven at a temperature of 300 degrees, auc report says be was cured. We knew there was tough ineat in the west, but we thought the limit had already been