Timely Topics

TIMELY TOPICS.

The gasoline stove is getting ready for its summer rush.––Baltimore American.

About this time of year it might be profitable to keep the fact in mind that thirty-one persons were killed and 2,772 injured in the Fourth of July celebration of a year ago.––Pittsburg Dispatch.

Diplomacy is a queer game. Among all the powers now protesting against Russia's occupation of Manchuria is there a single one that has not known from the first that Russia was in Manchuria for keeps?––Chicago News.

The governor of Kansas says he will appoint no man to office who has not something laid away for a rainy day. What does the governor of Kansas think people want public offices for, anyway?––Chicago Record-Herald.

If the czar knows his business the road to Siberia will be scraped and rolled with unusual care in order that everybody responsible or the Kishineff massacre will be able to make the fastest time possible to the mines.––Rochester Post-Express.

Suppose the postage stamps are not works of art, who cares? They answer their purpose just as well as if each one were hand painted and doubtless better. What the public is chiefly interested in is that they shall stick.––Kansas City Journal.