January

The bill collector seems to be about the only one who keeps up the old custom of making New Year's calls.

The humorists in New York have evidently tired of writing jokes about cable and elevated cars and some are now turning their attention to electric cars. As the average New Yorker will have to journey to Brooklyn if he wishes to appreciate the jokes, these efforts of the funny men are apt to be failures.

It is barely possible that Maine would have less cause for complaint regarding her country schools if the average salary of the teachers was higher.

Here's hoping that Gov Black of New York, inaugurated yesterday, will prove himself ``a white man.''

It is very hard to mark over 1896 into 1897, and do it so that the change won't show.

Four years more of the nineteenth century - not three.

Prof. Norton says that poetry cannot be taught, but he seems to think that architecture, which has been defined as frozen poetry, can.

The New York News has discovered that the unwillingness of women to remove their hats in the theaters arises from the fact that they themselves would be unable to see the play if they held them in their laps.

The three new carriages -- a landau, a brougham and a cabriolet -- Which President McKinley has ordered in Chicago, will cost about $5000, and will be finished in green. Now will there be a howl of protest?

When the expected consignment of Florida strawberries gets in this week, you can invest 1.25 in a box of berries that you can dispose of at a meal, or in a book that will last you for 20 years.

Lawyers and hotel keepers in North Dakota may be counted on to fight the bill introduced in the legislature making one year the lowest limit of residence in the state preparatory to obtaining a divorce.

The anniversary of Gen. Robert E. Lee's birthday Tuesday will be celebrated in several southern states.

The West End road isn't praying for snow, whoever else may be.