February

Capt Chapman has been vindicated. Now let the party of revelers that he raided receive proper punishment.

Now that Pennsylvania has lost a million-dollar state house, everybody is saying that all public buildings should be fireproof. This thing always manages to get said after it is too late.

Eggs are very firm in the Boston market -- especially cold storage eggs immediately after they are taken out.

New Haven has joined the procession of cities that are being supplied with dollar gas, and is to have both heating and lighting gas. Dollar gas seems to be marching steadily to victory.

When Boston's new horseless fire engine makes its first trip through the street a month or so from now, everybody is sure to stop and look.

Here's what the school children sing nowadays in Brooklyn, to the tune of ``Yankee Doodle:''

Do not spit upon the street,
In cars or public places;
This is far from being neat, 
And leaves unwholesome traces.

Dread disease is spread about
By such selfish doing;
We will try to put to rout
Smoking, spitting chewing

The rising generation in one city, at least, will stand in need of no street car placards concerning sputum.

Massachusetts does not want to see chain gangs of convicts working on its highways, subways or Cape Cod canals.

The man who loses his money in a square game of poker cannot recover it, according to a decision of a New York jury this week, even though his opponent is a politician.

Business was too lively to be comfortable in the store of the Cornhill gunsmiths Wednesday evening. Gunpowder seems to have no discretion.

``Society'' is perhaps the most used word in the English language just now, and yet who would like to undertake to give an intelligible definition of it?

At the latest meeting of the American author's guild, the members who took part were Mrs Emily Dickey Beery, Mrs. S Almon Hersley, Dr. Edward O. Flagg and Miss S. M. Corey -- names familiar, of course, to everyone conversant with the best in American literature.

The fact that St Valentine's day comes on Sunday this year will undoubtedly reduce the doorbell ringing nuisance some.

If Lincoln were alive today he would be only 88 years old.