The Miller Press

Miller Press
:: By J. A. Busfield

What would a fair be without an airship?

This year there will be no counting the losses, but a piling up of profits.

Always bear in mind that there is no spot on earth east of the north pole.

Now the American aviator will leave upon the cirrus clouds his fresh tobacco stain.

Many persons are satisfied to know that the comet is there without waiting up nights to see it.

California should preserve its big trees from forest fires and make the lumber trust forever jealous.

It is confusing to say that the original college widow is dead. Originality is the long suit of all of them.

If people are not more careful the death strip is going to interfere seriously with our census prospects.

Though science denies that there are equinoctial storms they have a way of coming along about that time.

France is going to tax foreign automobiles brought in for pleasure runs, which may serve to call attention to the good roads of Germany and Spain.

Bugs are eating the gum off the stamps in Washington. It may be necessary to make an appropriation to feed the bugs in order to save the stamps.

Marrying a slightly shelf-worn European nobleman to a large package of American dollars is a job which Cupid might well be glad to turn over to a syndicate.

A man in a Connecticut town was sent to jail for persistently whistling the same popular tune. That long abused and long-suffering worm, the public, has turned at last.

A fountain pen in a New York man's pocket stopped a bullet and saved his life.

Most fountain pens destroy all chances of the future life, with the average-tempered man.

California is thinking of dividing itself into two states of normal size.

This plan if carried out will give to the world the inestimable blessing of two distinct varieties of "native sons."

Gulf ports are gaining in export trade faster than are Atlantic coast ports, wholly regardless of the perfectly good theory that lines of traffic are foreordained to run only east and west.

It is reported by the minister of the treasury that Castro in the last part of his term took a million and a half of dollars from the national treasury.

No wonder he was reluctant to lose such a good thing.

In giving up his claims to the throne of Portugal to wed an American heiress, the prince of Braganza sacrifices a very pale shadow to a beautiful and substantial reality. So the sacrifice is not as harrowing as it sounds.

That Uncle Sam turns out a high grade of marksmen is evident from the experience of the Atlantic fleet.

When practice with the big guns has to be suspended because the targets have been shot to pieces the fact furnishes strong evidence that there would be straight shooting in battle.

New progress brings new dangers.

The surgeon of the French warship Descartes attributes eczema and eye troubles to the use of wireless telegraphy. The eczema has appeared on the faces and hands of the seamen told off to work the apparatus. Therefore the surgeon recommends that in future use of the wireless apparatus precautions be taken to protect these parts of the body.

Here is another discovery, and it has been made at a distance farther than the north pole. Observations by Prof. Percival Lowell, the Harvard astronomer, convince him that there is oxygen in the atmosphere of Mars, and from this he concludes that it is possible for life to exist on that planet as well as on the earth. Here is a chance for real distinction. What airship inventor will fly to Mars and find out all about it?

The September report of the department of agriculture renews assurance that the leading grain crops will be large. The prospects are that the wheat yield will be 714,302,000 bushels, against 664,604,000 last year, while corn is put down at 2,648,846,000, as compared with 2,668,651,000 in 1908. Other figures are: Oats, 1909, 1,008,000,000 bushels, 1908, 807,156,000 bushels; rye, 1909, 31,066,000 bushels; 1908 31,851,000 bushels; barley, 1909, 170,648,000 bushels; 1908, 166,756,000 bushels.

The public seems to have been educated into believing that rabies must inevitably follow a dog bite. With the victim in such a frame of mind, his body, enfeebled by terror, becomes an easier prey.

The New York-state forest commissioner is establishing telephone lines in the Adirondacks for the use of fire wardens. In extinguishing forest fires as well as others much depends upon getting an early start. The telephones are likely to more than...