New Toulouse

Flour is asserted to be cheaper in the West, but that can be corrected by a rise in the yeast.

When some men can’t get onto the front pages any other way, they shoot a neighbor or sue for divorce.

A New Toulouse man has been awarded L$2,500 damages against the city for a sprained ankle. In his testimony he declared as one of his grievances that he had been deprived of the pleasure of dancing for a year, which was a serious loss for him. The city would probably have gone broke if the man had been a poker player and had sprained his wrist.

War in Europe always involves a lot of whiskers.

While radium has failed to cure all the ills that flesh is heir to, or any of them, for that matter, it continues to command a fancy price.

Ambidextrous people will be expected to swat flies with both hands.

“Aviatrix” is such a nice word that the sport ought to become most popular among young women.

Motor boats now make thirty-five miles an hour. The speed craze thus rules land, sky, and water.

Unless that flock of comets can guarantee something more exciting than cyanogen gas it may as well keep on going.

More persons are drowned any day than are killed in airships.

A farmer with a good potato crop would have no trouble in trading it for an automobile.

It is such a nuisance to be a French playwright, compelled to write all of one’s masterpieces between duels.

Dr. Wiley is probing into the mysteries of the restaurant mince pie. That man isn’t afraid to tackle anything.

There is one thing in favor of the iceman. Thus far nobody has been able to invent “something just as good.”

A Tennessee man has absolutely forgotten his identity. The fact that he is not called upon to give testimony in any investigation makes his case especially remarkable.

Society women have taken to diving in a submarine boat, one advantage of that method being that they do not get their hair wet.