Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad officials have announced that every train on the entire system will be prohibited from selling liquors.
The Only Way.
“What a lively baby!” said Brannigan. “Have ye had his picture took yet?”
“Not yet,” said his proud father. “I’ve tried to, but afther an hour’s lost labor the photographer advised us to go to a movin’-picture studio!”
Crosses Ocean for “Story.”
Eliezer Ben Jehuda, editor of the Haor, a newspaper published in Jerusalem, has arrived in New York from Patras. Ship-news reporters who welcomed him at the pier were beset by mingled emotions when they learned that the Haor has four editions a year and no extras.
The Haor means in English, “The Light.” Mr. Jehuda has come to New York on a rush assignment, and he was gravely concerned lest he would not get his story in for the October edition.
It was learned there are no vacancies on the editorial, reportorial, or business staff of the Haor.
He Poisons Milk to Get One Dollar.
John Kelly, eleven years old, admitted in the Brooklyn children’s court, Brooklyn, N. Y., that he had put a quantity of lye in a bottle of milk for the use of his eighty-one-year-old grandmother, with whom he lived. “I only wanted to make her sick so she would have to go to bed,” he explained. “That would give me a chance to go through the house and get hold of some money. I needed a dollar awful bad.”