Hair tonic, declares the Washington Chief of Police, is growing in popularity as a beverage. The danger of this habit has been widely advertised by the sad case of a Chicago man who drank three shampoo cocktails and afterwards swallowed a hair in his soup.
The mystery of the City gentleman who has been noticed lately going up to public telephones and getting immediate answers is now solved. It appears that he is a well-known ventriloquist with a weakness for practical jokes.
"I never ordered it—and I won't pay for it."
"According to the latest census returns, the population of New York City is now £5,621,000."—Indian Paper.
In dollars, of course, it would be considerably more.