Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1895 — The Comic Side of News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of News

Sam Jones rises to remark that “the whole manhood of America is trying to hunt up a soft job.” Sam seems to have found it. We have no desire to stir up trouble, but it does seem to us that the goldenrod poet is rather late in coming to the front this year. , A supposed case of smallpox in St. Louis has proved to be merely mosquito bites. Life in that town must be fully as pleasant as % summer pienic in sheol. An Indiana man is accused of having ten wives simultaneously. That fellow , evidently believes that “life’s grand sweet song” should be a feminine chorus. John Berger was arrested at Chicago for robbing a church contribution box by means of a piece of sticky fly paper. There are no flies on that method of raising fevenue. 1 The Michigan plan of shooting a suspected train robber to death and giving his friends a chance to prove an alibi for him afterward is rather startling, but it may prove efficacious. The grammarians are now worrying about the question whether the plural of “Blackfoot” should be “Blackfect” or “Blackfoots.” What’s the matter with “two Blackfoot Indians?” When Mrs. Langtry was over here before it wis understood th#t she was the sole support of a needy and deserving husband. If she gets a divorce now, who will care for Mr. Lily Langtry? The Buffalo Express, in describing a critical play*in a baseball game, remarks that “the fair patrons of the game wiped their eyes on the verge of hysterics.” The new woman ought not to wipe her eyes on such a thing as that.