Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1897 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

Blanco says he will end the Cuban war in seven months. Weyler was going to dc lt in six. Among recent incorporations in Nev York is “The Motherhood Company, Limited.” Very. Notwithstanding the reports from London, Salisbury probably will neither resign nor blow out the gas. There is a rnmor afloat that the Yerkes telescope is the finest one in the world; scientists ought to look into that. “The Last Fly of Summer” is the title of a poem printed recently in a Maine paper. It is a very spectacular production. The writer of an nrticlo in a current review who says that “there is no excitement in modern military life” evidently had not heard recently from Fort Sheridan. A young woman in Brunswick, N. .T., has just fallen heir to $25,009,000. 'The dispatches do not state whether she is beautiful or not, but she certainly has a magnificent figure. We suggest that Gen. Weyler’s hand baggage be searched before he leaves Cuba. Unless Spain adopts that precaution he will probably take his famous troclia away from the island. Luetgert says “the suspense was terrible.” The suspense might have been worse. Of course a great many families have skeletons in the closets, but comparatively few have sesamoid* in u vat. It is to be hoped that during all this extended investigation into bones, chemicals, and rporality the Loutgert jury will not overlook the minor issue: Is the defendant guilty of murder? The medical profession itself should take up in earnest the cry for reform in the method of obtaining expert testimony in court. The exhibition in the Luetgcr. case at Chicago was a disgrace to the cruft