Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1916 — A Galley o’ Fun! [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Galley o’ Fun!

INTREPID. Our forces comprised twenty thousand women, as against the enemy’s thirty .thousand, but we were not dismayed. Indeed, when we saw their scouts hovering near, we brought them to camp and showed them everything. "Go!” quoth we, "and tell your gen- ▲ little later these scouts, on foaming steeds, drew up at their own headquarters. "Such bravery!” they exclaimed, breathlessly. "Those women yonder all have big feet, yet they wear white shoes without blenching!" Whereupon the enemy with terror tugging at their hearts, broke and fled in confusion. DOUBLY WORBB. Lord Fitonoodle—You are afraid the suffragettes will get worse? Shades of Pitt, they can’t, man! They are like wild beasts now. The Prime Minister—Yea, but supposing one of the American popular evangelists would coms over and they should get religion? HIGH. First Trustee—But this ancient institution of learning will fail unless something is done. Second Trustee —True, but what can we do? We have already raised the tuition until it is almost one per cent of the fraternity fees. HAD LOTS OF During his last Illness Curran, the great Irish wit, was one day told by his medical attendant that he seemed to cough with more difficulty than he had done the previous day. “That’s odd enough," replied the famous Irishman, "because I’ve been practicing all night.”

Couldn’t Lie Down. At a charge of the Zouaves the commandant suddenly cried out. "Lie down!" as a hail of German shells came over them. They all dropped but one. * "Nom de Dieu, lie down!” the lieu- ’ tenant-colonel out, furiously, to the one man. Thia Zouave tapped his large pock- > et and called back to his chief; "My lieutenant, I can’t; I’ve got , a quart bottle full of wine in here and it hasn’t any cork in it”