Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1898 — CURRENT COMMENT [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT

Sihce their pigtails are’ safe for some time to come the Chinese have ceased to squeal.—Pittsburg Post. The emancipated Cubans are reported to be waiting with the utmost patience for the millennium to come to them. — Philadelphia Ledger. Denmark's queen died of old age. If all the European monarchs could be sure of such a fate they would doubtless rest easier.—Boston Globe. It ought to be understood at the start that the battleship Missouri is not to be christened with a bottle of St. Louis 30cent champagne, —Kansas City Journal. Whatever the facts about the Chinese Emperor and European clothes, the result shows what may happen in households when women begin to wear the breeches, —Philadelphia Times. The slowness 'with which the facts regarding the death of the emperor of Chita come to light would indicate that the Kansas City police are working on the ease, —Kansas City Journal. Only about one-fourth of Canada's citizens voted on the prohibition question. It looks as if lining up to the bar of public opinion in this matter had no charms for them. —Philadelphia Times. The Announcement that our peace commissioners spent their time Sunday in Paris by going to meeting would rather seem to show that they haven't yet got quite acclimated.—Boston Herald. Hobson’s Latest Victory. Hobson has evened up matters. He sank the Merrimac, and now he has raised the Maria Teresa to the surface. — Kansas City Star. Now that the Maria Teresa is on top of the water again, waving the Stars and Stripes, she may be expected to live down her past.—Chicago Record. Lieut. Hobson’s father will note with much satisfaction that the young man has imparted some of his good raising to the Maria Teresa.—Chicago Tribune. Lieut. Hobson has shown that he has constructive, or conservative, as well as destructive ability by the recovery of the Infanta Maria Teresa.—Philadelphia Times. China’s Royal Puppet. Now that the Emperor of China has been martyred, it is easier to think of him as a true reformer.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. Results in his case would go to show that the Emperor of China's drinking doesn’t at all presuppose having a royal time,—Philadelphia Times. The young Emperor of China, it seems, was not killed, but merely jerked off the perch. But it must have made his teeth chatter.—Kansas City Journal. If the Emperor of China is not dead it ia not the fault of those who hatched the various schemes that have l»een reported for, his taking off.—Cleveland Leader. It is now reported that the Emperor of China and his aunt, the Dowager Empress, are living happily together, and that it was only six advisers of h!s Imperial Highness whom the worthy lady had assassinated. Thus is Tsi An saved tom disgrace.- -Buffalo Exprcsa,