Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1899 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

With beer selling at 40 cents a pint In Havana it must take a lot of money to accumulate jags enough to. raise a riot It begins to look as if the insurgents in the Philippines were going to settle Aguinaldo's career without the help of willing allies. Ex-Queen Lil wants $60,000,000 for the loss of her crown, and in spite of her complexion she is not keeping dark about tt, either. / • In taking home the dust of Columbus the Dons, impecunjous as they are, have proved that there is more than one way to “raise the dust.” Hall Caine says he loves America and wants Americans to entertain a like feeling toward him. And yet he purposes writing a book about us. The eager air with which the Spaniards are hunting for the man who they wrecked the Maine is not indicative of a desire to find the man who wrecked the Maine. An Omaha judge has decided that poker is not a gambling game. If that august official has a system sure to win he can add to the gaycty of this nation by making it public. Gideon Marsh, the bank wrecking president of the Philadelphia Keystone Bank, has been sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary. There areothcra who ought to join Gideon’s band.