Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1899 — The Comic of Side The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic of Side The News

It would appear that San Domingo is the real thing. It was not ties of affection that effected the railroad trust.When they talk of his resignation, Oom Paul winks —the other eye. Report from Guatemala says there is no revolution there. How dull! The Chicago baseball club has no difficulty in being beaten any old time. A veritable Monte Cristo seems the avenging angel of the Dreyfus case. It really seems incongruous that there should be all this heat over the Alaskan matter. A Boston man has sued for* divorce because his wife sold kisses at SIOO apiece at a charity fair. Strange it did not overwhelm him to think what he had been getting gratis. In eo far as hymn book royalties are concerned. Prof. Excel! and Dr. Schell did well and raised—about SIO,OOO. For reasons all can understand, the Turk will probably never be an assimilator or a gobbler. A story comes back from the fossil hunters that they have dug up a skeleton weighing 40,000 pounds. Those awful fossil fiers! A Paris paper announces that Paty de Clam will be turned loose. It is hoped that they will still keep the menagerie snakes caged up