Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1902 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

Everything lias been washed away in Texas except the big Democratic ma jority. Judge Jackson has an impression that the walking delegate ought to keep off the earth. The man who predicted a wet summer cannot be blannsl for walking about a trifle "chesty.” Western States will have to do something at once to discourage the amateur Tracy industry. Any inhabitants of Hayti who love quiet doubtless wish that Uncle Sam would drop around and assimilate the island. lowa is the first State to come to the front with a heavy frost. What was Kansas thinking of to let itself be beaten that way? It is strange the Bulgarians do not insist that the brigand who abducted Miss Stone be made secretary of the treasury instead of premier. Throe robbers dressisl ns policemen held up a in in on the North Side ami took his money away. They acted so natural that the victim really thought they were policemen. King Edward will believe all they told him about being a real king until he at* tempts t>> do a little governing independent of his ministers. Perhaps the striking electricians at the White House thought it best to adjust their differences before the President handed them a live wire. The American Smelting nnd Refining Coruyai y lias closed the Philadelphia ismelter at Pueblo, Colo. The reasons •given are a shortage of ore and the fact that a new mnelter has just been started at Murray, Utah.