Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1902 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

It is a mistake to think that “reiehstag” is German for “rough house.” It will be a lucky anti-trust bill that comes out of the committee of Congress with its stinger intact. Corner lots in Medicine Ilat are hardly at a premium these days; in fact, they arc away below zero. Strong nnd Yohe have returned to New York, but ns yet the fumigation officials have done nothing about it. If the isthmus of Panama is so nnheaithful it may be necessary to boil tho* water in the new ship canal before using it. Dr. Lorenz is different from some other physicians with whom you may have a casual acquaintance, lie refused a. ? 10.000 fee. Next yenor when the furnters visit the fat stock show in Chicago it is to behoped that the town will not burn so many of them. Perhaps when science has advanced n little farther we shall be able to harnessMount I’elee and make it do the greater part of the world’s work. Congress could well alford to adjourn* for a day out of respect for the memory of Tom Reed, for he showed it how to* keep from wasting time. By observing closely the case of Vervesueia the Sultan of Turkey can see what ’he would) experience if it were equally safe for creditors to go guunnig for him. About 500.000 in London nr* idle and looking fo/work. This is a year in which England could use something like n Boer war to employ its surplus population. Macaroni wheat can be grown her* successfully, according to the Secretary of Agriculture. What sport it would bo for the Kansas breezes playfully to skip through the long holes! Assistant Postmaster General Maddca will probably have the members of the Court of Appeals arrested for leze majesty for reversing one of hie decisions in rigard to second-class mail matter.