Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1884 — An Esteemed Contemporary. [ARTICLE]

An Es teemed Contemporary.

Chicago News. The -inxiraarrpbEs Smtinel, which is . edited i-v an obelisk who recently celebrated lis ~i assures us, that the defeat of the Democratic tariff bill means nothing—that it was merely a little hostile zephyr which temporarily ruffled the Demooyatio temper. The venerable editor of the Sentinel is evi- . w-Jf* . v dently a lineal descendant of the man who declined to go aboard Noah’s ark at the time of the high water, pleading as an excuse his belief that it wasn’t going to be “very much of a shower, anyhow.”