Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1894 — A Famous Comic Weekly. [ARTICLE]

A Famous Comic Weekly.

It is now fifty years since the EHegende Blaetter was started in Munich. During the first ten or twelve years the Fliegqnde Blaetter did not appear regularly, but merely from time to time. The two publishers were Kaspar Braum, a clever artist, < endowed with a rich, /lowing vein qf humor, and Frederick Schneider, who was possessed of a tender and poetic soul The former also took charge of the artistic part, and the latter fixed the literary standard of the periodical Kaspar Braum died in 1879 and his partner in 1864.