Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — The Comic Side The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side The News

The wheat crop is the only thing we can recall that is worth most when there are flies on it. There are no swear words in the Japenese language. How does Japan express.her opinions of Russia just now? A Brooklyn church has built a stable for the bicycles of its congregation, thus laying the path to heaven via Wheeling. There is fame and fortune ahead for the horticulturist who succeeds in crossing the Georgia watermelon with Jamaica ginger. John L. Sullivan says be wants to open a hotel. He might have owned a few hotels before this if he hadn't opened quite so many things with a corkscrew. Campos has ordered 25,000 more troops from Spain. Probably he has just found out that three or four American correspondents have joined the insurgents. 7 Nearly ail the important iron furnaces in Pennsylvania have advanced wages 10 per cent recently. They are evidently driving their pigs to the right market. The defaulting ex-treasurer of-*South Dakota should at least express regret that the authorities have been put to so much trouble in preparing a reception for him. A Springfield bicyclist claims that a snake bit the tire of this wheels and burst it. It is remarkable that any man who sees such things could keep in his bicycle saddle. “What makes Chicago the healthiest ol cities?” inquires the Times-Herald. Precisely the tame thing which makes it ths most moral and religious of cities. Anybody can guess it