Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — The Comic Side The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side The News

. Gladstone having retired from politics he seems to have takgn majority With him. Arizona comes to the front with a petrified human heart. That's mighty hard to beat. Mrs. Frank Leslie is coming home again. There will be general curiosity to learn his name. Michigan has decided that for judicial purposes nn oath administered by telephone is binding. decision seems to be sound. Cincinnati has a woman's street-clean-ing brigade. ’Tis woman who rules the world, and the broom is oftentimes her weapon. Speaking of the silver movement the Chattanooga Times refers to “the sober second thought in Kentucky.” Is there any such thing? An Anrd wolf in the New Yjork zoological garden's “happy family" made a meal of three tcrrier*pups the other day. That was indeed Aard. The rubber trust announces that it will materially raise prices Sept. 1. In other words it purposes to substitute an “o’* for the “u” in its name. . For the first time in five years Kansas and Nebraska have all all the rain they want. This is also the first year that “rainmakers” have kept out of those States. A New York paper demands “some sort of invention which will make shipwrecks safe.” That isn’t a bad idea. But after it is secured we give notice now that we shall rise and demand an invention to make railway wrecks enjoyable.