Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1895 — The Comic Side OF The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side OF The News

Holmes has just finished his life—one of them; will justice finish the other? Holmes says that the suspense; is killing him. He probably will be killed that way. It strikes us that the bidding on the Duke of Marlborough is altogether too slow. Look him over, girls. Yachting costs Willie K. Vanderbilt $160,000 a year, and it is said that the yacht isn't his most‘'expensive plaything, either. A Pennsylvania man scared his wife into speaking' for the first time in seven years the other night. No cause is assigned for the rash act. A current news note says that “Donna Cousinp of Ohili, who is worth $200,000,000, is now well on in years." We should say she is also pretty well off. If this bloomer wedding business continues, some of these days n near-sighted parson will probably hitch two bicycle men or two new women together. New York has decided that the new woman may ride horseback “man fashion” if she chooses to do so. This certainly is astride in the right direction. In June Campos issued a proclamation said “the war is now ended;” in August he said, “Cuba cannot be conquered” Somebody must have told him. The Princess Colonna, nee Mackay, has got rid of her titled husband by paying him SI,OOO a month for life. That’s a pretty stiff price, but it's worth every cent of it.. “The movement toward the cities has made less farmers,” remarks the Boston Globe. We haven’t noticed ifr; there are fewer farmers, but they seem to be fully ss large as ever. * "As we are a gallanf nation it Is not permissible to overlook the ladies," says the Han Francisco Argonaut Bosh! Gallantry or no gallantry, we think ths theater hat should go. An Ohio woman who has been speechleas for six years wav cured the other -sight by hjvaotiMn. There can be -no dbubt About it; hypnotism certainly is a vary dangti power to fool with