Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1897 — Paragraphs with Points. [ARTICLE]

Paragraphs with Points.

Europe is long on war and short on crops. Prince Henri Jailed to throw the soup into Turin. Wheat is rising so rapidly that flour needs no yeast powder. England would own the world if she were allowed to make i.ts maps. Senor Sagasta is counting his Cuban chickens without any regard to the contingencies that may impede their incubation. Either Weyler is growing more fiendish or the stories told about him are more vindictive, and either hypothesis seems untenable. Truth to tell, we all know people who ought to go to Alaska, but don’t. If Andree returns alive, after this long absence, his book will have an enormous sale. Some 2,500 cigarette makers are out of employment in New York. It is believed a couple of hundred thousand cigarette smokers are also out of employment. Chicago declines to be scared by the prediction that 1,000 years hence she will be sunk beneath the waters of Lake Michigan. She expects to have Lake Michigan confined in the sub-cellar by that time