Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1897 — CURRENT. COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT. COMMENT.

Those who wish the climatic effect and cannot afford to go to Alaska may fall in with Charlotte Smith’s scheme and marry Boston girls.—Chicago Record. Somebody has begun again the symposium on “Why Men Don’t Marry.” In the case of a good many men, why not ask the girls?—Chicago Record. It is well that Spain now understan Is that we are not prepared to talk commercial questions with her until that business of Weylerism is settled. —New York Sun. If Spain banishes all her anarchists, as she now proposes to do, the next census may show a significant decrease in the Spanish population.—New York Mail and Express. A careful study of the reports from Dyea and Skaguay should be sufficient to convince anyone that the only safe trail is the water route back to civilizatioo. — Chicago Post. Greece’® deffiand for war with Turkey is not as unanimous as it was a few months ago. The chase home has evidently left a sore place in the Grecian mind.— Baltimore News.