Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — CURRENT COMMENT [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT

It turns out that the lasi Arizona man appointed to office is an Ohio man.— Washington Post. Spain has reached that trying and distressing jjoint where she can neither quit nor keep on with safety.—Kansas City Journal. Gen. Miles is about to start for home, probably for the purpose of having a new supply of photographs taken. —Cleveland Leader. Of course, Greece is in mourning. The moral of it seems to be that it is better not to be too bumptious tbun to be sorry.—. Boston Herald. Is it possible there is no way to satisfy the Mikado but to call him into the woodshed for an interview wilb the old manl —Chicago Tribune. If Greece did more burning of gunpowder at critical moments and less burning of treaties, she would occupy n lesi pitiable position 1n the eyes of the nations —New York Press?V Cleo de Merode will have no king in hei train while in this country, but she can catch any number of jacks if she considers them worthy of her bait.—San Francisco Examiner. The six great powers of Europe are stilLengaged in pacificating the Turk, who will submit to it «o long as It continues profitable to be pacificated.—Cincinnati Gomnertfi&l Tribane.