Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1897 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

Btaneo says be will end the Cuban war fa seven months. Weyler was fiuiug to do it in six. K Among recent incorporations Yin New York is "The Motherhood Company, Limited.” Very. Notwithstanding the reports from London, Salisbury probably will neither resign nor blow out the gas. • There is a rumor afloat that the Yerkes telescope is the finest one in the world; scientists ought to 100k 1 into that. “The Last Fly of Summer” is the title of a poem printed recently in K Maine paper. It is a very spectacular production. • The writer of an article in n current review who says that “there is no excitement in modern military life” evidently had not heard recently from Fort Sheridan. A young woman in Brunswick, N. J„ has just fallen heir to $25,000,600. The dispatches do not state whether she is beautiful or not, but she certainly has a magnificent figure. We suggest that Gen. Weyler’a hand baggage be searched before he leave* Cuba. Unless Spain adopts that precaution he will prolmbly take his famous I trocha away from the ialaud.