Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1897 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

After all. the ideal foot-ball colors are black and blue. The health department of Baltimore wants kissing abolished “on the fround that it is a public menace.” Why public? The country hears less of Genejpl Miles since he came home than when he was abroad. Ho was more popular when he was Miles away. A St. Louis newspaper contains an advertisement reading us follows: “Wanted: A woman to cook.” Is this a result of the Luetgert trial? Kansas women are setting the fashion of removing the hat upon entering church. It is an old custom to avoid the hat at church services. And now it appears that some designing rascal has been swindling the Indiana farmers by charging exorbitant prices for kernels from an enr of corn of mammoth size, which has been manufactured by neatly joining together several sections of different cobs. As the swindle already has been perpetrated and the swindler is at large and unknown, nothing remains to be done by the victims except to acknowledge the corn.