Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1898 — A Good Reason for Wonder. [ARTICLE]

A Good Reason for Wonder.

The country editor laid down with great impatience the great city daily that he was reading in the bosom of bin family, and exclaimed'; “Mighty funny!" , “What is funny, John?” “Why, this here paper has this para* graph: “Eva Hollis-Whoppcr, the charming soulnette, hns just purchased a new bulldog.” “Such items arc quite common ip tho i big papers, John.” “Yes, l know It; but why do they laugh nt me for publishing the information that Squire Jim llrown hns painted his barn?” Cincinnati Enquirer. v