Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1898 — The Comic Side OF The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side OF The News

Candles in the Klondike are $1.50 apiece, thus making the miners' light expense heavy. Young Mr. I.eiter has raised at least 0,000,000 bushels of wheat right in Chicago this whiter. William Terriss’ funornl drew a crowded house. Here's a valuable pointer for several actors in this country. The Emperor of China says he is “filled with forebodings.” He’s in great luck not to be filled with lead. v*« Very satisfactory trials have been recently made of a lifeboat made of pumice stone, which it was found would remain afloat with a load. Why not try jt on the Texas? Theatrical Note.—-Owing to tin - legal measures undertaken against him, Actor Itatcliffe will not appear again this souson in his private family drama, “The Wife Beater.” Frank Stanton thinks there is nothing remarkable In the fact that Nansen speaks English fluently for SI,OOO a night. A great many of us could do the same thing. The serial entertainment wo have with us always. The recurrent Durrunt incident being at.last permanently dosed it is quite fitting tliat the Andrec balloon should be discovered again. It appears that David B. Hill popped out of obscurity last'week just long enough to announce that lie is a Democrat niul then popped back without giving anybody a chance to prove it. Ssrony, the famous New York photographer, died a few months ago and his widow has just consoled herself with his successor. Barony's negatives evidently were better developed than his wife’s.