Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1898 — PULSE Of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PULSE Of the PRESS

They say Harvard plays poor hockey. Probably she is rather more familiar with hie, haee, hockey.—Boston Herald. If Jim Corbett means it let him step up and register at that Washington hotel where Senator Mason was stopped.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Mr. Edison, Jr., gives notice that he is alwHit to harness the sea. He would probably have better success with a couple of hays.—Kansas City Journal. The Eastern textile strike is unchanged. The bosses say the wage cut must prevail beenuso at the present rate ten mills don’t make a cent. —Philadelphia Times. If those imported reindeer are not needed for Klondike, the Government might feed them over till next fall nnd dispose of them to Santa Claus. —Kansas City Journal. Having gone to the trouble and expense of meeting so many nice people abroad, it is not strange that Gen. Miles doesn’t feel like turning in and fighting them. —Washington Post. It may be true that Mrs. Nack, the accomplice of murderer Thorn, is suffering from heart trouble, but most people will be surprised to learn that the woman has a heart. The Virginia Legislature proposes to tax dogs and bachelors. Evidently the Virginia legislators look upon "bachelors as men who have gone to the dogs.—Salt Lake Herald. Perhaps Senator Mason thinks that the simplest way to get rid of the rival sources of American humor, the hotel clerk in particular, is to knock them out.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. It is being urged now ns a popular consideration in behalf of Greater New York that citizens of limited means can go to the country this summer without leaving the city.—Houston Post. At its recent meeting the sugar trust held back from division some $32,000,000 in profits as a “working fund.” What kind of a scheme is it going to “work” now?—Salt Lake Herald. Through some unaccountable oversight the Philadelphia aldermen defeated an ordinance providing for a loan of $11,000,000. Is the Philadelphia nldermnn losing his cunning?—Washington Post. The arrival of German, British .and French warships along with the Maine indicates that the Havana mobs had just as well postpone any contemplated hot times in the old town. —Atlanta Constitution. Chicago is being chnrged with being for “sin and silver,” and soon some Westerner will stigmatize New Yorkers as being grovelers for gold. The alliteration argument works all sorts of ways.—Boston Globe. Mary Elizabeth Lease pVeached in New York on Sunday, and the sum and substance of her sermon was that the poor human caterpillar on the social cabbage is multiplying more rapidly than the cabbage.—Boston Herald.