Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1898 — The Comic Side of The News. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News.

In that Kentucky entertainment with cards where eight people were killed somebody surely played the deuce. Senators are worrying a good deal just now over their fences, and constituents arc worrying over senatorial offenses. A Georgia postmaster who objected to the criticism of his management of the olllce got his gun and winged his critic. Detroit has a bignmist with eight wives, and the authorities are actually c&nsid. ering the infliction of further punishment. A Washington special says: “Cables from llavann declare that the city is ns quiet us Philadelphia.” Perhaps they’re all dead. 8. D. Niekum of Indiana claims to have invented a light that will burn forever without costing a cent. He’s the onlyman on earth prepared to fight the Standard Oil Company. A 16-year-old girl lias been expelled from the St. Douis public schools because she is married. This is a mistake; any 16-year-old wife clearly needs know more than she does. The press censorship iD Havana is now so strict that American war correspondents who hope to keep np with the game are compelled to cable the details of riotous outbreaks they occur. • The visit of the battleship Maine to Havana was merely the movement of a pawn on the international chess board, but it .may cause Spain to sacrifice a casjUe to prevent the checkmate of a king.