Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1898 — The Comic side The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic side The News

This is a good time for Crete to be discreet. Crete seems to be having a regular Cuba of a time. The “starving reconcent rado” seems to have chewed up his tag. The khalifa's sad but glorious days seem to come early in the fall. Zola is wise in launching his lecture tour before Dreyfus begins his. It looks now as if Col. Paty du Clam had been caught between bases. For once the Earl Li bird in China seems to have got the worst of it. In time of war the army needs more "rod croes" and not quite so much "red tape." Lovers of oysters are practicing the bivalve yell: "Oysters!' Oysters! ’Raw, 'Raw, ’Raw!” Cecil Rhodes has been suspiciously quiet of late. Who is behind this latest good Rhodes movement? None of the Spanish ships sunk nt Manila enn be raised. Dewey's work never has to be done twice. When Pnndo and Torn) and Sagasta meet in Madrid the kinetoscope privilege will be worth n small fortune. Uncle Sam’s soldiers at Manila will not suffer from homesickness. They have made themselves right at home there. The war in Cuba has developed a pretty big bill, but Gen. Shafter knows one big Bill which it reduced about sixty pounds. K Curl Schurz is a good advocate for the cause of the anti-imperialists. Therefore, those people w«H*hi D well to keep their Schurz on.