Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1898 — CURRENT COMMENT [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT

The Chicago streets were so sloppy that the bicycle parade had to go down on the Chicago river.—St. Paul Dispatch. “Who owns America?” asks a Colorado paper. Admiral Dewey will just as soon as lie comes home.—Salt Lake Herald. If Spain thinks we are going to pay for the fun of whipping her she must first show where the fun came in.—Philadelphia Ledger. While tlie Philippine* arc this side the equator, Spain is acting over our demand for them as though struck below the belt. —Philadelphia Times. The singular thing about that gas explosion in the capitol at Washington was that Congress was not in session.—Memphis Commercial-Appeal. The motive of the Supreme Court's anticombination decision appears to be that when railroads fall out the public gets a ehaqce.—Philadelphia Ledger. The congregation of the Gospel Tabernacle. New York, swept by eniotion, gave $112,000 for missionary work. Surely that was a great sweepstakes.—Salt Lake Herald. Now they say that Emperor William went to tlie Holy Laud merely because he wished to go. That is a reasop worthy of a good American citizen. Philadelphia Ledger. Much ns they think of the sex, many men not too well off arc l< ss interested in American girls growing taller I hit n in being generally so short themselves. Philadelphia Tinies. John D. Rockefeller snys he is only a poor servant of the Standard <>il trust. He is ih<* kind of humble poverty that one could endure were one compelled to.- Sult Lake Herald. It is reported that an eight-hour move nicnt has already boon started.in Porto Itico. Is this not proof enough that our new wards will not be slow in adopting American ideas? —Boston Globe.' The members of the Alabama mob that lynched the wrong mini have made an abject apology to bis family. This goes to show that mobs nro generally composed of real “gents.”- Washington Post.