Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1899 — CURRENT COMMENT [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT

Any old whistle would answer as well, Col. Aguinaldo, when a man wants to whistle to keep up his Plain Dealer. We hasten to assume the groundhog that he has been vindicated. Now let us have something like good weather.—Omaha World-Herald. Probably Mr. Molineux would have been happier had he employed a typewriter to address his bromo-seltzer packages.—Boston Herald. Mr. Roosevelt’s last magazine contribution treats of a bullet that missed him. Yet Mr. Roosevelt has never prided himself on his dodging ability.—Washington Post. That mothers’ convention in Washington is in favor of looser corsets. This is in line with the claim of other women that they’re too much held in.—Philadelphia Times. ■Admitting the appropriations of Congress are something stupendous, some may say the size of the American eagle presupposes a big bill.—Philadelphia Times. x Billion dollar Congresses are no longer a novelty. The late one exceeded that limit to such an extent that it looks like a very modest sum for the national expenses of a year.—Boston Globe, Apropos of our new holiday, the Boston Transcript rises to remark that “the Ist of May is more likely to be frosty than dewey.” But not in the vicinity of Manils.—Philadelphia Ledger. • ■ ■ - ■’ ,