Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1899 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

The soft coal trust is probably a hard combination. Pennsylvania may be known as the “Quayker” State. The $20,000,000 baking powder trust is rising into prominence. It is not surprising that the whisky tfust should be in high spirits. Why not call that man Agoncillo “Agony” to save time and printers’ ink? Aguinaldo’s last stands don’t last long enough for his congress to have a sitting. Aguinaldo’s “last stands” seem to be as frequent as Patti’s celebrated “farewell tours.” That steam pump trust has evidently been formed for the purpose of taking in suckers. Aguinaldo is- not only, game, but the process of bagging him is actually a dear hunt What makes Italy so mad is that she found the open door in China swung the wrong way. Wireless telegraphy has sustained a practical test Wireless politics, however, is still remote. It seems that the missionary business in Samoa is not only a vocation, but a provocation. Cojumbus County, N. C., has issued no marriage licenses during the past year. This is singular. ' It should be understood that the Samuel Jones elected Mayor of Toledo is not that other Sam Jones. Perhaps the Filipinos would have taken kindlier to , the talk of that $20,000,000 than to the address of the peace comjnissioners. An Illinois woman defeated her husband tar the office of school trustee. Of, that family she demonstrated herself the better half. A young woman I^. rer New York the offense. This horrifying fact should