Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1899 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

Broom com has advanced to SIOO per ton. Money stalks. The season of the chrysanthemum comes with the society buds. Rough Rider Rhodes doubtless has the idea that diamonds are trumps. Orange Free State certainly takes the prize for a yellow statesmanship. Darkest Africa is not being made any lighter by the present state of her civilization. Oom Paul will have to cut down his expenses if be feeds all the captured British weU. Another big IlHnois-Indiana-Ohio oM trust is reported—more of the stuff on the waters, as it were. It is becoming apparent that those Boer fanners have bad some previous acquaintance with the sheH game. In the event of suspended railways there would seem to be no hope for rural cows with suicidal ambitions. Speaking of war articles for the magazines few up to date have made as mudk noise as that lyddite in South Africa.