Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1900 — The Comic Side OF The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side OF The News

The chain trust should advertise for missing links. The Duke of Marlborough has penetrated to Bloemfontein. Still the war goes on! Polecat skins are barred from the mails. This is certainly the decision of common scents. This is the time of year when some men talk through th.- hats they expect to cast away after election. Let us ho|>e that the announcement of Dewey's candidacy will not start off the friends of Schley, and Sampson into a controversy as to which should be named for second place. A horse bit a piece of flesh out of the arm of a Kansastwoman the other day. It has been decided that the owner of the horse shall pay her S4B. His only recourse is to take it out of the animal's hide. A Chicago young women has taken a vow in which she promises silence tw4n-ty-three hours out. of the day. In all kindness, it must' i>e said that the majority of her sex are astonished at th'e proposition. A Milwaukee girl who was married foi fun two years ago now wants a divorce. It would be funny if she shouldn't.