Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1901 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

The lynching belt seems to be slowly moving northward. If the British can’t capture De Wet they can’t lose him, either. Li-Hung-Chang has the grip, but it is not the one he lost some months ago. The Boer scheme is said to be to keep on fighting whether the war is over or not. It is quite evident that Jessie Morri son is lucky that the jury was not composed of women. The ship subsidy bill, which seemed to be sailing in smooth water, has apparantly struck au uncharted reef. Castellahe no doubt can’t see why George Gould doesn’t sell a railroad Qr two and pay his sister’s husband’s debts. Gen. Mercier thinks it would be easy to invade England and Napoleon HI thought it would be a regular picnic to whip Germany. Perhaps the reason the city of Wash ington does not look its age is that it hat spent the whole of the 100 years of its life at the public crib.

Justice Andrews, Supreme Court, New York, decides that the $2,000,000 personal estate of William Waldorf Astor was illegally taxed In New York, owing to Astor now beiag a resident of England. Mrs. Grace Robinson, arrested al (Cleveland, Ohio, charged with fleeing from Montana with $50,000 worth ol bonds belonging to her husband, was ro based.