Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1901 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

The glue manufacturers are organizing a trust. It probably will stick. A Russian student shot at Pobiedonostzeff. It doesn’t seem as though he could miss that. Reports from Washington indicate a lamentable lack of proofreading on the Logan statue. Of course talk is cheap, but no one would be surprised to see a telephone, trust organized. It seemft strange that those Ynneoim* bankers should commit suicide with Canadn so close at hand. The men who ore standing around the butcher shop In China waiting for a choice cut roust be getting weary. This is the season of the year when a Congressman Is likely to make enemies by sending the other fellows seeds. Women ore gradually demonstrating that they are worthy of the ballot. A Denver woman has just been arrested for illegal voting. The papers tell us that Britain lias “barred American beef.” Cheer up! The ban does not extend to American heiresses. The season is rapidly approaching when many of the towns which possess baseball teams will have jo begin mukirg explanations. The man who sow President McKinley’s train pass through is going to bo pretty numerous before the close of tlrer venial season. Two brothers were arrested in Chicago for passing money mode by their uncle. It was not their Uncle Sam who made it, hence the trouble. The Czar has put on his boiler plate shirt and is wearing a stove lid on his bosom. ' His pantaloons are expected from the foundry shortly. The fiymers will gladly continue to raise the corn if Mr. Phillips will agret to continue to raiae the price.'