Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1902 — The Comic Side OF The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side OF The News

While corn goes up corn juice continues to ao down. Unfortunately not a few of us knew, of the money stringency merely by feeling in our pockets. President Roosevelt is keeping in exer-{ else by playing lawn tennis. Nobody baa caught him playing ping-pong, however. . King Edward has announced his coro-, nation in August, but it will take considerable faith to put up grand stands in July. One of the secrets of King speedy recovery doubtless is that he has not been permitted to read the coronation pOSSM. Jessie Morrison, the Kansas murderess sentenced to prison for twenty-five thinks she should have still another but she has had three more now than sha gave her victim. It begins to'look as though President Castro would be obliged to give up the, government of Venezuela and start a revolution of his own. A man may figure that he is growing old when it Is disinclination rather than] dignity that prevents him from getting on| the picnic merry-go-round and taking al spin. Just now when the doctor does not} know what is the matter with a patient he can call It heat prostration. Heart failure, which has to work so hard durIng the rest of the year, can take a vadan •on.