Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1902 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PULSE of the PRESS

The way Outlaw Tracy handles fire* arms has led some to think of him Ks bebg * real son of-a-gun.—Boston Herald. The experience of Gen. Bragg suggests that when a man leaves home he should take his wife with him.—Milwaukee News. The Chicago safety deposit vaults seem to be merely convenient mediums for patting money into circulation.—Sioux City Journal. There was no fake about the 30,000 good, round dollars that Mr. Jeffries and Mr. Fitzsimmons lugged away with them. —Detroit Free Press. Missouri is patting itself on the back over its bumper peach crop, and announces to Michigan “you have got to show us.” —Burlington Hawkeye. Seven thousand cigarmakers have gone on a strike in Manila, and yet there are folk that pretend the Filipino cannot be Americanized.—Detroit Free Press. Oshkosh has always been considered as a pretty smooth town, but just watt until we get that new castor-oil factory to running!—Oshkosh Daily Northwestern. Texas, although not an original State is full of original people. A Texas congressional convention took 5,500 ballots without making a nomination.—Syracuse Post. It is announced that the police have been holding a pretty Denver young woman, which has presumably been a pleasant occupation for the force.—Salt Lake Tribune. ■ A Gunnison man seized a pitchfork and Ben Tillmanized a large skunk that had been killing his chickens. The funeral of his clothes was slimly attended. —Denver Post. Perhaps we should be philosophical enough to be thankful that Admiral Crun’shell was not in charge of a ship at Santiago, and let it go at that.—Washington Post. A Chicago school teacher Is suing a real estate dealer for $50,000 damages because he tried to kiss her. Had he succeeded she would probably want the town site.—Atlanta Journal.

New Jersey is trying to discover what bird is a natural enemy of the mosquito. The bird which could do up a New Jersey mosquito would certainty be a bird* —Houston (Tex.) Post. Miss Stone is said to have received $30,000 for her McClure story. When Mr. Tracy gets out of funds he has but to communicate with the magazine syndicate. —St. Paul Dispatch. There was nothing unusual about the career of Putnam Bradlee Strong, except that he consumed more than the ordinary amount of time in arriving at his ,finish.—Detroit Free Press. Booth Tarkington wants Indiana to vote SSOO a year for distribution among Hoosier authors. Tarkington is just married. Does he want a pension already, or only pin money ?—Buffalo News. It was almost pitiful to notice that the miners who were spared from the great disaster flocked back into the Johnstown mines again as if gaseons terrors were unknown.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. If the United States geologic survey finds the hen that will lay an egg every day perhaps it may also discover the famous hen and a half that lays an egg and a half in a day and a half. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. And now the Christian Scientists of Boston have discovered that smallpox is another disease that will not yield tb their “treatment.” So the doctors may not be driven out of business right away after all. —Syracuse Herald. It is now rumored that the army officers are in possession of an instrument, known as the “magnetic balance,” which will detect and mark the approach of a warship at the distance of fifty miles. Truly, nothing seems to be impossible in these days.—Buffalo Times. Now that the whistling woman has appeared in a New York church choir, it is in order for some rival pastor to introduce the female high-wire bicycle artiste doing a stunt between the front gallery and the pulpit desk. The gospel must be made attractive.—Atlanta Constitution.

This is the season when the mother of several children will pack up and remove to the seaside, where she will stow herself and her brood in rooms and other accommodations far smaller and more uncomfortable than any at home for tha benefit of the health of all concerned. — Albany Argus. Newark has decided that the name and address of the owner and the registered number of the machine must be painted on every automobile. This is not an unfair proposition. One of the most important things to do, a» far as the public is concerned, is to make identification easy. —New York Evening Sun. Jesse James’ body lies a-mouldering in the grave, but his soul appears to be marching on in the person of Harry Tracy, the Oregon convict, who is making a fine stagger toward shooting his way to freedom. If bis ammunition holds out, it is probable that funerals will continue to be very popular out in his vicinity.—Boston Herald. One of the best known methods of preventing strikes is to prevent them, and the only effective means of ending strikes that cannot be prevented is to end them. Employers and employes would save time, worry and money, too, if they would consider things as calmly before strikes as they are forced to consider them afterward.—Denver Post That Chicago woman who Wants >9O,- , 000 damages for being kissed must think a lot of her face. There are male persons who would demand 00 cents each kiss for kissing a Chicago woman, and then look upon the wage as too small for the immensity of the task. We await a portrait of this lady with a >50,000 month en to her, with much longing.—Loa Angeles Times. ————————— B. 8. MaQnlte, nominated by the Republicans as delegate to Congress from Oklahoma, has resigned his position as assistant United States district attorney.