Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1903 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PULSE of the PRESS

Yellow journalism Is likewise bellowjournalism.—Hartford Post. Col. Lynch now doubtless considers* himself in the Florence Maybrick class. —Houston (Texas) ~Poi»- r The people of Missouri asked for a Senator and the Legislature gave them a Stone.—Nashville Dally News. The author of “All Coons Look Alike to Mo” has been adjudged a bankrupt. Liabilities, $6,159; assets, a mere song. —Boston Herald. Gen. Miles seems to be skipping all the crowned heads in Europe and hitting tho ground only at the highest points.— W ashington Post. If Mr. Quay has too much bad luck with his omnibus bill he might seo what he could do with a football coach. —Des Moines Daily Capital. We are becoming so skeptical of the yellow prints that we don’t even believe thnt John D. Rockefeller has stomach trouble.—Washington Post. Captain Hobson will quit the navy because of weak eyes. But the man can see a bulging box office as far as anybody.—Denver Republican. Count Boni Castellano has been again elected to the French Chamber of Deputies. The Gould millions are potent vote-getters.—Louisvillo Herald.

Lemon juice may do to destroy typhoid fever germs In water until Borne othor scientist rises to tell us what sort of deadly germs infest lemon juice.— Louisville Courier-Journal. Col. Lynch’s sentence of death has been commuted to life imprisonment. The British government wfll find, however, that this will not soften the wrath of the Irish.—Cleveland Leader.

Mr, Hobson has, It Is hoped, given Judicious consideration to the fact that the lecture platform has of late proved a much shorter, route to obscurity than the Navy Department.—Washington Star. They have commenced to reduce the seiitence of death imposed upon Col. Arthur Lynch for treason, and by the time the violets bloqm that gentleman may be enjoying entire freedom.—Pittsburg Gazette.

Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson has resigned from the navy because his eyes have given out. Still it is probable that he could see a pair of fresh, pouting lips if they were close enough to him.—* Salt Lake Herald. ... Captain Mahan Is telling Europe Just what the Monroe doctrine means. But his magazine articles don’t tell half so much as the ones that your Uncle Sam is having rushed to completion at the arsenals and powder mills.—Denver Republican. Lieut. Oov. Tillman of South Carolina, who shot down Editor Gozales in a most dastardly and cowardly manner, ought to bo hanged, but he will not be. He should by treated as any common murderer, but ho will not be.—Des Moines News. Count Bortl de Castellane was received In the French Chamber of Deputies with the regular effusive French congratulations, notwithstanding the fact that he waa just as enthusiastically fired out of that body'tome months ago; which Again demonstrates that. In France as elsewhere, nothing succeeds like success.— Indianapolis News,

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