Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1903 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

European royalty continues to live down to its reputation. That message will make good reading for the long winter evenings. It appears that hi* creditors don’t want it if Dowie lias the money. Will the speculators who arc boosting the price, claim that there is a coffee benn weevil, too?. Corn may he king, hut cotton is president as well as chairman of the tiunucs committee. If hypnotism Is the defense of the Chicago car burn thugs they should be called on tq explain why they did not hypuotize their victims instead of shooting them. Occasionally a humorist gets nt the other end or tho cable line. A European correspondent gravely informed us the other day tiiut the streets of Venice were flooded. After the Senate ha* ratified the treaty With Panama we can go itbt-ad and dig the canal and allow all the South American countries to fight it ont ns to tha ownership of the $10,000,000. According to rumor several big operators in Chicago have gone over to tha Itnll side of the market, but it may only Be given out for the purjose of getting tha public to tumble over itself trribny.