Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1904 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

Somewhere under the snowdrifts a fins crop of winter wheat must be tucked away. Perhaps Mrs. Mnybrick is in hiding for the purpose of wnrding off marriage proposals. When a few million bales of cotton fall on a financial bouse something Is likely to break. Having ordered so much canned beef, Japan may feel that it must light in or der to get its moqey back. If he is going to act this way the former friends of the groundhog will vote to have him made into sausage. At Bismarck. N. D., the temperature dropped fifty degrees in one night. Bismarck must be the Chicago of the Northwest. . . As the country was watching them the Congressmen came to the conclusion that it would not be right to take the extra mileage. Do not lay nil the blame for the trouble in the cotton market on the boll weeylL The (peculation weerll has had something to do with It