Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1904 — The comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The comic Side of The News

Kansas should be more cartful as to whom it semis to the Senate. Doubtless Senator Burton thinks that Senator Smoot does not know what trouble is like.

Mr. Baer's “divine rights” do not seein to have made much of an impression on the Supreme Court. Now if Joseph Smith and the other Mormons will practice what they preach they will not get into so much trouble. It appears thatvregardless of race or color the army contractor is hanging around the edges of every war looking for a good thing.

Russia is saM to be entertaining the idea of changing the name of Port Arthur to something with a Russian sound about it. There mny be a sort of feeling, also, that a new name for the place might change its luck. Grosvenor probably will buy up all tho old arithmetics ho enn find so as to get plenty of figures with which to do his political predicting as soon as the campaign gets well under way.

That Connecticut man who hns started to give away his fabulous fortune of $15,000 will find when nil the applications for aid are in that he will not need to hire any one to help him give it away. President Smith has been indorsed by his church for hf»4sstimony in the Smoot case. Perhaps the church feels that the same amount of advertising at commercial rates would have coot a lot of monay.