Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1904 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PULSE of the PRESS

Yoju can’t tell the Russians that tha “yellow seril” is not real.—lndianapolis News. “Ethiopia for the Ethiopians,” cries a negro bishop. Well, we hear no protest In America. —Louisville Post. A woman is willing to take the benefit of the doubt and let man have the doubt of the benefit—Baltimore Herald. It would be something of a calamity if one of those floating mines should strike the sea serpent—Washington Times. If Montana train robbers would subscribe to state ethics they would work exclusively through the Legislature.— Detroit Free Press. Reports from the bacteriological department have it that the bacillus of lockjaw has begun to sit up and notice things.—Detroit Free Press. The Koreans are getting off more easily than they expected and are even managing to makd' a little nmney selling things to the soldiers. —Washington Star. The Igorrotea may be happy in being unaffected by the present high price of beef, but they must have a standing feud with the dog catcher.— Omaha Bee. The St. Louis anarchist society which ordered the fat men killed may have been merely experimenting with worry as an obesity cure.—Kansas City Times. It is feared that some people get into Mr. Rockefeller’s Bible class who would rather have a tip on the market than Information on how to be good.—■ Washington Star. A congressional committee Is to Investigate the Red Cross Society. It would he more fitting to have the Red Cross Society investigate Congress.— Atlanta Journal. The "worst of Bandit Raisull’s deed will not be known until It Is definitely determined whether* or not Perdicarls Is going to take the lecture platform.— Augusta Chronicle. Dotvle, in his trip around the world, probably learned that there is no place for a faker like America and no place In America quite so easy as Chicago.— Cedar Rapids Republic. Report comes from Port Arthur of a social entertainment on board one of tho Russian battleships. We presume the guests were supplied with diving suits.—Washington Post. Strange so- many French soldiers drop dead from fast walking in maneuver*. Haven’t beard of any Russians dropping dead from fast sprinting in action. —Atlanta Constitution. It is said that the one and only regret of St Louis at having the fair is that some of the imported grafters are so much more accomplished than the home grafters.—Atlanta Journal.

Itailroad companies are making extensive additions to their sidetrack facilities at St Louis. Probably preparing terminal facilities for the presidential booms. —Washington Post. Under the latest Supreme Court df> claim, railroads may kill employes with impunity, so long as they are not executed by direct order of the manager or president.—Detroit News Tribune. There is to he a scientific collection of mosquitoes at St Louis. Most people will be far more interested in dodging the uncollectad ones when the hot weather comes on.—Philadelphia Bulletin. A bok entitled “How to Get Rich” is being advertised for sale at the price of sl. A good tip to one wishing to get rich would be to save his dollar and not buy the book. —Atlanta Journal. • A Chicago woman seeks a divorce because her husband has not smiled in ten years. Popular Judgment should be ssupended until the husband tells why he has not smiled. —Minneapolis Times. Secretary Taft says that the new capital of the Philippines “lies In a pocket of the mountains.” Pleased to learn that it *loes not lio in the pocket of some real estate syndicate.—Washington Star. Bamum’s “greatest show on earth” has not only abolished street parades, but it is now accompanied by its own cboplain. There’s no telling where this reform mania will end.—Atlanta Constitution. A Japanese postcard has been published showing a Russian admiral standing on the bench in diver's costume with the Inscription, "Going down to review the fleet.”—Columbus Evening Dispatch. That the emancipation of woman is now complete has been demonstrated in St Louis. The leader of them all exercised her prerogative of liberty nrd went from the parlor into the kitchen. —St Louis* Republic. According to a new encyclopedia, poverty Is caused by four things—drink, inefficiency and shiftlessness, crime and a fondness for roving. One other cause that might be mentioned is a lack of money.— New York Sun. Visitors at the St Lot#. Fair are warned by signs to beware of green goods men. gold brick artists, thimbleriggers, -three card monte sharps and bmnko. steerers. The Aldermen seeq) to want it all their own way.—Rochester Poet Express.