Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1904 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

Japan’s board of-strategy, on the contrary, appears to be getting results. That British mission which intends to retire from Tibet is still intending to retire. The Hague tribunal is still shut down, but the Krupp gun works are going day and night. International law appears to be about ns lucid ns law made by the ordinary Stnto Legislature. Just the power of habit may have caused the latest outbreak against law and order in Colorado. Some Constantinople humorist has cab)(*jl4t ns a matter of news that the Turk is evading his promises. If Mrs. Maybrick misses her inheritance she may have to turn her attention to elevating the stage. The optimistic person who thinks he can change tho popular pronunciation of “Niagara’’ to “Ne-a-gar-ra,” with the accent on the “gar,” is probably the lonesomest man on the earth. Unless Russia differs greatly from other nations some desk strategists in the home war office are already pointing out how much better they could have done than either Stoessel or Kuropatkin. Pennsylvania barbers, it is said, will refuse to cut the hair of a man who shaves himself. This brings up the question, will a wife who trnly loves her husband learn to cut his hair for him?