Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1904 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

A winter which will try the soul of the innocent bystander is threatened in Muk den. Turkeys are so plentiful this year that their price will be higher than ever before. In looking for a place to make his last stand Gen. Stoessel finds the standing room scarce. Gen. Nogi lias a faint idea as to whera he will eat his Christmas dinner if he cares to do so. Russia is going in for reform and can stand a lot of it without feeling any particular surfeit. In taking Port Arthur the finishing touches appear to be about as difficult as the preliminaries. St. Louis wants to run the fair whils the weather permits. That should be al; winter. along the Pike. In other words, ’Gene Ware is going to mount his old reliable Pegasus and canter back to Kansas. Perhaps Port Arthur has had so much practice in not falling that it does not know how to do the falling act. Everybody has to tread lightly In the vicinity of the French cabinet these days, for the slightest jar might upset it. It la a pity that Marry Thaw's mother did not have a barrel stave at hand and the ability and Inclination to use it.