Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1905 — The Comic Side OF The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side OF The News

Maybe that sunspot is just tlie bottom of the coal bin exposed. Senator Mitchell can hardly grind out explanations fast >eijmigli to meet the demand. c The Senate will now put its perfected block system to work on the railroad rate bill. While the St. Petersburg strike is over, another is likely to be called at the drop of the hat. If this were Russia we might handcuff .Swayne and Smoot and send them to tlie mines. It would require a little time to get used to thinking of Oklahoma on the water wagon. Winter sports in St. Petersburg include an exhibition of skating on thin ice by N. Romanoff. Anyhow, Grand Duke Sergius seems to have made somewhat of a success as a strike-breaker. Kuropatkin can silence his enemies by proving to the world that he has one more masterly retreat in him. Local troubles have seriously interfered with our old friend the rumor that the Czar would go to the front. Evidently the beef trust doubts Its ability to utilize that Supreme Court dsMsion in its attuning departmeuL