Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1905 — The Comic Side OF The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side OF The News

The army sideboard outeanteens the canteen. Japan Ims fastened upon Russia the peace-tliat-won't-come-off. Good-by. old Zemstvos Sobor. You were about the ouly sober thing in Russia. Eugene Field's eloping son possibly grew tired of childhood verse as a breakfast food. Chicago I'nivcrsity professors seem to discover everything except wlint fools they are. The Taggarts probably thank heaven every time they rend the motto, “There is no place like home.” Don't begrudge some of those gentlemen their presidential booms. It is as near /is they will ever get. The Graft Hunt in the Department of Agriculture might possibly cpmc under the head of Scientific Research. At this distance that big British squadron in tiie Baltic looks suspiciously like a chip on the shoulder of John Bull. All the worse Wild West hold-ups, robberies and murders are now occurring on the streets of Chicago ami New York. Feminine headgear this fall will be ■ n iridescent dream. Its commercial accompaniment will b« a reality in blue effect. “We are overrun by fads." says Prof. Ross of the Nebraska University. Home of those univers ties ought to use insect powder. Much to the amazement of the “business interests" the Chinese boycott ttocs not nrottse the same resentment that followed the blowing up of the Maine.