Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1906 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

Before we discover the north pole in an airship, hadn’t we better first discover an airship? That’s right about the inelasticity of currency. It never did have a tendency to slap Jt>aek. Hazing seems to have been as prevalent at Annapolis ns salary raising in an insurunee company. So McCall found he was “treed” and crawled down before the Insurunee hunters had time-to fire. A few tons of mining stock seem to linve been placed right in the track of the Joint Statehood bill. . The Cxar appears to have come down to policy of a sorely hnrnssed police- department. It looks ylmost like mockery when Edward Atkinson, a student of perfect cooking, dies of acute indigestion. Dispatches from Bauama contain news about everything except that work on the canal is progressing rapidly. Attorney General Moody says Annapolis liazers must have a fair trial. Wouldn’t that lodge some of them in jail? Miss Grigsby lias not as yet declared her intention of going on the stage. Isn’t she entitled to a vote of confidence or something? The pen !• mightier than the sword, but it lan’t likely to supplant either the pick or the steam shoTel in the Bauama canal matter. , In the Dodge-Morse divorce case some people believe that “Abe” Hummel worked the "dodge” and th# other gentleman is the justly renowued U. E. Morse. There is s perjurer among the naval cadets at Annapolis. The evidence tends to show . that there are also several kinds of donkeys at the academy, not to mention some officers who must be blind and deaf.