Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1906 — The Comic Side The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side The News

Smoot seems to be the Abdul Hamid of the Senate. Poultney Bigelow must have a rapidfire typewriter. Is the political pull becoming an hereditary institution? But nobody has yet called the drydock Dewey an "ocean greyhound.” Admiral Evans must be careful not to Rojestvensky his nice new battleships. There is little prospect that the Isle of Pines insurgents will get out of the woods. The Russians didn’t have sense enough to take liberty when the Czar offered it to them. Mr. Rogers might do well to recall that be laughs best who laughs last —at the law. There seems ,to* be lots of trouble for Cupid “under the Anheuser-Busch” In Bt. Louis. Mrs. Chadwick now has a good chance to gather the inside facts in regard to penitentiaries. . On the theory that “like cures like," the court-martial might sentence each baser to be well' hltfced. t With so many secret sessions, will the Senate chamber coma te ha known in time aa the Star Chamber? *