Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1906 — THE Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE Comic Side of The News

Even Chicago’s bank failures are on a huge scale. Zion City’s call for help is not addressed to the ravens. No place left for that Syrian leper, It appears, but a balloon. The Monroe doctrine must be pleased at having a hall in Rio named after it. That New York woman’s hotel is already hairing Trouble with the age limit. In Russia when a workman strikes now the government strikes hack with a club. Now that the Longworths are home the country can afford to look cheerful again. Russell Sage's body lies moldering in Lkegrave. but his calm keeps working on. The nssassinntion business seems to b« the only thing that is flourishing in Russia. Miss Viola Allen announces one of ths last of her positive retirements from the stage. —) General Strike doesn’t seem to be any more of a success than the other Russian generals. —. There is a suspicion in somh quarters that tin* Czar’s famous “iron band” kt sheet iron. * It will be conceded that Pittsburg is ths greatest steel, freight and trouble center in the world. The Standard Oil Company will have to use the card system to keep all Its indictments straight.