Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1906 — The Comic Side oF The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side oF The News

Kansas City lodging houses appear to be the kind not to build. The cab strike in New York won’t hurt just now, while so many other wheels are going round. Perhaps Miss Krupp was glad to get the Kaiser’s consent, but really it was none of his affair. That Nicaraguan hurricane which killed nine men was more destructive than a Cuban revolutiou. It is being proved by the investigation in Chicago that the talk about a grain trust is not all chaff. The New York magistrate who committed his own cook to jail is a martyr to the law’s conventions. Had it not been for Pocahontas the long line of American John Smiths might have been cut oft right at the start.—' — Ex-Senator Burton has established a precedent, but he gets no credit for It. The men who robbed the Aux Vasse (Mo.) bank were not trust magnates. They overlooked $70,000. Gen. Funston doesn’t need to be popular in Cuba. He has enough popularity in the United States to last a while. The question of the lady or the tiger isn’t to be compared with the mystery of the note In the Weightman will case. It seems to be the general consensus of expert opinion that the way to get lasting peace in Cuba is with a sho« last.