Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1907 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

Gud-bi, nu spelin, gud-bi. Ohio is giving the ice trust a coal deal. Old Vesuvius seems to be losing its head. The effort is once more being made to make the Hon. Heed Smoot to scoot. Commander Peary is now reaching the pocketbook by the lecture platform route. Getting so now that the courts arc fining a rebater every morning before breakfast. .. King Leopold wears whiskers like Santa Claus, but there the resemblance ends. There seems a big job on hand in this country for the builder of freight cars. Nobody has to do any simplified spell-' ing now, except those who do not kuow any better; The Secretary of the Treasury says five-dollar bills are scarce. Others have noticed that before _L_ Will the application of the Wire Trust for the apointment of receivers put an end to wire-pulling? Change to the balmy air of Italy seems to have accomplished absolutely nothing far the dyspepsia of Mr. Gorky. The Missouri bandit who Yobbed only the rich” got caught. A lot of those who rob only the poor are still at large. With eggs at 40 cents a dozen, no wonder the hen is enjoying a commercial rating as the country’s chief industry. The Nebraska man wha got a divorce from hia wife in order to live with her probably intended fe .put himself in a position where be could be free to run when the rollingpins began to fly.