Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1907 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

—The Orange (N. J.) dog that ate a $250 glass diamond no doubt now h&s a pane inside. Mrs. Harry K. Thaw seems to have devoted a large portion of her life to the photographers. That $1,000,000 loan to the Jamestown exposition makes Virginia think her credit is pretty good. The earth is still giving expression in various parts of the country to that shocked feeling. ' , The idea of abolishing the weather bureau is absurd. What would we have to find fault with? Women are to wear cheaper hats this spring, but like as not they will want twice as many of ’em. Next we will have the Amalgamated Order of the Used-to-Be Heads of the Panama Canal Commission. Delaware wants to whip wife beaters and tax bachelors. The woman’s millennium is beginning to dawn. The Indiana Legislature is considering a bill to tax bachelors over 40 years of age at the rate of $lO annually. But even at that rate it would still pay to bo a bachelor.