Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1907 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

The government has succeeded in putting an mid to almost all the lotteries except marriage. That Wisconsin husband who waited 56 years to sue for divorce took a long time to think it over. Ia spite of the steady work of the bomb-throwers, there are still a few unkilled Russian generals dodging around. When a New York butler can retire with SIOO,OOO it indicates that prosperity has trickled right down through the population. A pretty Nebraska woman who won her lawsuit promptly kissed the judge. You see, it’a worth while being a judge in Nebraska. , A California professor says 10 cents’ worth of peanuts is more nourishing than a porterhouse steak. Walk up to the peanut Stand and get a dinnertor a dime! That Ohio boy who ia to get $250,000 if he ia a patriotic American will probably put up a Fourth of July celebration that will make the country scream for help. A lunqtic who escaped from the Middletown (N. Y.j insane asylum has been mailing back souvenir poet cards from every station. No doubt now about his being crasy. That Washington girl who sat on a wrecked boat and ate chocolates while tbs waited for the resellers ought to be given a heroine medal by the “Don’t .Worry” Club.