Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1907 — Humorous News Notes. [ARTICLE]

Humorous News Notes.

Wifie has a hard time now telegraphing home for money. i Is Esperanto the unknown language in which train porters call stations? Wouldn’t it be best just to wipe out Morocco uud start there with a clean slate? It will be hard luck for the Moors to have to pay for the licking France is giving them. Dressmakers may now have an excuse to raise prices on account of the increased cost of thread. The telegraph strike is to be a fight to a finish. That’s what tbe coutKry wants to see—the finish ! % Tight fbocs are to toe the style this season, which will make the corn-pl&sier factories work overtime. A Philadelphia woman, 104 years old, compla.na that society isn't as lively as it used to be. Giddy thing 1 There are 81.722 portions in prisons in the United State*, not counting a number of others that ought to be there. Chicago claims 2J3U7.000 population. Bat thia la only 'city directory population, and it doesn't mean people at ail, at all. If the telegraph strikers cut off tha cables, bow are we to learn what Whi tala w Raid aad Jimmy Hyd* ar# doing oo the other side?