Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1907 — The Comic Side The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side The News

The voice of the coal bin is heard in the land. v This year's peach crop went before it came. This is a seven-billion-crop year, including the hayseed. There are new styles in hats, but the ame old styles in heads. A little tar and feathers is a go>l cure for marriage by “affinity.” The prevailing mode of human distinction nowadays is to have come ovjr iu the Lusitania. A Wisconsin woman died of overwork at 84. These young g.rls always do overtax their st rang th. From the way they are fbllowel. the Roosevelt children must think Amefidafiy’ are n nation of “mbbem.vks.*Now that ij is lawful in England fir a man to marry bis deceased wifes sister. we suppose that the old charm cl flirting with a pretty sister-in-lav has vanished. * Motoring imflrwes the lungs, it is said, because motorists must yell at can other when they converse. It also improves thr lungs of other people who fe-d called on to ye>l at these. A Maryland convict says his wife has disgraoed him by eloping wKh another man. Owing r> the confining nature of Mb ocenpa'ioo, it la hard for a convict to in)told the fa nil? honor.