Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1907 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

An American girl ought to get a pretty good count for $3,000,000. The quality of milk, anil not the price of it, is what ought to go higher. The Lusitania can keep on breaking records just so she do 'sn’t break herself. Lillian Itussell says divorce is a blessing; and Lillian has tried it often enough to know. Japan has established an emigration bureau, just as if anybody wanted to emigrate there. The wireless telegraph company will never have to contend with a strike of its linemen. ; —~ . That Pittsburg woman who. refused $1,000,000 for a divorce is certainty not an easy quitter. Time for the country to take a good, strong tonic in preparation for the second Ilarry Thaw trial. Newport society hns adopted the “toe dance” as the latest fad. This w'Jl be hard on the heelers. A German chemist has invented paper clothing. But if paper keeps on going up in price, nobody can afford to wear it. A San Francisco man has about $75,000 worth of souvenirs he picked up in Pekin when the Empress Dowager was not looking. On his airship voyage Count* Z-q>j>elein waa up in the air for seven hours. Sometimes in this country men are “up in the air” for days. A Washington writer says that chauffeur once meant a sort of bandit—one that held up travelers. Now the chaffaur is one who runs 'em down.