Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1887 — Page 8

BARGAIN IN MUSIC. Tfiis favorite Alb'iro of Songs and Ballads.containing 32 pieces of choice a!i< i .popular music, fu.l sheet music size, with complete words aDd music and piano accompaniment is finely printed upon heavy paper with a very attractive cover. The following ate the tides of the so gs and ballads e“. tained in the Favorite Alburn: As L’-l N dhiag Else to Dr, The Dear Old Songs of Home; Mother. Wahoh tire *Lurio Feet; Oh, You Pret'y BlueEved Witch; Blue Eyes; Katy* Le n ter; The Passing Bell; I Maw Esau Kis ing Kate; Won’t You Tell Me Why. Bobbin; The Old Garden Gate. Down Below the Waving Lindens; Faded Leaves; All Among the Sum m*-r Roses; Touch the Harp Gently’, Mv Pre‘ty Louise; I Ref ily Don’t Think I Shall Marry; Dreaming of iome; The Old Cottage Clock; Across the Sea; A Year Ago; Bachelor’s Hall: Ruth and I; Good Night; One Happy Year A o; Jenny in the Orchard; The Old Barn Gate; Sack’s Farewell; Body; Whisper in the Twilight. This is a very fine collection of leal vocal •reins, and gotten up in very handsome r-ryle. Published in the usual wav and bought at a music store these 32 pieces would coßt you $11.20. We oou.abt a job lot of this mns:c at great sacrifice and as the holidays are past, we desire to close out our stock at once. Will send you the entire collection well wrapped and postpaid for only 40 cents Send immediately. Address. THE EMPIRE NEWS CO., 11.-6w13 Syracuse, N-Y.

Poetic Thoughts Concerning Him. Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; liis history is as a tale that is told; and his very monument becomes a ruin. Washington Irving. To understand man, however, we must look beyond the individual man, and liis actions or interests, and view him in combination with his fellows.— Carlyle. Man is his own star, and that soul that can be honest is the only perfect man.— Beaumont and Fletcher. The scientific study of man is tho most difficult of all branches of knowledge.—Oliver Wendell Holmes. The man of wisdom is the man of years.— Young . Man whose He iven-erectcd face The smi.es of love adorn, Man's minima uity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. — Burns. stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, 'Then were it worth one’s while a man to be. --Goethe. A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Brita n, America lie folded already in the first man.—Emerson. Swell is man! in great affliction, he is elevated by the first minute; in great happiness, the most distant, sad one, even while yet beneath the horizon, casts him down.— Richter.

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, and moving, how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!' And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Shak.speare. When faith is lost, when honor dies. Than man is dead. Whi I tier. Heading malceth a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.— Bacon. A man that is temperate, generous, valiant, chaste, faithful, and ho cost, may, at the same time, have wit, humor, good-breeding, mirth, and gallantry; while he exerts these latter qualities twenty occasions mignt l;e invented to show he is master of the other older virtues.— Steele. Ood, when heaven and earth He did create, Fo"lned man, who should of Lota ear.'ornate. —.v ■). Deal.a n. hi on are bur child:' nos a larrcr vinv .h; . i' appeuMw-are apt to obiing.^t .; ms. Mid full as craving, too, and full ,o- . ;dn. — ■JLh'thien. Consider, man; welch well thy Ir ene; The king, the beggar, ar the sam . 1' ,st formed ns ad. Each breathes his day, Then sinks into his native clav. — Gay. Nobler birth Of creatures animate with gradual life Of gio vth, sense, reason, all summed up in man. The proverbial wisdom of the populace at gates, on roads, and in markets, instructs the attentive ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously arranged.— Lavater. Man, though individually confined to a narrow spot on this globe, and limited, in his existence, to a few courses of the sun, has nevertheless an imagination which no despotism can control, and which unceasingly seeks for the author of his destiny through the immensity of space and the ever-rolling current of ages. — Colton. A medical journal states that the average Chinese baby weighs but five pounds. The journal did not state whether the Chinese baby’s capacity for squalling was less, in proportion to weight, than that of any other baby, but if they howl ru the Chinese language as loud as the American kid does in the Ln ted states language, how the poor mother must suffer. If any one has ever he r<? two Chinamen holding a convention hi their native tongue, they can readily see that a child who is just learuh.g to ! s i a few syllables in the Chino** i m-mige would make Home lunvl. —i (.< '.f San.

MAN.

CURIOSITIES OF NATURE.

The Jurr.ping fa!!, tire Acrobatic Bean, and Seed-, ilj-.f Explode. ‘’Here is a curiosity,“ said a botanist. It was a little ball of wood or fiber that /when held in the palm seemed endowed with liie, rolling o er ai.d over an.l flying into the air. “I’ve had people come to me with these,” continued the speaker, “and say they were bewitched. One man believed lie had discovered spontaneous generation: another wrote an exhaustive paper which he tried to read at all t.ne learned so< ieties, show n" that here was the beginning of both animal and plant life. In fact, the little gall, for that is what it is, has attracted a good deal of attention.” t “Mo it is only a plant,” said a reporter. “>-ot exactly a plant; but tho unnatural growth of vegetable matter on trees, bushes, or shrubs, caused by the secretion in the bark of an insect egg that hutches and cam es the growth. In tills case, you see, the gall is little larger than a mustard seed. “The gall is produced in this way: The eggs of a very small dark-colored insect, km wn as cynips, are deposited in the leaf, and, from some secretion introduced into the wound, the vegetable matter entombs the insect in a ball of fiber separate from the leaf, from which it finally drops. The larva’s movements in restraint create the curious activity. “There are many kinds of galls, and though they are injurious to trees they are invaluable to man, and aie staple commodities. The ordinary oak galls of commerce are made by a cynips. When they are green, blue, or black, the insect is in them, but when white it has escaped. England is the center of the trade, and receives galls from Germany, Turkey, Egypt, China, and Bombay. The galls are used for a variety of purposes. One sort of blasting powder is made of powdered galls and chlorate, but the most valuable product is ink. This is made from them almost entirely. “Seeds often jump about in the same mysterious way. In Mexico strangers see a curious seed known as devil’s bean, or jumping seed. In appearance it is a small triangular body. The first time I saw these seeds I was sure that they were arranged with mechanical springs, as they not only rolled about, but jumped several inches in the air. But open one of the seeds and the my stery is explained. The shell is hollowed out, cont.i ning nothing but a white larva, that has eaten out nearly all the interior and lined it with silk. Its motions occasion the strange movements. “Some seeds move by an entirely different process—that of exploding. A friend of mine got some seeds in India once, and placed them on his cabin table. All at once came an explosion like that of a revolver, and he received a blow on the forehead that drew blood, while a looking glass opposite was shattered. The seeds had become heated, and all at once the covering exploded, scattering the seeds in all directions. That is their manner of dispersal, and a large number of plants have a similar method of scattering their seed.” —New York Sun.

A Correspondence University.

A number of teachers from different parts of the country have formed an organization with the above title, with a view to keeping up their studies, so as not to fall beliind the knowledge of their day. These instructors are graduates of all the leading colleges in the ! uited States. Students have found that after leaving the colleges from winch they graduated, they quickly lose the power of concentrating their faculties in pursuing new branches of study. The value of an education is the power it gives one to acquire almost any kind of knowledge by close, mental applieutbn. The object of the correspondence university is to stimulate the n to methodical study, -when tlieir avocations are such as might distinct them from continuous intellectual work. It is intended to directly benefit those engaged in professional studies which can be taught by correspondence; graduates do,me advanced work: underteacliers in schools and colleges; those prepar ng for college; members of cultivated families who are obliged to live in remote localities; officers and men iu the array and navy; persons intending to try any of the civil service examinations; young men and women engaged in occupations Avhieh prevent their attending school, and yet who desire to learn. The fee for four weeks’ tuition in any study of the grade required for admission to a college and in some collegiate studies, is SOS; in studies of an advanced grade, the fee is $8.25. The list of studies now include agriculture, astronomy, botany, drawing, engineering, engraving, military science, music, physiology, zoology, mathematics, Greek, Latin, English, German, Hebrew, philosophy, history, political science, and law. Mr. Lucien A. AY ait, the Hecretary, of Ithaca, New York, is the proper person to address for full particulars.— Demorest’s Monthly.

A Home Thrust.

A humorous editor, living in Austin, Tex., received a cruel rebuke from his wife not long since. She had been to the theater, and on her return home gave such a very amusing account of the performance that her literary husband exclaimed: “Why don’t you write that out just as you have told it to me ? . It would make first-class copy. You ought to write for the paper.” “No, I thank you. One crank in the family is enough,” was the cutting reply.—Texas Siftings.

THE THEATERS OF LONDON.

An Enormous —TTie Lord Cham- 1 lierlitin's AuliKiratic lowers. There are thirty-six theat rs in London. Tin;, represent an investment in land of over They employ at least 10,00 ) persona—actors, stage hands, and people i i front of tlie house. These are in d reet and con- j t.nnal service. The seating capacity is 1 75,000. lire average attendance is j 51,000. Tho average :..(lm -s on is Is 11 -<l, or 3!i cents. Ihea v- i ago return, I theu, .s a o.'.t Tins .is for ; every P rionuar.c >. an 1 including matinees, .'dost of the cli .iters give j matii ees—some of them- two, and even tinee, a week. The Lord Chamberlain’s j'luy-re der revises plays, exercises an automate authority over theaters. bullyrags luanug rs, and is decent * or not as the spirit moves him. Let i me «iv lie is usually decent. His name I is Mr. L* got, an ex-barrister. He has an oili- e d wn near Mt. James’ Palace, liis duties are to li 0..50 plays, and when h : has said a n'.a- cannot be put on, that ant the it; there is no ap’ eal. Salmi Morse appeal' d from one court to another in New York, but had he applied to tho Lord Chamberlain and received an adverse answer that would have ended the matter then and there, and he word 1 have saved Considerable money. Not that the Lord Chamberlain ever meddle with plays; he is too important an o hem d for that, and the. supervision of this branch of his duties is perfunctory , quite. He has charge of public build mgs and palaces; has an office at West nuns ter, and is a veryhigh and nii'litv man all round; but the play-reader is a retiri g little chap, with a literary turn of mind and a stern sense of duty. WheaetT a play is to be produced it is sent to him with a fee of one guinea for each net. He immediately sends a receipt lor the guineas, and that is the last 3-011 hear of them. Within a week you get notice whether you can play the piece or not, or if anything has got to be expurgated. It is not necessary for Iran to indicate why he will not allow any 1 day or part of it; lie only says yes or no, and there an end. A short time ago a Canadian L end of mine sent n a melodrama, in seven , acts, to put before a London manager. ] The manager jumped at it and made j preparat on for its r rod re tion, saying “Oh, the license is nil right;he won’r. - terfere.” But e did. The play w ; sent around to hum as so >n a; the parts were copied, and w.th them the necessary seven guineas. In a 'few days notice was sent to the manager that the piece could not be played. We went to see him, and asked to make alterations. He said that he didn’t mind telling us that the Irish scene was the objectionable feature, and if we had a mind to cut that out and change the time of a cion, so that it would not deal with the Government of to-day, he woul 1 permit its production. Now the play’ had only one Irish scene, and it dealt with a peaceful village where there was a comparative prosperity, but out of which there subsequently’ came the thread of a plot. In London the troubles of the hero led to an appeal being made to the Home Secretary 7, who, by the way, is not represented, only referred to, and then not by name, and kis refusal to interfere calls forth an effort to escape, and naturally enough leads to Ills being called “a hard-he rted man.” Beyond this there is no reference to him, but that was the ground upon which the time of the action must be shifted. “Can I put it into the period of the Beaconslieid Government?” said the manager. “That I can’t say until I have seen what you make it there’” “Can’t I take it to a time when tlie Home Secretary was an unpopular man ?” “I can’t tell you. This you can do, however. You can take it out of the reign of Queen Victoria.” . “But, bless you, that would spoil the play altogether. It of a necessitydeals with the present.” Well, the play was not produced, and won’t be.— New York World.

He Was a Brave Soldier.

“You were in the late Avar, Avere you not, Doctor?” Avas the question put to a quack physician. “Oh, yes!” he replied, straightening himself up, “and I Avas accounted a very brave soldier, if I do say it myself.” “Yes,” the questioner Avent on, “your experience in your profession, I imagine, would necessarily make you indifferent to personal danger. ” “Why so?” asked the quack. “Because you are so accustomed to facing death."— Philadelphia Call.

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THE Eipredbe Leads Jig W ORLpj 'At! .jj j * MBS. JAS. AY. McEWEN, Agent, Rensselaer, Ind. AGENTS WANTED! HUM 1 in every county. We CAN SHOW PH OOF that Agent* are making from £75 month. Farmers pie to those desiring an agency Sssj. Also the Celebrated -- f KEYSTONE YY KfXtiEKS at manufacturers' .lowest LOTELL WASHER'etE'Erie, Pa.

TIT 15 WRIGHT UNDERTAKING « FURNITURE ROOMS, T. P. WRIGHT, NEW! ALL NEW!! ■ ■■ ■ I would respectfully announce to the people of Jasper County that I have made arrangements to sell I e rY,^FH’KfBCTUS.TYFWE'REAfOf EMPIRE BINDERS. And will keep extras on hand at all times for the machines.— [ am also prepared to do R ELI 0 AIRING. in[the best and most workmanlike madner, and at the lowest possible rates. WAGONS AND BUGGES repaired, and all other work usually done iii that line. NEW WAGONS AND BUGGIES de to order, ai:d of the b c s t material and workmanship. BSSTShop on Front Street, South of Citizens’ Bank,_JF| p h. yeoman: Rensselaer, lnd,, May 21, 1886