Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1888 — BOOM! BOOM! [ARTICLE]

BOOM! BOOM!

Not Only from the Cannon’s Mouth, but In Human Actions. If there was ever a city fairly drenched, and soaked, in fact, with enthusiasm, that one is the Queen City of the West, or, as laid down on the maps, Cincinnati, O. The fact of the matter is, that at the present time the eyes, of the world are directed upon that 10, , cality, as that is the site selected for the principal demonstration of the people of the Northwest commemorative of the settlement of the country in 1787-8. Within a hundred years the nature of the country has changed from untutored wildness to that of the highest stage of civilization, and the grand Centennial Exposition is given at that place by the descendants of the noble men and women who effected that change, in honor of the labors and sacrifices of those who have gone before. Magnificent as the Cincinnati Expositions were when comparatively local interests were concerned, they have been left in the shade by this one, to whose wheel the whole United States as a body has responded with a shoulder, and the one who can say in after years that he did not visit it will be looked upon as having mussed his oppor--1 tunity. Among the policy-holders of a Ger* man life insurance company, the deathrate of medical men in 1887 was 11.53 per cent, above the total average. This was due to diseases of the respiratory organs, consumption, and infectious diseases. There was only one case of post-mortem poisoning out 'of 1,052 deaths. —Arkansaiv Traveler. It is all right to open a camp-meeting with a prayer, but you cannot open oysters that way. "Hamlet" is a play for all timo. It will never give np the gho6t.—Pucfc.