Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1890 — Page 4

Sljc JvmocratuSciitiiiel - - - RENSSELAER, INDIANA. j. w. McEWEN, Pußuran.

The height of Mr. Sullivan’s ambition as an actor is to play Richard 111. Unless his pugilistic instincts are under good control he might subvert the climax of that great drama by refusing defeat at the hands of Richmond and knocking him out. A peculiar torture is practiced in; the prison of Uskub. Thieves and forgers are chained naked to the floor and fifty ants are placed on the body of each person. It is said that the uneasiness caused by the ants roaming freely over the body is the most exasperating torture. Says the London Illustrated News: Americans are complaining that their heiresses all leave them to marry English peers, and a syndicate has actually been formed, with the motto, “American Girls for American Men,” to cneck what they call “free trade in heiresses.” * Excuses for schoolboys are sometimes oddly expressed. Here is the latest, brought by a tall, red-haired boy of about seventeen to his teacher: “Dere Cir—Pleze to eggcuce Henry for absents yisterday. We made sourkrout, and he had to tromp it down. Allso he had to Help butcher 2 pigs. Respeckful yuers, His Rap.” Joseph J. Jonasson, has been acquitted of the awful crime involved in the charge lese majesta. He got into a political dispute at a German restaurant and exclaimed, “I sneeze at the Emperor,” vhereupon he was arrested for sedition. A man who would use such a silly exclamation of contempt as that ought to have been convicted as a milksop. The pacification of France ii a policy that remains dear to the German hea/rt. Nothing so wins the good-will of a neighboring nation as an enlightened interest in what it is doing. The arrest of a German spy with plans of the fortifications at Cannes will prove to patriotic Frenchmen that Germany is not indifferent to their progress in the arts and sciences. A jury at Syracuse, a short time ago, found a verdict for the defendant, but the foreman blunderingly announced a verdict for the plaintiff, and the court recorded the same and gave judgment accordingly. When the mistake was discovered after the jury’s discharge the judge said he could not change the record. The case furnishes a riddle for j the lawyers. An utterly unprecedented accident 1 was caused by a freak of the wind in Paxton, Hl. During a heavy windstorm the spire of the Congregational Church was raised on the wings of the wind, elevated to a considerable height, and then plunged point foremost through the roof. The novel sight drew vast crowds of spectators, who were axious to behold a church turned wrong end upward. Last year Philadelphia built 11,964 housesaveraging in cost $2,172 each. In the same time New York built 6,722 houses, the average cost of which was $11,293 each; Chicago, 4,931, averaging $5,083; Brooklyn, 4,500, averaging $5,706; Boston, 4,431, averaging $7,312; Minneapolis, 4,355, averaging $2,006; Washington, 4,048, averaging $1,523; Denver, 2,741, averaging $3,942; Omaha, 2,498, averaging $1,083, At a London dinner recently an Englishman inquired as to the size of Texas: “Well,” replied an American, “it is about as large as England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland, Portugal and Greece combined.” It became at once evident that the questioner not only disbelieved the statement but was indignant at what he regarded as an attempt to chaff him. The host managed to pacify him. The news that comes from Japan of the ravages of cholera is horrible. This scourge is always sufficiently terrible, but the virulence of the epidemic among the Japanese is hideous. Out of 1,732 cases in one district there were 1,138 deaths, in another district 961 cases and 57d deaths, in another 349 deaths out of 600 cases. At the time of the sailing of the China there had been a grand total of 17,068 cases and 9,790 deaths. This is as deadly as those great < plagues which swept Europe from time to time in the middle ages. : .The stockholders in the Eiffel tower enterprise are feeling blue just now in consequence of the steady diminution of their receipts. In the season now closing 665,000 francs were taken in. The cost of keeping the tower open was 350,000 francs and 300,000 francs were spent for repairs. Next season the small profit of this season will be wiped out, it is expected, and a con- j siderable deficit will appear in place of it. In view of this probability 168,000 francs were reserved for future use from the profits of the exhibition year. A couple who had not been long in Millville, Pa., decided at a social party that ji-“marriage in jest” would be productive of great fun; so they were wedded by a sedate-looking gentleman, who proved to be a justice of the peace. To their amazement they discovered ] that the knot had been legally tied. They determined to stand by the ceremony, and to make the alliance still more satisfactory, they were remarried

by the Rev. Clearville Park. The parties to this strange bridal are Charles Harris, of Bridgeton, Pa., and a young lady whose ante-nuptial name was Miss Nellie Butler, of Norfolk, Va. The pressure of natural gas wells in Indiana and Ohio is steadily diminishing, the diminution having amounted to between 30 and 40 per cent. Prof. Orton urges the imperative necessity of cities and States taking action to restrict the wasteful use of gas, but even the strictest regulation, he says, can not prevent the exhaustion of the supply in a few years. In this connection it is interesting to note that the Pennsylvania Company has taken the step of refusing to sell natural gas in Erie, Pa., except by meter, charging 22| cents per 1,000 cubic feet, in order to prevent waste of gas. No factories are to be furnished at any point on its line, as all the gas will be used sor 1 domestic purposes. A murder that is bold and original in conception and artistic in execution procures the murderer, it seems, no special favors at the hands of the jury. Arthur Day invited his wife to take a little pleasure trip to Niagara Falls. On getting there they strolled leisurely down to the bank of the chasm, and while gazing in silent awe at the mighty waters he gave her a push and down she fell into the awful abyss below. Here was a murder full of originality and of startling interest, but its merits—merits that would have excited the liveliest admiration of a De Quincey—counted for nothing with the practical-minded jury, and Day will go to the gallows like the commonest of murderers. The interest in lawn tennis is dying out in England, and it may be expected that the craze will soon decline in this country. Immense sums of money are, in the aggregate, spent for the accessories of the sport, and heads of families who are called upon to provide them will doubtless be glad to learn that interest in the game is on the wane. Tennis is not a great game for young people general'y, after all. It is very poor sport if not played well, and the nmber of people who have the activity and skill to play well is small. Besides, tennis is going the way of rowing, cricket, foot-ball and base-ball, and becoming a game for professionals and champions. There are better sports for the lawn than tennis, and among them prominently appear archery and croquet, old-timers which commend themselves highly.

We read that a Frenchman has manufactured a kind of biscuit containing all the ingredients necessary to support human life. “Portable food tablets," we understand is the name of the new product. Armed with this compact and convenient form of victuals, equally good, be it remembered, for breakfast, luncheon, dinner, supper, or any hybrid meal, one cm set off on long excursions with a security that he never had before. A young fellow with a stout pair of legs under him would be able to spend whole days traversing the hills, for example, without being compelled to seek an indigestible meal in some low-lying tavern. It is notorious that people out driving in the country always have to turn around and go home for an early dinner. The “food tablets” will change that. Every well-appoint-ed rural vehicle will hereafter contain a small tin box of this new human prqvender, which—together with a few oats for the horses—will annihilate time and space, and put the hands of the clock from midday to morning.

“Cast Up”

One morning some of the early risers made a discovery on the beach/ There had been a heavy sea and a strong tide during the night, and on the hard, -wet sand lay a corpse. It was that of a man, clothed in a bathing suit. He lay face downwards, one leg drawn up, and his head was covered with seaweed. News of the ghastly discovery spread quickly, and in half an hour there were five hundred of us around the body. No one had been drowned off our beach, but he might have come from above or below. After a little time a man w as found willing to do the “bossing, ” and he sent a man after the coroner. He was about to send another after a doctor, when* a very practical gentleman from Pittsburg wanted to know if a man who had been dead for two or three days could receive any substantial benefits from the visit of a doctor. Then it was concluded not to disturb the doctor, but a very practical woman from Syracuse came forward and demanded to know: “Are you fellers going to roll him on a bar’l or no ?” There was a move made to get a barrel, but again it was concluded that it would be only a waste of time. “Why don’t somebody rub him?” asked one. “Send for the life-guard,” added another. “Someone go for camphor,” put in a third. Nobody moved, of course. The only thing to be done was to wait for the coroner, who lived about two miles away. Meanwhile it was in order to wonder who he was, how it happened, and all that. Many of the women shed tears, and a man from Canada started to pass around the hat. We had been surrounding the body for three-quar-ters of an hour, and some one had just remarked that the coroner would soon be there, when the dead man suddenly straightened out his leg and sat up. Then he pulled the sea-weed off his head, threw up his arms and indulged in a yawn, and started off up the beach with the remark: “Mighty queer that a fellow can’t take a sun bath without evervbody making such a fuss about it.”— lietrotl Free Frew ‘ ,

FAIR LADY MANAGERS.

Women Who WIU Ansfet in Directing- the Columbian Kxpositi-'n. THE Chicago board of nine lady managers appointed by "C President Palmer, the National Commission, to act —-*s!^jSS£wit h the 106 in the conduct of the exj \ hibit of woman’s work in the World’s Fair are each of them women of attainments. says the Chicago Herald. More than this, they are also women of achievements, either as social leaders, organizers or prominent workers in some other avenue of effort. Mrs. Potter Palmer, who previous to her marriage, which took place in 1871. was Miss Bertha Honore, is a native of Louis vil’e, Ky. Her father was of French descent, and her mother belonged to an old and aristocratic Southern family. She was educated at a ' convent near Baltimore, and when she ! had finished her education and entered society she was an acknowledged belle. One of the most beautiful of >. women, Mrs. Palmer’s individuality is as charming as her personality. Miss Frances Dickinson, M. D.. who is the one representative of the Queen Isabella Association, received her medica’ education at the Chicago Woman s Medical College and went to Germany for instruction as to the treat-

MRS. PALMER. MISS DICKINSON.

ment of the eye, the specialty to which she devotes herself. She is a woman of indomitable energy and of unquestioned ability. Mrs. James R. Doolittle, Jr., is a native of Illinois. She graduated from Monticello Seminary, after which she went abroad to finish het education, spending between two and .three years in Paris and Geneva. She is an accomplished musician and also a fine linguist, as well as a person of charming presence and winning manner. Mrs. Myra Bradwell, after reading law in the office of her husband, exJudge James B. Bradwell, and thoroughly equipping herself at every point, applied for admission to the bar in 1869. Being refused on the ground that she was a married woman she did not continue useless insistence, but proceeded to develop a business in the

HRS. DOOLITTLE. MRS. BRADWELL.

line of her acquirements which should depend solely on her ability for its success. There was no paper at that time in the West devoted to law matters and she started the Chicago Legal Lews, of which she made a pronounced success and which she still conducts. Mrs. Brad Well made no further effort to be admitted to the bar, but a few months ago, on motion of the Court, every member of the Supreme Court of Illinois cordially acquiesced in granting her a license as an attorney. Mrs Marion A. Mulligan, who was the daughter of the late Michael Nugent, was born at Liverpool England. She came with her family to Chicago when but a child. WTien barely 18 years of age she became the wife of the young Chicago lawyer, James A. Mulligan. When the war broke out and her husband was made Colonel of the

MRS. MULLIGAN.

Twenty-third Illinois Volunteers, known during the war as the “Irish Brigade,” she accompanied him, sharing not only his campaigns but also his fate as a prisoner of war. She was appointed Pension Agent by President Cleveland, and during her four years of service disbursed about $30,000,000. Mrs. J. Sanford Lewis is by birth a A irginian. She is a fine business woman, and not only succeeded in retrieving a lost fortune after thej fire but in accumulating one much larger than the original. Being able to command her time, as her private fortune is ample, Mrs. Matilda B. Carse has for many years devoted her entire time to philanthropic effort.' Mrs. Carse is a woman of splendid energy and indomitable perseverance, and much of the most striking and successful work of the W. C. T. U. is the result of her effort. Mrs. Walter Q. Gresham is a native of Kentucky, as were her parents before her. She was brought up in the

Presbyterian Church, of which she is still a member. Quiet and conservative in her tastes, the only public work in which Mrs. Gresham interests herself is philanthropic effort. Mrs. M. R. M. Wallace was married, at the beginning of the war and accompanied her husband. Colonel Wal-

MBS. CARSE. MRS. WALLACE.

lace, of the Foupth Illinois Cavalry, during the entire campaign. She is I an ardent Universalist and is presii dent of the Illinois State work of the women of the Universalist denomination.

Peasant and Plague. According to a legend, a peasant was traveling through a forest on horseback, bound toward the village, when he was stopped by an old woman. “Give me a ride behind you?” said she. “Who are you? asked the peaseht. “I am the Plague.” The peasant said not a word, but put his whip to his horse, which gave a big jump. “Stop! stop!” said the old woman, running after him; “do you think I shall not get to your village just the same, whether you give me a ride or not? I shall be there a little later on. never fear! Be reasonable, then, and give me a lift. I promise you that I will not touch you nor any of yours.” “Get on,” said the peasant, bringing his horse to a standstill. The Plague mounted behind him, and they rode on. Presently the peasant, growing bold, stopped and said to the old woman: “If you want to make me happy, you will spare Johnny Smith at the village, and Billy Weaver and Tom Joiner.” “A ery well,” said the old woman,” I will spare them.” The man whipped up his horse again, but had not gone more than a quarter of a mile farther before he begged the Plague to spare such an one, and such an one. “I will spare them,” said she. And this went on until there were not more than ten people in the village whom the Plague had not agreed to spare. They arrived in the village. On the following day a great many people were taken ill with the plague, and within a a day or two thirty of the villagers were dead. The peasant ran to the Plague in great indignation. “Look here!” he exclaimed; “you are a wicked wretch. You don’t keep your promises. Thirty people are dead already.” “I have kept my promise faithfully,” said the old woman. “It is true that thirty are dead, but only ten died of the plague. All of the rest died of fright.” The moral of the story is that, during an epidemic, people should live and act prudently, but should not be in a state of fear. Tliirty-six Years in Congress. Hon. Justin S. Mon ill has just been elected to his fifth successive term as United States Senator from Vermont.

SENATOR MORRILL.

years continuously as a member of the House, stepping from that body on the day of the expiration of his term into the higher branch of Congress. Thus he has an unbroken record of thirty-six years in Congress. Mr. Morrill is over 80 years old, having been born at Stratford, Vt., on the 10th of April, 1810.

Fresh Air. Fresh air is a necessity, and by some considered a luxury, it is free" to all. Therefore we ought to live out of doors as much as we can. It is the place for mankind to be. It is good for the health. We have heard a distinguished physician say, “However the air may be out of doors, it is always worse in the house.” Fresh air is good for the temper. People who are shut up in the house are apt to grow fretful and peevish. They are likely to acquire narrow views of things, and worry over things not worth considering. It is good for the whole character to live out doors. It strengthens hope, patience and fortitude. It expands and softens one’s nature and makes us more charitable. Safe with Only One Potato. Did you ever calculate the value of a single potato on the basis that that single tuber was the only one left in the world ? That one would, of course, contain within itself the possibility of restocking the world with a valuable article of food. If one potato would produce, when planted, but ten potatoes, in ten years the total product would be 10.000,000, which would stock the whole world with seed. If the world were reduced to one single potato it would be better that Londoner Chicago should be blotted from the earth than for that one tuber to be lost.— St. Louis. Republic. A German chemist has discovered that when a bottle partly filled with a solution of ozone in water is shaken a soft phosphorescent glow spreads over the surface of the liquid and quickly disappears. A second shaking gives a fainter light, but the appearance Cannot be obtained again until after an interval of some days.

MR S. LEWIS.

Mr. Morrill is the oldest man in America in public life. He enjoys the distinction of having served in Congress continually longer than any other American statesman. He has now been a Senator for twentyfour consecutive years. Previous to entering the Senate he served twelve

A NOVELTY IN NECKWEAR.

The New Style of Scarf Which Will Last Six Times as Lone as Any Other. A neckwear manufacturing firm has introduced a novelty, wnich is illustrated herewith. The pictures represent a scarf that can be worn six times as long as any other without showing wear. The tie proper is an endless belt and revolves through the puff in such a manner that by slightly pulling the belt, or apron, the part hidden under the puff will appear on top and the soiled part will be hidden from view in the back, thus avoiding the necessity of discarding a scarf when it

THE EXTENSION SCARF.

becomes slightly soiled by the chin or collar. It is easily adjusted, and is. without doubt, one of the most original ideas put upon the market. Mr. Blaclcanwhyte's Chef D’CEuvre.

i. “There go the family to catch the train, 1 wish that were a ruin for me f> paint.”

n. “My man. ten dollars to make my house •onder a min ! Done. |« it ?”

ill. “Now that’s something like a ruin. My fortune is made if I can reproduce that.”

IV. “That looks more like it. Now, if the family will only stay awav ion- < no ’"h!”

V. “The family seem to be surprised. I had better finish this in ihy studio.”

VI. The picture created a genuine sensation, and was sold for seventeen dollars.

Departments of tlie World’s Fair. The National Committee on Classification has marked out the twelve divisions into which the exhibits will be divided. They have been practically agreed upon, but not formally adopted, and are as follows, each letter representing a department: A—Agriculture. B—Viticulture and horticulture. C—Live stock. D—Mines and metallurgy. E—Machinery. F—Electricity and electrical appliances. G—Manufactures and other elaborative industries. H—Fine arts—pictorial, plastic and decorative. I—Science, historic, literature and social relations. K—Marine and fisheries. L—The house and its accessories; costumes and personal- equipments. M—lsolated, collective and monographic exhibits not otherwise class-

CRAINS OF GOLD.

[From the Ram's Horn.] The most beautiful glass eye evermade cannot see anything. The first question at the sepulcherwas, “ Why weepest thou ?” The sweetest bread ever tasted, is= that cut from the loaf of toil. God clothed man. Man stripped! Christ, and gambled for his raiment. Make your long prayers in privateand your short ones in public. Everytime we try to deceive-God, our chances of being lost increase. Real wealth is that which cannot betaken from you by man or devil. The happiest people are those who willingly suffer most for others. It is not an easy matter for God to get His arms around a man who already has his arms around a bag of money. It makes no difference what we are. The most important of all things to us is what we will permit Christ to be. All the preaching that ever has orever will be done may be boiled down into three little words—“ God is love.*” We know how much trouble the devil caused Job, but God alone knows how much trouble Job caused the* devil. When we get to the end of life, we shall find that the only things we havereally lost are those we tried to keep. Don’t be in too great a hurry for results. You can’t raise an oak tree md get a crop of acorns in a few minutes. The devil is always ready to walk, xrm in arm with the man who says, “I don’t have to join church to be a Christian. ” * Wearing his hat on the back of his. head is one of the ways in which a., young man, can tell everybody he doesn’t know much. If the women who went to the sepul;her had waited to find somebody toroid the stone away, they would not ■ have started.

lhe man who goes to heaven on flowery beds of ease will find himself in a mansion of not more than one room when he gets there. The fact that God used the ravens tofeed Elijah should teach us that we can derive spiritual help from the most-' common-place resources. Christ didn’t say, “Stand still, and I will give you rest,” but “Come untome.” There must be a change of front, and a forward movement. If* moderate drinking is allowableand respectable, what’s the reason moderate stealing or any other kind of; qualified meanness is not commendable? The only way you can persuade some people to join church is to convince-, them that it pays. Do this and you * could n’t keep them out with a shotgun. Did you ever notice how carefully people pick their way over a muddy street crossing? Christians ought tobe just as careful as to how and where they walk. « Gcd’s way of blessing is to give everybody all they can carry, and chargenothing for it, as Joseph did to his brethren, when they came to him after corn in Egypt. Singular, isn’t it, that when a man gives his wife a dime to buy a box of hair pins or <» gum ring for the baby, it looks about nine times as big as it does when he planks it down on the counterin exchange for a little bitters for the stomach’s sake.

A Colored Priest. The only person of African descentin America who has been ordained tothe priesthood of the Roman Catholic

AUGUSTINE TOLTEN.

boarding himself, but rose to a position of trust and good wages before theend of his service. While working by day he obtained a common school education at the parochial school of St. Peter’s, where Sister Mary Eustacia, a. Sister of Notre Dame, took great interest in teaching him and encouraginghim. He began the study of Latin under the tutelage of Father Wegman in 1873, and in 1«75 went with a priest to Marysville, Mo., to assist in theservices there. In 1876 he returned toQuincy, and finished his classical studies at St. Francis College, and on the 15th of February, 1880, started toRome. He was admitted at the Propaganda - in March, and at once began a six years’ course of studies—two of philosophy and four of theology. April 24, * 1886, ae was ordained a priest. He returned to America in 1886, and held at the Sisters’ Hospital, Hoboken, the - first Romish service ever celebrated in this country by a negro. He then returned to Quincy, where he was madepastor of St. Joseph’s Church, a congregation of colored people, July 25,. and labored there four years. Nov. 9, 1889, he was called to Chicago by Archbishop Feehan, and since then has been in charge of St. Monica’sChurch.

Wedding Anniversaries. Somebody gives out the following asa correct list of wedding anniversaries:: Three days, sugar; sixty days, vinegar; first anniversary, iron; fifth anniversary, wooden; tenth anniversary, tin; fifteen anniversary, crystal; twentieth anniversary, china; twenty-fifth’ anniversary, silver; thirtieth anniversary, cotton; thirty-fifth anniversary, linen; fortieth anniversary, woolen forty-fifth anniversary, silk; fiftieth anniversary, golden; seventy-fifth anniversary, diamond. “Rambo’s eyes seem to be perfectly sound. I don’t see why he wears thosegoggles.” “He does it to protect his. eyes from the glare of his nose.”

Church lives in. C h i c a g o—Rev. i Father Augustine’ Tolten. He was born a slave in Ralls County,. Missouri, April 1,. 1854. He obtained his freedom in 1861, and went toQuincy, 111. Reworked for twelveyears in a tobaccofactory in that city, beginning at 50 cents a week,.