Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1890 — For Ra helors Only. [ARTICLE]

For Ra helors Only.

Whisky -was first made in Ireland by an English monk. Now “the affrighted quail whirs o’er the field away,” provided he is not perforated with a large load of No. 9 shot A Chicago Justice has fined a woman sls for kissing a dude. Any woman with the bad taste to kiss a Chicago dude deserves even greater punishment. The papers of Micager Hancock, of Indiana, for whom the Senate Pension Committee has recommended, a pension of $25 for his services in the war of 1812, show that he is 102 yeas old. “Lewis the Light,” a Philadelphia religious crank, is testing the forbearance of a long-suffering public by circulating a “poem” of bis own composition. Lewis the Light’s meter is out of order. A veteran who died at Plainfield, N. J., the other dav requested that the bugle with which he had led his comrades to victory be buried in his coffin with him. When Gabriel sounds his trumpet he will be able to blow a return blast. Henry Shubert, of Peoria, Hl., tried to see how quick he could get married after being divorced, and accomplished it in seventeen minutes. It however,took him two hours to get rid of the smell of the bushel of eggs thrown against him by his fellow citizens. A very smart young man in Savannah tried to pay his car fare with a SIOO bill. The conductor was accommodating, and stopping the car he went into a store and got the bill changed, giving the young man a shot bag full of silver, amounting to $99.95. When people say “calculate” they use a word which goes back to the very infancy of our race and the very beginning of the science of arithmetic. It comes from the Latin calculus, a pebble When men first began to reckon and to compare numbers they could think of no better way than to lay pebbles along side of one another on the ground, and hence the word for counting. And now British capital proposes to place England within four and a half days of this country. Capt. Hamilton Gunn, who is representing the enterprise in this country, says that its projectors propose to spend a large sum of money upon the Michigan side of the Sault Ste. Marie, making one link of a system of transportation to Nova Scotia, with a connection to New York, and Atlantic steamers of 100,000 tons or over. Large vessels of the same line will also run on Lakes Huron and Ontario. A French physician says that he has demonstrated that rheumatism can be cured by the sting of bees. The virus of the bee acts, he say si, like a vaccinal inoculation, and a sufficient amount of it will render the patient entirely free from rheumatic attacks. He says, however, that it would require the services of a good many bees to cure a well-established case of rheumatism, and the remedy appears to be worse | than the disease. Bees may be good ■ for hives —bee hives—but few people ! would care to use them for rheumatism or any other human ailment. According to the annual report of the Pullman Palace Car Company, 5,023,057 people were carried in their cars last year, against 4,242,542 the year before. The figures are interesting, as showing how extensively the more luxurious modes of railroad travel are coming to be used by the people. The palace car was originally monopolized by the rich, but it is no longer considered a luxury beyond the reach of persons in ordinary circumstances. The public generally enjoys all the comforts of traveling, and they appear ' to be willing and able to pay for what they get. Thomas G. Woolfolk has for the second time been sentenced to be hanged. He is the man accused in Bibb County, Georgia, of murdering ten people of his own family. On the night of August 7, 1887, Woolfolk took an ax, and going from room to room in his father’s house, butchered every one of its inmates while they slept. They were his father, step-mother, three half-sis-ters, three half-brothers, one infant in arms and an aged aunt. The evidence was circumstantial, but the long delays and retrials have come about more through the horror with which people .shrank from the, belief that a son and a brother could commit such an awful act. William T. Chamberlain, of Norwich, has invented and perfected a gun which promises to be the most durable, simple and effectual gun ever made. It is called the electric hydrogen gun. There are three methods of firing the arm. ' J3y the first method, Mr. Chamberlain claims,the projectile is sent from the gun by a pressure equal to 37,003 atmospheres, by the second process by four times that force, and by the third • method it is transformed into an air gun with a pressure of from 1,500 to 2,0)0 pounds. The gun is simple, without Other machinery .than the chamber and barrel. The demand for new valuable weapons is so great that some of the great powers may find in this arm the ' executor ‘hey have been anticipating,

while Mr. Chamberlain may find in it the fortune the shadow of which has kept his brain active and hi; hands busy for many a day. The new National Park takes in the entire drainage area of the Yosemite and much more. It embraces the whole of the upper Tuolumne River, with the Hetch Hetchy Valley and the greater part of the Toulumne watershed. It includes Mount Lyell and its glaciers, Lake Eleanor and the Mariposa, Merced and Tuolumne groves of big trees. It stretches from Lake Eleanor to Wawona and beyond, and from Hazel Green below Crane Flat to the highest ridge of the Sierra. It is about fifty miles in length by thirty-five in width, and considerably exceeds the State of i Rhode Island in area. This magnifi- | cent reservation will be by far the most beautiful park in the world. It will lack the weird marvels of the Yellowstone —the geysers, the painted rocks and the stalagmitic formations—but in ■ the magnificence and the charm of forJ est, cliff and waterfall it will be beyond comparison. The solemn antics and mummeries of the “vegetarian philosophers” are enough to make the face of the earth broaden into a smile. Yet vegetarians are useful, aud their good work will be felt long after their fad has been buried in the dust of ancient history. These worshipers of cereals, raw and cooked, : of nut and fruit diet, while they will i not cause mankind to return to the eating habits of our simian prototypes, wil do this much good: They will instruct the ignorant and the wasteful in ways of economy; they may bring about some reform in the matter of excessive meat eating and beer drinking and cause people to pay more attenfim to the products of the earth, which are now too much neglected. There is no doubt that much of the corn fed to pigs would do more good if eaten by people. The vegetarians will finally disappear in the clouds of the fad. but they will leave much grain for the world in their theoretical chaff. A prominent New Jersey cranberry grower says that the New Jersey berries this ye’ar a:e unusually fine, and will bring $4 per bushel. Jersey berries can be kept in good condition from now until May or June of next year, with little or no shrinkage, and no loss to the owner. Cranberries are grown in the poorest lands of the country, but yield a large profit. The culture of cranberries is rapidly becoming the chief industry of the lower counties of the State, particularly Atlantic County The swamps and marshy lands are hardly fit for any other use, but make excellent bogs. The people are beginning to realize that the barren lands which have hitherto been only an expense can be utilized, and large sums of money made from a very small investment. A grower who has had long experience in making and managing bogs said recently that a first-class bog can be made for from s(>o3 to SBOO an acre, according to the quality of the bog. That a sense of the dignity of American citizenship still animates the Americans abroad who revere the traditions of the past is occasionally made manifest. Those who attended the reception given by Prince Leopold, who represented Emperor William, to the doctors in attendance at the Berlin Medical Congress say that the action of the head of the American delegation of physicians and gentlemen, as compared with the servility which marked the action of the English, French. Italian, .and other European delegates, wa i such as to make every American proud of his citizenship. The American scientist bowed with the same dignity that he would show if he were introduced to a fellow citizen, while the leader of the English delegation, who was a “Sir” in addition to his professional distinctions, groveled. “It made one sick of rank to see it,” -was the remark of one clever American doctor on repeating the incidents of the reception in the Shell Room of the new palace. “One might expect subserviency from the peasantry, but not from scientists.”

Agree with the girl’s father in politics and the mother in religion. If you have a rival keep an eye on him. If he is a widower keep twoeyes on him: Don’t put too much sweet stuff on paper. If you do you will hear it react in after years when jour wife has some especiul purpose in inflicting upon you the severest punishment known to a married man. Go home at a reasonable hour in the evening. Don't wait until a girl has to throw her whole soul 1 into a yawn that she can’t cover with both hands. A little thing like that might cause a coolness at the very beginning of the game. If, on the occasion of your first call, the girl upon whom you have set your young affections looks like an iceberg and acts like a cold wave, take your leave early and stay away. Woman in her hour of freeze is uncertain, coy and hard to please. In cold weather finish saying goodnight in the house. Don’t stretch it all the way to the front gate, and thus lay the foundation for future asthma, bronchitis, neuralgia and chronic catarrh to help you to worry the girl to death after she has married. Don’t lie about your financial condition. It is very annoying to a bride who has pictured a life of ease in her ancestral halls to learn too late that you expect her to ask a bald-headed old parent who has been uniformly kind to her to take you in out of the cold.— Saturday .Evening Gazette.