Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1890 — The Carter Must Go. [ARTICLE]

The Carter Must Go.

The man who invented the pigs-in-clover puzzle has been sent to a lunatic asylum in St. Louis. Ax association of housewives in Pliiladelphia is to abolish kitchens and establish a co-operative central cooking house. A Yankee engineer proposes to build a passenger elevato • which will lift tourists to the summit of Mount Blanc. There is nothing on this earth that a Yankee can’t do. The elevated road pi Boston will almost graze the Old South Church and the Old State House, and will cross very near above the ground of the famons Boston massacre. The human race must have had its origin in the torrid zone, otherwise we could not support the li6at which would give an African monkey fits. In very warm weather Sidney Smith used to wish that he could take off his flesh and sit in his bones.

Tex years ago China had umo3t a monopoly of the English tea market, but now India and Ceylon furnish 50 per cent, of the quantity consumed. The India and Ceylon tea < are said to be stronger than the Chinese. Coffee ! is rapidly superseded by tea as a bever- I age in L'gland. The American college “veil” is some- i thing Europeans, and particularly En- j glishmen, never get used to,- Their colleges have no “veil.” and the Englishman does not see the fun of it at all. On the contrary, more than one j learned professor has endeavord to j prove that the yell is an Indian war ; whoop. One of the points etpeciallv noted ' by military observers during the recent j maneuvers ab.oad, where smokeless powder was used, was that iu a clear atmosphere, unobscured bthe smoke of battle, all bright accoutrements were seen at a great distance, thus betraying the positions of the various -bodies of troops. The current number of the Medical Journal says that, a well, healthy man will suffer more from the prick of a pin than he will from the pain of dissolution in case he dies a natural death. It assures the timid that there is no pain connected with the act of dying, but though the Jouryia 1 is such high authority most of us beg to be excused. A boy has committed suicide because ; there were no other boys in the neigh- 1 borhood where he lived with whom he could have “some fun.” The average : boy who spends his waking hours in studying plans whereby he can get into trouble, or in other words, have “some fun,” can appreciate how barren ; the young suicide’s life must have been j when he had no companions in mis- j chief. A Lapeeh, Mich., man took home j two bottles of beer one day last week, j and instead of drinking the stuff put the bottles down on the woodpile. Bv some kind of hocus pocus Sne of the bottles got into the stove, and the explosion that follow'ed wrecked the stove and scared the man out bf a year’s growth. The man promptly drank the i contents of the other liottle and went out to buy a new stove. It would bo well for the patrons of the electric cars to take notice of the fact that the courts have non-suited a man who was injured by trying to get aboard the car between the regular stopping places and sued the railroad company for damages. The railroad company is held tc be blameless, and the plaintiff is censured for liis recklessness. People who cannot leach the regular stations of the electrics would do well to And some other mode of conveyance or go afoot. Krupi*, the great Gorman cannon nakor, has just given the Emperor a nice little present. Tho gift is a brass cannon, handsomely ornamented with military designs, and, though a baby compared w ith many of tho prodigious guns turned out at the Krupp work-*, it pet weighs 4,ooopounds; The Empeior is said to have exclaimed “Great guns!” when he saw it, and he is perhaps,. as uncomfortably off as its owner as the helpless persou who lias a ber of white elephants on his hands. The Mayor, Board of Assessors and Committee on Public Grounds, of Norwich, Conn., have sat down heavily on wheelmen of that city. First, the Mayor .88ued a notice to the effect that any persou lidiug a bicycle on the sidewalks within the limits of the city would be prosecuted to the fall extent of the law; the Committee on Public' Gsiunds ordered them to quit riding in the parks; and the Boaid of Assessors have decided that their w heels are taxable property and they must pay taxes on them. - - A thunderbolt played a very impertinent prank on Mrs D. A. Baker, at her home, in Warrenvitle. a day or two igo, aad nearly scared the lady out of her wits at the same time, says the I Hartford loirant. 'A rollicking thunderstorm was rolling overhead when suddenly a holt shot down the big | chimney of the old house, glanced out ! > to the kPohen. w here Mrs. Baker was i busy with household chores, smashed ’ a lot of di‘he-i, and then in a twinkling, | whisked a pair of spectacles off the good woman’s aad smashed them

in her lap. Mis. Baker was not injured in the least. The herd of buffaloes that the Govvernment has preserved at Yellowstone National Park as almost the last specimens of the noble species have got loose and wandered away. News of ; their escape has been sent ont in every direction, and an expedition has started in pursuit. But up to this time nothing has been peard as to their whereabouts and -heir recovery is doubtful. They are likely to be picked | off by settlers and hunters, who can get almost a fabulous price for their skins. As the herd comprised the only known buffaloes in a wild state, their loss is a serious one and their slaughter would almost complete the extinction of a once countless race.

A ’Massachusetts man has taken out a curious patent for a funeral carriage. It is built like an old country I omnibus, with a compartment on the | roof for the coffin. There is not much j in this notion that is startlingly new% : but the patent has been issued speeific- | ally for an endless chain and pulley arrangement w'hieh lifts the coffin from the hands of the pall-bearers to the place designed for it on the top. About j a dozen varieties of air-tight coffins have been patented since January, each j being graced witli some particular : quality. In one the air is punmed out through a small hole after the coffin-lid has been closed, and the hole automatically closed by an apparatus inside the air exhausting machine. About the only meat the Bolivian Indian indulges in is chalona or dried mutto.n, w hich is prepared in this way: When a sheep has been killed it is laid out flat, frozen, soaked in water and frozen again; after which it is hung up and dried and is then so hard and tough that decay is impossible and no vermin will molest it. To render ebaloca edible it must be cut into small bits and boiled a very long time; and in its best estate is about as tender and jucy as sole leather. Bolivian Indians rarely eat fresh meat of any kind and have no fondness for the picanter and peppers so prized by tho Spaniards and Cholos. Their greatest delicacy in the line of food is frozen Heina flesh; while coca is considered the first essential of life, and alcohol, or its equivalent, far more necessary than water. Dean Swift was right when he w rote that apparently ridiculous allusion to the man who was going to supply sunlight from bottled cucumbers. Scientists find that the cucumber, is a sort of concentrated extract of sunshine. We have been accustomed to speak of persons of great acerbity as being “sourer than vinegar.” According to Dr. Gibler of the New York Pasteur Institute, there are sure temperaments in a literal sense. He advances a new theory about temperament, which h? bases upon tliechemical composition of the unimal organism. Instead of the old divisions into tho sanguine, the nervous, the sympathetic and the bilious temperaments, he argues from observations and experiments that there are three temperaments or constitutions of the animal body—the alkaline, the acid and tho neutral—aad he holds that a study of these temperaments would enable medical meu to gain a better idea of the unequal distribution of maladies, or in other words, the differences of susceptibility to infection.

An edict has gone forth from the I (State Normal School at Oswego, New 1 York, forbidding the voting ladies j there wearing the garters now in ; wogue. Dr Mary \. Lee, who has | charge of the physical instruction of ] the young Indies, will see to it that i they wear their hosiery suspended bv | side elastic attachments to an undergarment at the w aist, or bv none at all. ! The old style, she says, whether worn j above or below the knee hinders free I circulation, prevents development, and lis injurious. She believes a healthy, ; active mind should be hUpjxnted by a | healthy bodily development. Dr. Lee ! first made war ou corsets, then she ; gave her attention to high heeled shoes, aud both have been abolished.