Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1891 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

** - ■ **i ~ ii H ■ T ALWAYS r Full Worth cfj c!hicago ! v . .. * tcaisvllietz^^^^ml i r J-: . ;: -iM eivEBPING CARS . S.Er»A2TT P&KLOR CARS t, ’.THiiiiiS BUN TMRQUSH SOLID J JoHots Ccid src! Baggage Checked to Destination. <® ... • "ays aid TTJlse V".t!c3: R:,’l want to b » ru ludyiaflsraM.'.—ii.ll'icbct Afreato at Coupo’ Atfc'..oas have thfn-i - ,r direst JAJ. barker Oeneral Passei.ee regnA Trains pass Rensselaer—Going North: 2:37 P. M.; 4:50 A. M.: 4:42 P. M.; 7:38 A. M.; local 10:12 a. m. South— ll:43 p. m.; 11:02 a. M.; 10;02 P. M.; 6:15 P. M.; local 2:37 P. it. Thanks to Senator Turpie for favors received. The Legislature will convene at Indianapolis, next Monday. The Republican pitches into its parti, sen co-laborer, the Lafayette Courier, for insinuating that Harrison’s Indian agents aie probably responsible for the Indian troubles now on, and that the shooting of Sitting Bull is a probable murder. A fair and thorough investigation may prove the Courier correct in its surmises.

In some remarks on the Force bill Senator Edmunds, republican, expressed his snpreme contempt for the opinions of the people delivered recently through the bailot boxes. It will be bnt a little matter of time when the people will give Edmnnds and his partisan associates to understand that they (the people) are the sovereigns and that public servants must respect ther will. Senator Wolcot, republican, the other day addressed the senate in opposition to the Force bill It will probably meet deserved defeat. Major L. A. Brown, of Mechanicsburg> is the State Purchasing Agent of the Farmers’ Alliance. He has established a State purchasing bureau at Anderson. 1 ■■■■ » s i i s S» Pullman, proprietor of the Pullman Car Works has reduoed the wages of his employes fen per cent. And Pullman is a loud-mouthed protectionist. Senator Voorhees in his speech in the Senate on the Force bill, denounced the hypocritical cant of Harrison for honest elections, and charged him direct with being an accessory to the corrupt methods of Dudley.

Bw Quenching at Sea. Investigation into the causes of the recent fires on steamships have shown that the use of a very simple means of fl- extinction, the injection of carbonic acid gas Into the hold, is very often not resorted to when it would be of the utmost service. It is a matter for surprise that this effective safeguard, which require! for its generation only a few barrels of marble dust and twenty to thirty gallons of hydrochloric acid, with hogsheads for the confinement of the gas and hose for Its injection, is not universally employed for me preservation of life and property on the high seas, especially as in the hold of a vessel, which can be tightly closed, the principle of chemical extinction can be applied with almost certain success. The adoption of such a system would result not only in the saving of property, but it might at anytime prove the means of averting lose of life. All Watehei CampuM). A few days ago I was standing by a Entieman when I expressed a wish to iow which point was the north. He at once pnlled out his watch, looked at it and pointed to the north. I asked him whether he had a compass attached to his watch. “All watches," he replied, “are compasses. ” Then he explained to me how this was. Point the hour hand to the sun, and the south is exactly half way between the hour and the figure XII. on the watch. For instance, suppose that it is 4 o’clock. Point the hand indicating 4 to the sun, and IL on the watch is exactly south. Suppose that it Is eight o'clock; point the hand indicating 8 to the sun, and the figure X. on the watch is due south. My friend was quite surprised that I m net know thU