Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1891 — Knew a Cheaper Way. [ARTICLE]

Knew a Cheaper Way.

The •'bachelor” girl is now the term applied to the young woman, who leaves the paternal home and strikes out for herself. Some New Yorkers in good standing outside of the 400 believe that Ward McAllister is a myth created by a clever Bohemian. In this case fact is stranger than fiction. A dbove of hogs in Hudson, Mich., became intoxicated by drinking the scum from a sorghum factory, and in the orgies which followed one hog was drowned by the gay debauches. Roller-skating is to be introduced into fashionable Boston society. The Hub evidently feels the need of relaxation after the severe mental strain consequent upon the Browning and Tolstoi fads. In the last nine Presidential elections New York went Republican Six times and Democratic three times. In the same elections Indiana went Republican six times and Democratic three times. The American Agriculturist says that seven oat of ten barns “burned by tramps” are actually set on fire by the pipe of the farmer himself. He knows the danger of working in the barn with a pipe in his mouth, bat he risks it. Eight hundred salesgirls in Berlin belong to a union which has had remarkable success. For ten cents a month they receive medical care, medicine, and help in getting work. The organization was started by a woman’s club in that city. • A Kansas man sunk a shaft on his farm the other day, and in going down 100 feet It is said struck two five-foot veins of mineral paint, a ten-foot stratum of brick clay, a twenty-inch vein of coal, and a five-foot stratum of marble. Uncle Sam is pretty liberal miuded in regard to names of towns and postoffices, but when the State of Washington hobbed up with: “Caughtajackassrabbitthere” it was decided that the name had better be changed to plain “Hopeville.” Ismail Pasha, the ex-Khedive, whose extravagance ruined Egypt and necessitated his recall, has now applied to the Sultan for $50,000 to enable him to buy furniture for his palace at Stamboul. There is nothing close about Ismail as long as his friends settle the bills.

Dr. Hf.lf.s L. Betts, of Boston, is the first woman physician chosen to ■visit the laboratory of Prof. Koch, of Berlin, for the purpose of investigating his discovery. She has been delegated by the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, of which she is a graduate. The English dinner hour has been getting later during the whole of the present century. When the Queen married it was 7 o’clock. She now dines at 9. The Prince of Wales’ effort to turn it back to 7:30 is supplemented by an appeal for dancing to begin at 9, and finish at 1. Before the railroads and street cars were in use in India there were seven different castes in cities like Bombay which could not ride in the same vehicle with each other. This has all been knocked in the head, and the only struggle between them is to get the best seat. The Detroit Press says: “If a boy fifteen years of age should be left ten acres of land in Michigan, and his guardian should cover it with hickory trees, the income of the boy when he came to be thirty years old would be from $9,000 to SII,OOO clean cash off his little farm.” It appears from the souvenirs of the Baron de Barante which are about to be published, that Talleyrand fled to America menanced by the reign of terror, his worldly wealth consisting of 25 ionis d’ors, and that Mme. de Stael prevented him from committing suicide by obtaining for him a post. ■Sj- 1 1 ■ A ne&ress named Caroline Jenkins, living near Houston, Texas, is a veritable Samson. Four police officers wept to arrest"her, when she took them one and threw* them out of the c .tymse and locked the doors upon them. She a half-inch rope with j|itf3jlaretching it from hand to The people of Japan are not insensible to wie requirements of station in life. A native paper proves it in this news-item: A nun (Buddhist) at Sin-hui, having had the misfortune to be afflicted with twins, the neighbors compelled her to expend a small fortune in firecrackers tb clear the atmosphere of the scandal. It has been estimated that the volume of water poured into the Rio de la Plata exceeds the aggregate discharge of all the rivers of put together. Its ordinary flow at some points is 100,000 cnbic feet per second. The ordinary volume of water its the Uruguay River averages 11,000,000 cubic feet j>er minute. A rich man in St. Petersburg died, leaving an order that his sealed will should be opened twelve months after ilif death. When opened it contained aaother sealed packet, with instructions that it must not ’re opened for a

year. The will had seven .jßeals, the last one of which has only been broken although the testator died six years ago. Dh. Carl Eigesmann has been collecting fish in San Diego for some years. In making up a collection recently for the British Museum he found a new specimen of herring that has pocket membranes for slipping in the dorsal pectoral and ventral fins. The scales are large, the eyes have a glassy covering and most of the head is transparent. '

Milk given warm in the morning is an excellent invigorator for laying hens. It may also be given at any time, and the skim-milk will answer as well. All the soft food of laying hens can be mixed with milk in preference to water, and with advantage, as milk is a nitrogenous substance, and assists in providing the elements that compose the white of eggs. Girls do have some advantages, anyway! Of 500,000 girl babies born in Massachusetts 364,222 reach the budding age of fifteen. Of the same number of boys onlv 350,430 reach that age. In the happy land of New Jersey, where there are fewer factories and more peaches and sweet potatoes, both babies have a better chance and th 6 figures stand 368,311 and 378,293. Maj. Gen. Molina Guirola, the recently appointed Minister of Salvador tc the United States, is a man of distinguished appearance, was educated in the Salvadorian military academy, and has fought in the battles of the republic for twenty years. His present appointment was conferred by President Ezeta in recognition of his services daring the recent war with Guatemala, when he acted as general minister, holding for a time all the cabinet portfolios. In 1867, while fighting against Guatemala, he lost a leg. Gen. Guirola intends to bring his family to this country soon and have his family educated here.

Hidden away in the New England eonservatorv, according to a story told in Boston, is a rising star from the South—Miss Will Allen Dromgoole, a feminine little Tennessean, who never meant to mystify Boston and New York editors by masquerading as a man. After she had written about sixty stories, including a serial for the Youth's Companion, Mr. Hezekiah Butter worth invited her to come East and make him a visit, thinking her a mature bachelor like himself. She knew this editor of the Youth’s Companion was a man, but inferring that he was domiciled with a w ife, accepted the invitation. After sending up her card at the office of the Youth’s Companion a mutual enlightment ensued, which has caused considerable diversion in literary circles.

The modern ocean steamer is an en ormous craft. Those of the largei size have as many as fifty-four furnaces, which create steam in nine enormous steam boilers. There are six furnaces to each boiler, and ten firemen to each furnace—or sixty firemen in all. Only half of them are on duty at once—thirty at a time—the shifts changing every four hours. They feed the furnaces with fifteen tons of coal an hour—two tons for each fireman during his four-hours’ shift,or 340 tons a day for the steamer. The work of a fireman is hard, and not relieved by a sight of sea, sky or land. He is a sort of prisoner in a heated dungeon. The pay of a fireman is S2O a month. His life—between heat, exposure and riotous disssipation when ashore—is short. The maximum age of the class is 45 years. The unseemly wrangles that have marked the preliminary efforts to organize the Columbian Exposition—announced to be held in 1893 instead of 1892, as should have been the case—will certainly work against the interests of the fair and may result in something very near a national disgrace. We, on this side of the water, understand bow largely the rival interests of Chicago people are responsible for the squabble, but it will not be easy to convey to the mind of the foreigner an appreciation of this fact. Unless he has made a study of the political system in this country, he will hold the United States at large responsible for the acts of the State of Illinois and the city of Chicago. In fact, he will be to a degree justified in doing this, for the reason that the Congress of the United States designated Chicago as the place for the holding of the fair.

Opposite Nashville, on the Arkansas shorp, and about ten miles inland, I asked the owner of a cabin for a drink of water and went to the well with him to get it. He didn’t have to go down over fifteen feet, and there was water to thef.depth of five feet in the hole. It was neither stoned up nor was there a curb around it, and as there was several children around and the well was near the door I said: “I should think „you would have a curb around this well.” “What for?” he said. “Don’t the children run a risk of falling in ?” “I reckon.” “And wouldn’t a curb lessen the chances ?” “It monght, but it wajild take a heap of lumber and time. Fve got a cheaper way. Look at that.” He pointed to a pojp stuck on end in the well, and while I was trying to make out what it was for he said: “That’s fur 'em to climb out on when they tumble in, and it beats a curb aP holler. * —Exchan <j e.