Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1891 — FOR THE CHILDREN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR THE CHILDREN.

The Bank of England was «stablished in 1694. The man who is really anxious to do something for you is usually too poor. The Farmers’ Alliance has 116 papers in Kansas —one to every county, with ten to spare. The main marble staircase alone in Mrs. Mackay’s new London residence cost over SIOO,OOO. At Nashville, Tenn., during a snowstorm, countless numbers of small fish fell. They resembled carp. A farmer in Holt County, Kansas, has 26 living children, all of whom are unmarried and live at the homestead. The printing press which Yoltaire set up in Ferney to demolish Christianity is now used to print Bibles in Geneva. A bill passed the Texas Senate making it a felony to fight a prize-fight in the State either with gloves or without gloves. Kansas requires for the instruction of her 509,614 school children 11,612 teachers, paying her male teachers $42 and her female teachers $34 a month. The English telephone patents have expired, and the monopoly there has come to an end. The Bell patents in this country have still three years to run. Folly consists in the drawing of false conclusions from just principles, by which it is distinguished from madness, which draws just conclusions from false principles. An employe of the Cincinnati Street Car Company has held the position of switchman for thirty-five years at a salary of $5 a week. He at one time had a family of ten children. A man who hit on the idea of popping corn in an attractive stall in the busiest part of Fulton street, New York, in full view of the shopping crowd, is making lots of money. The city gas works of Berlin brought $1,750,000 clear profit into the treasury during the last financial year, despite the unusually heavy expenditures for new gas houses and conductors. N

The late Cardinal Simor, who was the son of a shoemaker, became a millionaire and one of the richest prelates in Europe. There is a wide difference between pegging soles and healing souls. Mrs. Sabah Hall, of Bucks County, Pa., 91 years old, has 104 descendants living—three children, twenty-two grandchildren, sixty-nine great-grand-children and ten great-great-grand-children. There is in Holt County, Missouri, a farmer who has twenty-six children, including eleven pairs of twins, all living with him. He can truly and even as pathetically as Patti sing, “There is no place like home.” The widest plank on earth is on exhibition at the railroad depot at Humboldt, Cal. It was cut at the Elk River mill, and is sixteen feet iu width. It will be among the Humboldt exhibits at the World’s Fair in Chicago. • An artesian well near Albert Lea, Minn., which spouts both oil and water, often changes the programme and sends out a stream of small minnows which are wholly unlike any known species of fish found in that vicinity. According to reports which have recently been published, Germany employs 5,500,000 of her women in industrial pursuits; England, 4,000,000; France, 3,756,000; Italy, 3,500,000; and Austria-Hungary about the same number. The Empress of Germany, since her confinement, has given a fresh proof of womanly sympathy by ordering 100 complete sets of baby linen to be given to poor mothers. She has also set apart 10,000 marks to accompany the gifts. The withdrawal of the cattle from the Cherokee Strip has left little for the wolves to feed upon and they have migrated into the grazing countries of Kansas, where they are very troublesome. In one case they carried off a 6-year-old boy. The total population of the earth is about 1,200,000,000, of which 36,214,000 die yearly, 98,840 daily, 4,020 every hour, and 67 every minute; the numof births is 36,092,000 yearly, 1,000,800 daily, 4,200 every hour, an average of 76 every minute. It is slid that the Maine lumber camps are unusually brightened by the presence of women this year. They are housekeepers for their fathers and lm&bands, and seem to have combined to keep obnoxious characters away from the camp. A Marlette, Mich., physician recently gave an old lady patient some quinine in capsules. The other day she brought back the “little bottles,” as she called the empty capsules, to have them refilled, as their contents “had done her lots of good.” The bicycle is becoming wonderfully popular nowadays but prejudice has sot entirely died out. The Bishop of

Chester has found it necessary to come outin print and deny the report that, he had ridden a wheel, and to back it up with a promise that he never will. The hunting costume for women iu Great Britain is of such a clerical stamp that when a lady was thrown lately iu Ireland a countryman rushed up with the remark: “If your riverince will just kape along the bank a bit. therq is a handy rail your riverince might climb over!” It was found from careful germination tests at the Wisconsin station that the hulled grains of timothy seed neither germinate so well nor retain their vitality so long as those not hulled; also that timothy seed, when properly stored, is fairly reliable up to five years old. The Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald prints the following inscription from a tombstone, which evidently refers to a member of one of the old before-the-war darky families: “Hewvetta, Emmeretta, Demiretta, Creamertarter, Carolina, BaLtic, Daughter of Bob and Sookv Cottin.” Ordinary accumulators or storage batteries for electrical Work are not very portable, owing to the liquids they contain. In consequence of this trouble it has been proposed to add a little sodium silicate to the cell, which has the effect of turning a sulphuric acid solution into a jelly. A remarkable petition to the Queen is on its way from India It is upward of sixty feet in length, and is signed by more than two thousand women of India, who are anxious that the age at which a marriage may be legally entered upon shall be raised from its present limit of ten to fourteen years.

Handbells vary more than those designed for public use, and are often composed of brass, and even gold. It is a common idea that silver is mixed with other metals in the casting of bells, to mellow the sound, but this is a mistake; any large quantity of silver would seriously injure the tone. Heretofore the Postmistresses of France have been practically debarred from marrying. By an old-established rule husbands of Postmistresses could not engage in a number of trades or professions on the theory that they would offer temptations to the husbands to tamper with the mails. Now, however, the government has abolished these restrictions to the choicp'of a husband with the exception of police officials. Soon after the battle of Lexington in the Revolutionary War, Ethan Allen, 'at the head of eighty backwoodsmen from "Vermont, known as “Green Mountain Boys,” made a sudden descent on Fort Ticonderoga, near the south end of Lake Champlain. Entering the fort in the night, he fouiid the commander in bed, and summoned him to surrender. “In whose name?” demanded the officer. “In the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!” replied Allen. With the fort Allen secured a supply of powder, then very much needed by the Americans. Gold mining in the colony of Victoria shows a decided tendency to de« ' cline. Between the last two decennial censuses the number of miners fell from 54,425 to 35,189, and the population on the gold-fields from 270,428 to 230,944, and this in the face of an increase in the total population of 131,000. Eight years later —that is, at the close of 1889—the Mining Department estimated the gold miners to number 25,047 only. The total was very nearly equally divided between alluvial and quartz mining—the latter, however, slightly preponderating. The Chinese miners, who only count for 3,281 in teis number, are nearly all engaged in the alluvial mining. Ax interesting sequel to Miss Elaine Goodale’s work as a teacher among the Indians is her engagement to marry Dr. Charles A. Eastman, a full-blooded Sioux. Dr. Eastman lived among the Indians till he was 14 years old, picking up a smattering of education at a resen ation school, and forming an ambition for something better. He went to Beloit College, and from there to Dartmouth, wlmre he took the full course. After studying medicine at Harvard he returned to his people in Dakota, and has been doing useful work among them. Dr. Eastman and Miss Gocdale are both at the Pine Ridge Agency, and the former has been appointed house physician of the little Episcopal Church which now forms the emergency hospital for Indians who were injured in the recent battle at Wounded Knee. A Pittsburg friend of the late Capt. George Wallace, of the Seventh Cavalry, thus describes tlrtifc o3Scer: “He was a magnificent man in every sense of the word. He was 6 feet 3 inches tall, and of athletic build. He will long be remembered in the Seventh as a most fearless rider and crack shot, as well as a charming companion. That j Captain Wallace died hard and fighting to the last is shown by the latest reports from the seat of w ar. There were found lying around him where he fell five dead Indians, for whom five .empty chambers in his revolver accounted. He was wonderfully expert with gun or revolver. I remember that on one little hunting tiio we took together in Missouri he disdained to use a shotgun on small game, and brought down more with his rifle than the rest of us could with our scattering guns.”

TOYS MADE WITH PEANUTS AND TOOTHPICKS.' How Oar Lilli* Frlontl* (An I’m* m F*w I.onoHoino Sal unlays I'ooiuit I'ugUlits— A Littl* Poanut Lady. Ktc, Peanuts and toothpicks are not hard to get nor very expensive, but they can be made to do great duty iu making a a rainy, stay-at-home Saturday pass

quicklv. One or two other things are neoessary, to be sure, namely: a knife, a pen and ink. and a few ideas. We will give you the benefit of some of onr ideas, and expect you to invent many new ones, which, if they are well drawn and described, we will be gl*d to print. A few little peanut people—t h e Peanut family, if you please. >My lady Grandia Peanutti should b e

made of a long, slim peauut, rather small at the waist. Pins make good arms and toothpicks, with a little

dough at the bottom, serve to balance my lady when she goes out to walk. A bright-colored three-cornered bit of paper makes an excellent bonnet, and can be fastened on with a bit of glue or paste much better than with a bonnet pin. Why wouldn’t it be a good idea for little girls whose hats bother them to try the same scheme ? A gorgeous parasol can be quickly manufactured out of a toothpick stuck through the middle of a piece of bright red paper cut round and folded twice, so as to crease it a little. Then draw in eyes, nose, and mouth with pen and ink. and my lady is complete. Jocko *and Tony Peanutti are small and fat, and ought to be good-natured, but, on the contrary, they are always fighting. They must be set up firmly, and the dough or plaster of paris allowed to harden before the boxing-gloves (also of dough) are put on, or our two pugilists will lose their balance, and that, as every pugilist knows, is very disastrous. It is not recorded in the books that Romeo and Juliet went rowing together, but they must have done it, for here they are, and we fear they are in danger, for their boat is a “mere shell”—a peanut shell, in fact. This tableau requires an extra long shell, two short peanuts, a sunshade like the other, broad toothpicks for oars, and a little cloth pennant. The boat ought to be fastened down securely before the lov-

ing pair get in, otherwise they will capsize. < Try these wonderliogs and let us know if you invent others, so that we can give other people the benefit of them.— Farm, Field, and Stockman. A Want of Calculation. A 6-year-old child with a large appetite and a special fondness for pancakes and maple svrup arrived at the breakfast table the other morning, says the New York Call, and forthwith demanded cakes. “Eat your oatmeal first,” said her father. “How many cakes can I have?” said the greedy young lady. The father, who is given to practical jokes, cogitated a moment and then said: “If you eat one plateful of oatmeal you can have three cake 3; but if you eat two platefuls you can have four four cakes, and if you eat three platefuls you can have six cakes.” The child accepted the arrangement promptly, and one plateful of oatmeal disappeared in a twinkling: then another plateful followed slowly, and a third was consumed with evident difficulty. A cake and syrup were then prepared. The youngster had been growing more solemn every moment, and when one mouthful of cake had been disposed of, suddenly roared out in anguish: “My tummy’s full o’ oatmeal and I can’t eat any cakes at all—boo-boo!” Brighting All It Can The day had been dark and gloomy, when suddenly, toward night, the clouds broke, and the sun’s rays streamed thiough, shedding a flood of goldeu light upon the whole countrv. A sweet voice at the window called out in joyful tones: “Look! Oh look, papa! The sun’s brighting all it ca i.” “Urightiug all it can ? So it is,” answered papa, “and you can be like the sun if you choose.” “How, papa? Tell me how.” “By looking happy and smiling on us all day, and never letting any tearful rain come into the blue of those eyes; only be hanpyand good, that is all.” The next day the mus'cof the child’s voice filled our ears from sunrise to ! dark; the little heart seemed full of light and love, and when asked why she was so happy i the answer came laugsiagly: “Al'hv. don’t you see, paoa. I’m the sun; I’m brighting all I can 1”

“And filling the house with snnshine end joy," answered papa. Can not little children Be like the snn every day, “blighting” all they can? Try it, children.— B. S. Messenger. '