Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1891 — FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE [ARTICLE]

FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE

Th® New York commission wishes to utilize Castle Garden as an aquarium. French statesmen have offered a reward of 1,000 francs for the best athletic game. The candles at Mrs. Roger A. Pryor’s receptions, in New York City, stand in candlesticks 200 years old. When a New York man goes to Philadelphia to be married his friends invariably send a tribute in the shape of a floral pillow inscribed with the word “Rest.” Vinnie Ream Hoxie, the sculptress, is described as “an emotional little mature, with an alternate tear and smile in her eyes. ” Here are the elements of a rainbow. The numericallv smallest religious denomination discovered by Porter’s census takersis that of the Schwankfeldians. There are 306 of them, and they dwell in Pennsylvania. Joseph Bond, colored, living near Toronto, has lain in bed in the sulks for twenty-seven years, and is now approaching death, all because his mother sold her farm against his will. When his father dies young John Jacob Astor will have an income of $3,000,000 per year and can grace his table with early vegetables, fill his coal bins and have ice in his refrigerar tor. The salmon fishermen of Maine are in earnest in their war against the seals, that seem to be multiplying along the coast. They say a bounty of $2 a head must be offered by the State on seals long there’ll be no salnio:w ■Kt educated Apache Indians at Soromon ville, Ark., turned their newly acquired knowledge in the direction of forging notes in a government quartermaster’s name, and will have the pleasure of engaging in industrial pursuits in prison.

The quickest trial on record is reported from Oconee, Ga. A man who stole an umbrella from a store was arrested. arraigned, pleaded guilty, and paid a fine of $29.25 inside of fifteen minutes. After the trial he claimed 1 the umbrella, but didn’t get it. An lowa farmer fed in November two acres of corn to his cows as their sole ration, and sold the milk they produced to the creamery for S6O, and had 6,000 pounds of skim milk. 280 pounds of which will make as much pork as a bushel of corn, for his trouble of ingThe editor of a weekly paper in Kansas has been shot at twice, assaulted three times, and had the windows of his office smashed in three times within the space of four months, because he declared that the Mayor ought to be impeached for drunkenness. At Columbus, Ohio, the other nigh a lady caught a rat making off with her gold watch and chain, which she had left upon a dresser on retiring. The rodunt had dragged his prize nearly twenty feet, and in a minute more would have disappeared in hts hole with it. Maine has produced a Kee’y with a mysterious motor. He lives in Monroe, and says that his machine is capable of one to ten horse power, and does not derive it from steam, water, gas, or any agency now known. He’s going to hitch the machine to churns and pumps. The American railway passenger coaches used on the English lines a-e in every manner superior to the compartment car, but they are American, and John Bull won’t patronize them on that account. He’d rather freeze to death in a box-stall than have a whole car with steam heat. Near Winnepeg Lake, Manitoba, a large heard of famishing wolves attacked a party of Indians and killed a number of them. This is a new solution of the Indian question, though rather hard on the Indians, and the Canadian Indians have been far more peaceable than the American. Every preacher in the State of Georgia could be walked to jail under an old law, which says that each and every one of them must read the laws of the State from his pulpit four times a year. Somebody, who got bitten in a horse-trade with a preacher, has found the law and proposes to enforce it. A Wisconsin saloon man refused to Stop selling liquor to a certain woman’s husband, and she called upon him and said: “Next time you sell him a drink I wiH come in here with an open keg of powder and a lighted candle, and you and I and all the rest of the crowd will go up together with a bang. ” He tumbled. There was a slide in the Himalaya Mountains of India in January which beat the circus oat of sight. Over 250 acres of surface, and extending to a depth of twenty feet, took -a tumble of over two miles and built a barrier sixty feet high across a valley. Everybody wks invited, and there was no extra charge for reserved seats. A Missouri man applied for a divorce on the ground that his wife refused to

go to a card party with him." Her defense was that she didn’t know one card from another, and the Judge dismissed the bill and complimented her for her refusal. He said it was the rule for women who didn’t know anything about cards to go to card parties. A coach horse balked on the streets of Boston and nothing would start him. A man brought out a small electric battery, put on the current, touched the animal on the flank, and he got 'out of that so fast that he ran over two men and a dog. It is believed that the subtle current would even move twelve loafers off a grocery platform.

Two STENOGRAPHERS took 120,000 words of the Senate silver debate, which closed at midnight after lasting fourteen hours. They dictated their notes into phonographs for typewriters to transcribe, had all the copy ready for the printer by 8 o’clock in the morning, and the Record was on the desks of the Senators when Congress convened. The Indian is a tighter only when favored by circumstance. He always wants the odds in his favor, and big odds at that. Military men figure that a troop of 100 cavalry can charge and scatter a band of 500 mounted Indians on the open, and that with a loss of only 5 per cent. On the other hand IUO Indians in a gulch will stand off 500 whites. , There is a curious little bit of red sandstone on exhibition in New York. It has on it a remarkable resemblance to the profile of Christ, head, beard and mustache, and even the eyelashes being distinctly visible, although the pebble is only an inch long and the profile little more than half an inch. It was picked up at Oberammergau by Mrs. Oliver T. Bacon, of Atlanta. Ga. A new flash-light fire alarm has recently appeared in .Copenhagen. It consists of a small cartridge filled with Bengal light composition, and provided with a fuse which carries a small capsule of strong sulphuric acid. When the temperature of the room rises above the melting point of paraffine, the sulphuric acid is liberated and ignites the fuse, which, in turn, sets fire to the Bengal light. The device can be supplemented by a piece of fusible metal, which in melting will establish an electric current and ring a bell.

A trick that is going the rounds just now is to measure by the eye the distance to which yon must push away the central one of three silver dollars side by side, their circumferences touching, so that the distance from the lower edge of the central coin, so removed, shall be equal to the distance apart of the outer edges of the two •ther coins. You will probably do as every one else does, put the coins side by side and push the middle one upward along the table until you think you have done a rash thing by pushing it so far. When you measure you will find oat. It’s an old perversity of the eye.

An old project for a line of steamships from England diiect to Chicago via the St. Lawrence and the Great LakGs, has been revived since the depth of the Canadian canals has been increased sufficiently to accommodate ocean steamers. An agent of this syndicate is now on a visit to the different lake cities making contracts for freight by the new line, and so far he has met with sufficient success to satisfy him that the undertaking will be a success. The capital stock of the company will be $5,000,003, and there will be ten steamships built to begin with. These steamshipswill cost from $125,003t0 $159,000 each and will form a weekly line with two trips running wild.

Sir Robert Wright, who ha; been appointed to the seat on the High Court of Justice left vacant by the death of Baro i Huddleston, on one occasion, while at Oxford, was summoned before the De m of Balliol for the purpose of being censured. The Dean was exceedingly card nl of his dignity, as well as of his personal appearance. Wright looked the Dean well up and down while the latter was delivering his lecture, and finally interrupted him in the middle of one of his most telling periods, by remarking, confidentially, “I know you will excuse me sir. but I think you cannot be aware that your waistcoat is unbuttoned.” Completely nonplused, the Dean was only able to stammer out: “Oh, thank you, Mr. Wright. 'Ho very kind of yoi, lam sure. Goodmorning, good-morning!”

Judge Ogden Hoffman, of the United States District Court, in San Francisco, tells a St. Louis GlobeDeniocral interviewer of a foolish lawsuit that once occurred in Fresno County. Two brothers lived on a ranch near Fresno. One was greatly given to going into the woods and listening to the birds. The other and older brother resented this, which he called loafing, and one day, finding the younger man sitting on a tree trunk, rapt in contemplation, he asked him what he was doing. “Oh, I’m listening to the birds that sing for me.” “The you are,” was the answer. “11l let you know that those birds sang before you showed up on the ranch, and that they are singing especially for me!” Words ended in blows, and an arrest followed. In court the judge, after getting the story of each brother, said dryly: “Now, I’ll fine you fellows S2O each for disturbing the peace, and mind you, those birds sing for me.”

HOW GRANDMA LOST HER BON N ET. An JnterattiHg Sketch for Little Girls to Head-V hicajo’s i.abyllr miner. “Yes, dearie, that is right pretty,” said Grandma Hobbs,as Nannie pranced before her with her new hat set jauntily on her curly head. “I hope there won’t anything bad befall it.“ “Didn’t you ever have a hat, grandma ? ” “Not exactly, dearie; but I had a bonnet when I was about your age, and well do I remember the sudden and awful end it cttme to. It was a ‘ seven-strand,’ made of wheat-straw that we’d gathered from the field when the kernel was in the milk. Father used to give us a little corner of his wheat-field for bonnet-straw. “Mother got Kizzy Trip, a spinster that went around the neighborhood making bonnets, to braid and sew mine; then it was hung in a barrel and bleached over burning sulphur. I dare say it was as big as a peck basket, but I thought it a wonderfully beautiful bonnet.

“I hadn’t had it very long when our hauling-bee took place.” “What’s a hauling-bee, grandma?” said Nan, hanging her hat carefully on the tall post of grandma’s chair. “Oh, it was a gathering of men and great yokes of oxen to haul buildings from one place to another. Father had built him a new barn, and the little house we lived in was going to be drawn close to it for an ell to the new house he meant to build when he got able. “It was a long distance from the barn, and down hill part of the way. It had only one room, and was low, so it wasn’t very heavy. We didn’t move out, for we had nowhere to go. “Mother kept right on weaving at the long web of ‘wale,’ and Sally and I had to wind the quills; but I’m afraid they had ‘naughty noses’ we were in such a flutter to see all that yvas going on. “Father had put long ‘shoes,’ or ‘skids,’ beneath the house, like the runners of a great sled, so that it would slide along easier. “The men came early, with more than twenty pairs of oxen, which were hitched in three strings—two at the corners of the house and one string in the center—and at the word the drivers all plied their long goads, and such shouting! You could have heard them a mile: “ ‘Hi.' hi! hi! Gee up! Haw, Bright!’” and grandma’s eyes sparkled as she described the exciting scene. “The little house was jerked forward and all the beams and timbers groaned and cracked. Down came the pewter plates off the dresser and scurried over the floor, the brass kettle tumbled off its peg with a gr§jjt rattling and the cradle rocked crazily. “Baby Joe screamed, little Jake dashed under the bed that stood in one corner of the kitchen, and for a moment I was tempted to crawl after him. But mother said there was no danger, so I got very brave at once. “In a little while I found that brother Toby had climbed, by a short ladder i i the loft, out through the chim-ney-hole in the roof and was having a ride on the ridgepole. “I always tried to do everything that Toby did. But I meant to ride in style, so getting my bannet, unbeknown to mother, out of the big red chest that stood under the eavei, I put it on and clambered out after Toby. “I could climb like a monkey then, but the lurching and jerking when the house stopped and started, as it did every few yards, made me dizzy. We kept prbtty still and the men were so busy they didn’t pay attention to us. “We got along all right till we were near the old ‘pulky hole,’ a kind of mucky place where some bushes grew, when all at once the oxen started and began to bawl. They had run the eaves of the house into a big hornets’ nest in the bushes. “Such a time as there was then! The oxen took to their heels and pulled with mad fury. “Jerk—jerk! Bump—bump! “They roared and kicked and lashed their tails; the men got bushes and fought the hornets as thev ran. At last the house brought up with an awful crash! Snap went the chains and away galloped the oxen, snorting and bellowing. “My bonnet tumbled off at the first plunge and the house had gone over it. and when the house struck I followed it, rolling over and over down the low roof. “By good luck the bushes broke my fall into the ‘pulky hole’ and I wasn’t hurt much, except that my nose got a twist that it hasn’t got rid of to this day. and I was covered with mud. “We had to stay there two days before we conquered those hornets so the neighbors dared to come again with their oxen, and in our battles we all got stung more or less. „ “But I didn’t feel half so badly about that, or even my twisted note, as I did over the loss of my bonnet.”— Ybulk’s Companion.

Chicago's Baby Drumnie-, Any child can make noise with a drum; to beat a careful accompaniment to a musical selection is an ac compli hment bestowed upon few' of tender years. Saul Rogers Woolf, one of the mo-t remarkable of Chicago’s wonderful children, has received this gift in great measure. It was born with him. No one educated him to his marvelous performances. One of the first things (hit his baby ha ids grasped was a drum, and all toys ba\e been thrown aside whe iit was near. ] rom the age of two his practice has been steady and his performance wonderful. Saul i s the four-year old son of Henry Woolf, of 152 Blue Island avenue, and made his first public appearance the other evening at an entertainment in Madison Street Theater, where he drummed an accompaniment to his mother’s piano selections.

The onl v way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he was poor; which a:e Esteemed the worst part of poverty.