Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1891 — Page 4

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Ohio’s grape crop per acre is worth three times that of California. It is reported that $40,000,009 of British capital is invested in Paraguay. French statesmen have offered sl,000 reward for the best athletic game. The London Religious Tract Society last year issued 77,000,000 publications. « The once mighty Indian population of the United States has dwindled to 244,075. Lead in the United States amounted in 1890 to 187,000 tons of 2,000 pounds, or a little less than in 1880. Among a f ock of blackbirds that vis- , ited Gardner, Miss., a few days ago was /ne that was pure white. A patent has been taken out in France for an electric furnace for the rapid incineration of human beings.” Last year 4,559 books were published in this country; and nearly one-quarter of them (1,118) were works of fiction.

A manuscript of one of Aristotle’s treatises lias been found in a collection of papyrus recently discovered in Egypt. Check infant development in tyranny by strict obedience; then ■will the love of truth, honesty, and justice prevail. Ask the average man what time it is, and he will look at his watch, and say, “There is the time by which the sun is regulated. ” “This,” said the poor victim of •strongyirink, as he looked about him at the Inebriates’ Home, “is the house that jag built.” The average sinner is so occupied hiding his big vices that he does not realize that the world is laughing at his little ones. Just above Vienna, on the Danube, is the convent and school of Melk, which has just celebrated its one thousandth anniversary. Seaweed is now made into a tough paper, which takes the place of window glass. When colored the effect is similar to stained or painted glass Dakota has a 1.500-foot well, six inches in diameter, and throwing 4,000 gallons of water a minute. There are in that region wells 3,000 feet deep. “Dear wife,” said Sam Jones, in a dispatch to his wife the other day, “I licked the Mayor of Palestine, Tex., this morning; will preach in Tavlor to-night.” The atmosphere of London is said to be gradually becoming more and more harmful to plant life, and it is attributed in a large measure to the thick fogs. Westville, Ind., has a cow which quenches her thirst at the village pump, tossing the handle of the pump with her horns until sufficient water flows for her needs. By the late Duke of Bedford’s will not only his body was cremated, but several boxes of personal clothing, besides boots, slippers, and several walking sticks and umbrellas. Nineteen children have blessed the matrimonial life of Mr. and Mrs. Beeler, of Brooklyn, Ky., and they are all alive but one. The parents are under fifty-five years of age. ¥ - _ In the new discovery for photography in natuaal colors, when the prints are viewed by transmitted instead of reflected light, each color is replaced by its complementary one. John Jacob Astor and his bride rode in a freight caboose from West Point, Va., into Richmond, in order to escape the unpleasant attention of the gapping crowd and the reporters. Senator Peffer wants 500,000,000 new Treasury notes of the denomination of $1 issued. The Senator has doubtless been doing business with the sleeping-car porter since his election. Nearly 2,500 persons commit suicide in Russia every year; the violent deaths of all kinds annually reach 45,000; while 16,00Jdie of typhus fever, the most destructive disease in the country. • The chimney of a stove in Paris, refuses to draw; smoke fills the stove; workmen called in to investigate; finds object-in chimney; object turns out to be dead body of infant six months old. On November 24, 1887, a bottle was thrown from the steamer Cephaloaia, when about 400 miles out from Boston. It was recently washed ashore on a little island in the Caribbean Sea, 6,300 miles away. General Diaz, President of Mexico, is going to try a peculiar experiment in leaving his country to go to Europe. His strength in Mexico is mighty, but it is thought that it depends on his presence there. Mbs. Parsons uses the very same speech that her husband did, but no attention is paid to her utterances. This, perhaps, is a disappointment to her, but if she continues to travel around the country and endeavors to

kick up disturbances, it may be that she will get off at the wrong station some day. Poor old Philadelphia has just awakened to the fact that the Congressional appropriation for her new mint was lost in the final shuffle. She should engage some one to keep running a pin into her. More land w owned by railroad companies (211,009,000 acres) than would make six States as large as lowa. Since 1861 no less than 181,009,000 acres of land have been given to railroad companies. Detroit was for several years noted as having the most rigid milk inspectors of any city in the land, and, conof having the purest and best milk. It was such good milk that successful efforts were made to get rid of the inspectors. On only one occasion, and that probably as an experiment, Northern Minnesota showed 44 degrees below zero. Horses froze to death under two blankets, and deer were found frozen stiff in the forest. Three days of it would have paralyzed whole counties.

“Give us,” loudly and emphatically exclaims the New York Mail and Express, “more water and less beer!” The Colonel knows what he wants and is not afraid to say so. Some persons would have kept on ordering been rather than have any fuss about it. Two chemists are experimenting at Freeport, Pa., with a view of producing carbon points for electric lighting from natural gas. It is said that by burning the gas in a specially prepared furnace pure carbon is obtained, but as yet at a cost too great for practical purposes. A coroner’s jury in Vermont was given three days in which to reach a verdict on a boiler explosion, and they finally decided: “Bill Stevens was a pretty careful man, but we find that he let the water in his boiler get too low while playing a game of cards.” Young men in Mexico, when paving attentions to the young ladies, can do so at very little expense. They are quite eager to invite them to theaters, parties, etc. And no wonder; for it is the custom in that country for the lady’s father to pay for the tickets, fnrnish the carriage, etc. The London Electric Supply Corporation has finally succeeded in transmitting a 10,000-volt current. According to the statement of the directors, this current of unprecedented strength was sent from the company’s generating station at Depford to the Grosvenor substation. Hitherto the highest tension attained was 2,500 volts. A calculating genius has arrived at the fact that every time a cow moves her tail to switch a fly she exerts a force of three pounds, and that in the course of the summer a single cow wastes 5,000,009 pounds of energv. Hence the conclusion that the cows of America throw away power enough to move every piece of machinery in the world. The effort to employ good-lookißg young women as bill-collectors has not turned out very profitable for the New York merchants who paid them. After a fortnight’s experience, three of the women became engaged to men whom they tried to dun, two of them married, and a few of the others sympathized so deeply with the debtors that they receive none of them as desirable acquaintance's.’ Ireland has again been visited by a most alarming failure of the potato crop, and it is feared that there will be a famine of almost as great proportions as that terrible one of 1847, during which many died of actual starvation. Science has found a reasonably successful preventive for potato rot (Peronospora infestans), just as she has for grape rot (Peronos poraviticola). This potato failure in Ireland might have been almost entirely averted had the farmers sprayed “the leaves and stems of the young plants several times, at intervals of a few days—oftener in showery weather—with the following solution : Six pounds copper sulphate (blue vitriol) dissolved in ten gallons of water, to which six pounds of slaked lime is added. The forces of nature were utilized in a remarkable manner at the West , Hartford, Conn., reservoirs, and a good l deal of money was saved to the city [ thereby. The new reservoir, No. 5, : was drawn down last summer in order ;to be cleaned out. The job had not I been finished when cold weather came ■ on, about one-third of the bottom still i being untouched. The water was shut ■ out, but a small quantity of rain and ; melted ’snow soon covered the bottom with several inches of water. This : froze solid over the muck which covered the uncleaned portion of the reserj voir bed. Later on the gate was i opened and the reservoir allowed to 1 fill with water. Ao the water rose the layer of ice on the bottom rose also, bringing with it the mass of muck on which it lay and to which it was firmly attached. This operation was performed gradually, and the ice kept growing thicker. At length the water rose to its fall height, and then the ice with its burden of muck was hauled ashore, where it now lies. The bottom of the r< servoir was perfectly cleaned, and the work thus easily done would have kept a large gang of men at work for a considerable period.

THE SCIENTIFIC SHAVE.

Most Approved Manner of Robbing th* Winds ot Their Alleged Promenade*. There is a popular impression among those who patronize a barber from two to seven times a week that not a great many people shave thomselves. That this impression is decidedly erroneous may be easily learned by any one who cares to make even a cursury investigation. The fact is theie are thousands of people who shave themselves, and the custom is daily growing. Che idea that “time is money” is all right, but the other idea that time spent in waiting for a “turn” in a barber shop is money saved is being exploded. For men of leisure and means the luxury of a fine upholstered barber chair, the manipulation of a cleanly, expert barber, who uses only the best materials

HOW TO HOLD A RAZOR.

and the keenest tools, is not to be called into question, says the New York Press. That there is skill and industry required to get into the practice of shaving one’s self goes without saying. There are many men who would prefer to shave themselves if they only knew how to do it. With the view of getting some intelligent instruction upon this matter for the benefit of such, as well as for his own accommodation, the writer, who never shaves himself, called upon one of the most intelligent barbers in the city and requested him to give in a brief but clear way the necessary directions for shaving. He willingly complied, and here is in substance what he said: “When you are going to shave yourself prepare your lather from some pure soap with either warm or cold water (warm water preferred) until it comes to the consistency of cream, and apply it to the face with a pliable brush. You will then, if you desire the beard to cut without much resistance, rub the lathered surface vigorously with the thumb and the third and fourth fingers, lathering anew when you have rubbed sufficiently. Open the razor wide, grasp it firmly by the shank and handle and pass it rapidly up and down a canvas strap, reversing the blade with each' stroke. Next apply the blade to a Russia-leather strap made for the purpose. A good and well-made razor strop, with two or four sides, will answer the same purpose. Placing yourself before a mirror, with a bit of clean paper, free from grit, conveniently near, open the razor a little more than half-way, and you have reached the first position, which' is this: “Grasping the foreshank of the razor gently but firmly with the thumb and three fingers, and looping the little finger in the crescent of the shank, begin opposite the ear and work downward over the cheek toward the chin with a sort of saw motion, for the razor, you know, is a delicate saw. Lay the razor as flat upon the face as you can and make it cut smoothly.. This is

FIRST POSITION.

the downward cut. In shaving under the chin, you work the second position; “You will'notice that this plan of holding the, razor is not changed, but that the arm or wrist and forearm are almost reversed from the preceding position. In this way you proceed over the entire face, changing the arm to meet the demands of locality, but not necessarily altering the position of the razor. Experts use both hands, but the majority of men who shave themselves can use onlv one

SECOND POSITION.

hand, and naturally adjust the position of the razor as practice and use require. It is not a difficult task, and a little perseverance overcomes all obstacles. . There is a third position which single-handed shavers use. It is this: “To find the little places you may have missed, run the fingers of the unoccupied hand over the face, and if you want to shave close you mav clean off all the beard, even to the extent of going a day or two under the skin.

After ehaving, cleanse vour razor, wipe it dry and strop it before putting it away in a place free from any sort of

THIRD POSITION.

moisture. Wash the face with warm water first, then apply any good, pure toilet water preferred.”

A FOUR-LEGGED BOAT.

How British Indian Soldier* Hide Down a River on Elephants' Backs. The British Indian soldiers, during the recent Chin-Lushan expedition, went down the river standing on the backs of elephants, who swam for miles without any apparent fatigue. The accompanying"illustration is taken from a photograph. The native is protected from the sun’s rays by an urn-

A HIDE DOWN THE RIVER ON AN ELEPHANT.

brella and the elephant keeps his trunk dry by raising it alove the wa er.

What to Do with the Hands.

It is a great problem with a certain class of people to know what they shall do with their hands. They are unwilling to work at anything worthy the name of work, tired of ordinary amusements, and really worried to find some way of passing the time. A leading fashion paner contains the following advice on the use of the hands, which illustrates what some people do with theirs: “My dear fellow,” said a society woman of great candor to an awkward, timid young Harvard graduate whom she was to present, “you have any amount of talent, you have position, you have money, but you never will be at your ease, never show at your best, until you know what to do with your hands and feet. You must lose them, forget them, be unconscious of them.” We hope that none of the Farm, Field and Stockman boys and girls will ever have to forget that thev have hands. We believe that these hands of ours were given us for some better use than to sit with them gracefully folded in our laus or hanging in “unconscious” idleness at our sides. God meant them for work, and gave us all our duties to perform. Every bov or girl who fails to do his duty is a. shirk and deserves nothing but disdain. It is not only ours-elves that we are to look out for in this world, but others who need care and help, and if we haven t all our hands can do working for ourselves, the part of every noble boy or girl is to “lend a hand” to some one else. A button sewed on brother’s coat, a half-hour’s spading in sister’s flower-bed, an armful of wood brought for tired mother, an afternoon given up to taking care of baby, these are ways of using th? hands which are open to all boys and girls every day, and it is by doing these things that they amount to something in this world. " “Hand” some is as “hand” some does is a proverb that recognizes a better use for the hands than merely to look well. Handsome really means handy or useful, and only came to mean beautiful because people understood that nothing could be really beautiful that did not have some useful occupation. Our hands are wonderful instruments and capable of almost any work to which we may put them, "from the mighty fist of the blacksmith, which he could use if necessary for a hammer, to the dainty trained hand of the watchmaker, accurate and sensitive to the finest degree. So never be ashamed to use your hands.— Farm, Field and Stockman.

Pikes Peak.

An exchange prints a story of a voung lady who went to Colorado for her health, and while sojourning at Manitou fell into conversation with a gentleman on the hotel piazza. The gentleman remarked upon the grandeur of Pike’s Peak, which towered majestically before them. The young lady expressed her appreciation of the wonderful spectacle. “I suppose.” said the gentleman, after the conversation had proceeded a little way, “that the mountain has a peculiar interest to me from the fact that my own name is Pike.” “Naturally it would.” answered the lady, promptly: “and I may add that my own enthusiasm is probably increased bv the fact that mv name is Peak.” The coincidence was extraordinary, and the story has strong marks of truth. If it had been made up, the inventor would almost certainly have gone on to say that the acquaintance thus happily begun soon ripened into friendship; that this in turn gave place to sentiments of a tenderer nature, and that the young woman soon became, like the mountain itself, Pike’s Peak.

CHICAGO’S NEW MAYOR.

Hampstead IVaxhburne a Representative of Distinguished Servitors of the pleThe most hotly contested Mayoralty fight that the city of Chicago ever experienced ended ia the election of Hempstead Washburne, Republican. Hempstead Washburne comes of a distinguished family, whose American history begins with John Washburne. who was the first secretary of the Council of Plymouth. The name has figured in many of the great events in our national history from this pilgrim father down. The great record of Elihu B. Washburne, of whom the just elected Mayor of the great city of Chicago is the son, is the common property of his countrymen. There were seven brothers of this distinguished family, Israel, Jr., Algernon Sydney, Elihu 8., Cadwalader C., Samuel 8., Charles E., and William D., all now dead except the last named, who represents Minnesota in the Senate of the United States. At one time three of the brothers were in Congress at the same time, Israel, Jr., from Maine, Cadwalader C. from Wisconsin, and Elihu B. from Illinois. Among the Washburnes were four Congressmen, two Governors, two United States Ministers to foreign governments, and two distinguished soldiers. The father of the new Mayor, whose history is closelv identified with that of the State of Illinois, was born in Maine in 1816, having come of a progenitor who fought, through the

HEMPSTEAD WASHBURNE.

Revolutionary war from Lexington to Ticonderoga. Hempstead Washburne has already shown himself possessed of many of the qualities for which his father was known. Like him, he is an uncompromising Republican and believes in the principles of that party with all his sou'. He is a native of Illinois, but ■was educated at the home of iris ancestors in Maine, and attended the same school at Kent’s Hill in which his . father prepared himself for cdllege. Graduating there in 1871 he immediately joined his father in Paris, where he witnessed many of the stirring scenes which preceded the formation of the French republic. He then entered the celebrated University of Bonn, in Germany. Here he studied two years, and then returned to America to finish his education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He graduated in 1874 and w’ent to Chicago, being the first of his family to select that city as his home. Entering the Union College of Law and being duly admitted to the bar, he began the practice of his profession there, ana was appointed master in chancery by Judge : Elliot Anthony in 1876. He served in this capacity until 1885, when he was elected city attorney by the Republicans, who re-elected him to a second term. He was a faithful servant, and a just prosecutor. *' TLo young Republicans of the Fourth Congressional district sought to make him their candidate for a seat in the national legislature in 1888. but when Congressman Adams became the prefer-

DE WITT C. CREGIER, THE RETIRING MAYOR

ence of that body of his party, he turned all his energies to the support of the successful man. It was his first defeat, but it did not change his fealty and allegiance as a Republican, pure and simple.

Why Doe. Woman Seek Improvement?

It is a difficult question to decide whether women seek to improve themselves for the sake of the effect it may have on men, or pimply for their own pleasure. More particularly do you find this a poser when you learn for the first time that there are upward of twenty of the best known belles of New York who are taking lessons in skirt dancing. This statement sounds incredible, but it is a fact. Exactly what use proficiency in skirt dancing can be to a young lady, to a young bride, or to a young mother, is difficult to discover. Also how the development of a girl’s kicking power will find for her greater favor in the eyes of her serious admirers. At a dinner given this week there were four of these energetic young beauties present, one of whom stoutly defended the idea. She said its object was simply to make them supple and graceful. “Why not calisthenics?” interrupted a man. “Because we do not want muscle: we want grace of carriage and movemen’.'’ As a matter of fact, however, this is one thing that an American woman need not cultivate. She is born with it. —Ntiv York Truth.

SPOILED THE ELOPEMENT.

A Goat Encaged in a .Nocturnal Prow* Smashed a Romance to Piece*. Not long ago a young lady who desired to get up with the lark, in order to go on an eloping tour, adopted the schoolboy’s plan, and the lover was tobe on hand at daybreak to give the signal. The string used for the pedal communication was a stout cord, and one end was dropped out of the third-story window into the back yard, and the other end, of course, was attached to the damsel’s great toe. The legend runs that a healthy goat of the William persuasion arose early next mornings and wandered into the yard. After eating up all the old sardine tins, barrel staves and broken crockery, he found the string and took that in as dessert. As soon as the string was drawn taut the goat stood upon his-

THE GOAT SPOILED THE ELOPEMENT.

hind legs and gave an impulsive jerk. The girl awoke. The goat gave another sudden pull, and the maiden jumped nut of bed with a smothered cry of pain. Then she stooped down to detach the cord just as the ridiculous beast gave another violent jerk, and she nearly ■lost her equilibrium, and her toe, too, the cord cutting into the tender flesh. She sprang to the window and called down in a hoarse whisper: “Stop pulling, Harry. I’ll be down in a minute. ” Then she made another effort to lihtie the cord, but the persistent goatgave his head several angry bobs, and each time the girl uttered a cry of pain. Again she called into the darkness: “Harry, if you don’t stop jerking like that I won’t come down at all.” She was answered by another savage pull, and the cry of anguish that escaped her brought her mother into the room with a look of affright and a. lighted lamp. The young lady fainted, the elopement was nipped in the bud, and the disappointed ma’den’s toe was sore for a month. The goat escaped.—* Sheffield Telegraph.

FROM NEWSBOY TO MAYOR.

Philadelphia’s Chief Executive Has' a Remarkable Record. The career of Edwin S. Stewart, the recently elected Mayor of Philadelphia, is a most remarkable one. Twenty-five years ago, at the age of 12, he was a newsboy, this vocation being all that stood between his mother and himself and starvation. His pluck won him friends, however, and two

EDWIN S. STEWART.

years later he was general utility man in a book store. From that time hisrise was rapid. His employers recognized his worth and his promotions were rapid. Now, Mr. Stewart has one of the finest libraries in the country and has a complete knowledge of books and the book trade. Mr. Ster.’art has been identified with local politics for a number of years and his election as Mayor was a natural consequence. His majority was 40,000.

African Explorers.

It is told that the first explorer who crossed Africa expended in so doing nearly ten years, while the last occupied barely a year. A list of explorers who have crossed Africa shows that from 1802 to 1811 the feat was accomplished by a Poruguese, Honorato de Costa; 1838 and 1853, by FrancescoCoimbra and Silva Porto; in 1854 by Dr. Livingstone; in 1855 by Gerhard Rohlfs; in 1874 by Lieut. Cameron and Mr. Stanley; then by Serpa Pintoand the Italians Mattenio and Massari; next by Lieut. Wissman, from 1882 to 1884; and recently the Scotch missionary Arnat, the Portuguese Capollo and Ivans, the Sweede Lieut. Gleerup.who occupied the least time, crossing from Stanley Falls to Bagamoyo in sir months; the Austrian Dr. Senz; Mr. Stanley for the second time, and finally Capt. Trivier, the French traveler.