Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

gathered his fewremaibing tail feathers under him and shrieked with fear. Arthur L. Perry, the widely-known professor of political economy in Williams College, has resigned. He is 61 years of age, aud has been an instruct tor in the college for thirty-eight years. Yet he had sufficient vitality to kick an impudent student out of his house, aud this was the cause of the Professor’s resignation. Plans for the irrigation, both in upper and lower Egypt, during the periods of low water in the Nile include the building of a high barrage across the river at the first cataract. Great opposition has been excited against this proposition, as it involves the submersion of the beautiful island of Philoe and its beautiful monuments for several months each year. Dwarf trees, only two feet high, exact reproductions in miniature of sycamore, oak, cedar, and apple trees, have for two or three hundred years been raised by the Japanese. The mode of producing them is a wellguarded secret. Some French gardeners have within the past five years almost equaled the Japanese in the production of these dwarf trees. Two hunters near Beading, Pa., stole a bear’s cub the other day and were pursued by the mother. After running until they were almost exhausted they stopped, and the man with the cub, taking it by the hind legs, attacked the mother. He beat her acoss the nose with her offspring so hard that she finally fled, leaving the hunters with the cub, which was dead. “Women’s ways are past finding out.” This was the comment of a bereaved husband on reading his wife’s will, which was reoently admitted to probate in Kansas City. She generously bequeaths to her beloved husband the sum of five dollars, with au emphatic request that he refrain from spending it recklessly. The rest ol her fortune, amounting to over SIOO,OOO, she leaves to distant relatives. A London letter filled with advioe relative to female beauty, gives as a recipe for fattening the neck a nightly application of olive oil,well “rubbed into the skin and bones.” Thi# treatment, “if persevered in for two or three months, will be found most gratifying in its results.” This idea of “rubbing into the bone" may be a necessity with the English maiden, but it is uncalled for in America.

Imagination caused a Bhort but alarming illness to a resident of Wicasset, Maine. He discovered a big gash in his boot where he had cut his foot while in the. woods, aud just managed to get home, feeling himself growing fainter from the loss of blood all the way. At his home it was soon learned that the gash only went through his boot, and the red color was not blood, but only a red woolen stocking. An investigation of the result of eating fish preserved on ice for use in London markets has lei to the discovery that those fish are most dangerous which had been kept in immediate contact with the ice. Poisoning by fish which had not been in contact with ice was not observed at all. This is attributed to the influence of the water derived from the ioe and bearing whatever impurities it had had before being frozen. Mr. Maxim is said to have practically perfected an engine of war that will fly -out of the range of the enemy’s guns and snugly drop a ton oiy soj>f dvnahute upon the Jiiemy’s devoted Sead, Plainly, at the rate destructive inventions are going on now, if the great European war doesn’t come pretty soon the whole eastern hemisphere will be wiped off the face of the earth when it does arrive. That would be a great blow to tourists, but it would simplify American politics immensely.

A few years ago there was a nice old lady living around synolironously in several parts of this glorious country whose particular mis sou was to pull needles out of heels and elbows and other knobby portions of her anatomy —needles which she had unintentionally and unconsciously lost in the thick of her thumb many years before. We speak of her now because she has been out of print so long we begin to fear she has either been foully <Lalt with or been bought up by tli3 needle trust. When the earth was young, says the astronomer royal for Ireland, it went ! round so fast that the day was only three hours long. The earth was liquid then, and as it spun around and around at that fearful speed, and as the sun caused ever increasing tides upon its surface, it at last burst in two. The smaller part became the moon, i which has been going around the earth ever since at an increasing distance, i The influence of the moon now raises tides on the earth, and while there was any liquid to operate on in the moon the earth returned the compliment. A philanthropic St. Albans man is about to publish a book for private circulation among the farmers of New England, telling how summer boarders should be taken care of. The philosophy of the volume seems to be eminently sound, since the author reoommends leaving the boarder alone to do as he pleases, condemns the feather bedand lays much stress upon the attractiveness of good plain food, with abundant fresh milk and eggs. The author of such a manual as this does more good for his kind than all the Ibsens and Tolstois that were ever spawned.