Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1891 — THE TROUBLE EXPLAINED. [ARTICLE]

THE TROUBLE EXPLAINED.

[St. Louis Republic.] If we could swap work with Europe, one day’s work in wheat, corn or cotton, would give us a-day and a half of European work in merchandise, and here, in the exporting states, our prosperity would be ere it. But when we try to bring back European work in merchandise all the advantage of the trade for us is taxed out of it at the custom house, consequently our exports ar. cut down to the lowest notch and our agricultural surplus is kepi here to hold prices down until long after the farmor’s pr, ducts have left his hands. The difference between the Britan ica and all other Encyclopa dias consists in the fact that all the great subjects, of which there are 3000, are handled as a complete treatise, just the same as if you purchased a book on a particular subject, written by one of the best authors in the world.

A queer example of childish fearlessness and animal nature occurred on Montgomery street, Jersey City, Tuesday morning, when a littie toddler not over five years old and as broad as he was long tried to cross the Btreet. The little one’s mother was standing on the opposite curb evidently prepared to mete out a generous supply of punishment for some disobedience. When the baby was half way across the further track and calmly munching a big slice of cake, a horse attached to a doctor’s gig was brought on his haunche> to prevent what was seemingly a sure runover. Waiting until the horse was allowed to regain its fore feet the child held up its cake, out of which the spirited horse took a generous mouthful, and then taking another bite himself, the little one continued on its way toward a mother who had forgotten all about punishment in a hurricane of tears and kisses. —New York Commercial Advertiser.

The President of Yale College has said “He will defy any one to buy 3,000 volumes which will give him as good a working library as is furnished in the Encyclopaedia Britanniea.”