Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

f New York for the rear 1890 received k total of 400,000 immigrants. Our schoolhouses should be made more homelike and cheerful. Many of them are veritable barns. A good head can afford to wear a mighty poor hat. But a good hat never adds value to a brainless head. Italian emigrants continue to arrive in New York at the rate of 2,000 a day. This fact is suggestive, to say the least, aiffi must make Budini stroke his whiskers thoughtfully. If it be true, as William Redmond says, that English juries are not gifted with much intelligence then it follows that what ails American juries is nothing more nor less than Anglomania. It is pleasant to know that Herr Most, the anarchist, has been sent to Blackwell’s Island, and that he is surrounded by water, even though he doesn’t let any of it touch his person. A new jimcrack in the hands of the street fakirs is a small savings bank into which the depositor puts his cash, which immediately disappears. The novelty consists in the fact that the bank is small. Prof. Slavin having gone to England and Prof.Snllivan being ong root to Austalia, these two eminent scientists will now for some time constitute and comprise the champion long distance debating school. Sir William Gordon-Ccmming is going to write a book. That is to say. having failed in pushing a few counters over the line, he is going to try the opposite course of pushing a few lines over the counter. One of Germany’s rich citizens has offered to give $25,000 to any one who will demonstrate that the sun, moon and stars are inhabited. If Mr. Pennington has “sand” he will get into his airship and make a tour of exploration without delay.

The Rev. Mr-Carswell, of Georgia, has gone over his figures again and found that he has made no mistake in his prophecy that the world is coming to an end in 1901. The wise man, therefore, will date his note to fall due after January 1,1902.

Sisters are great talkers. It would surprise the young very much if they knew how much Iheir sisters tell other young women about them. A young man has very few secrets he can keep from his sister, and she hasn’t any she can keep, from the girls she goes with.

Slavin and Sullivan are alike in two things; their surname begins with the same initial letter, and they have the same capacity for getting drank and acting as disreputably as is possible under the circumstanoes. Pugilists in their lighter moments prove themselves to be but a little higher than the beasts.

A little girl of Reading, Pa., shouted murder so lustily at the.sightof a mouse that several policemen and a crowd of passers-by rushed to assist her. When she grows up she will lecture on woman's rights and denounce the man who prefers to lie in bed while buglars ransack the cellar to disturbing them.

Rudyard Kipling is hale and hearty and is likely to live to write many more tales. The people of the United States would not wish the man to have a long illness, but they would not complain if he remained just sick enongh not to offend us with his insufferable egotism for a few yars. Give Rudyard a few years to ripen and he may be all right. It now appears that the French scientist who was reported killed and eaten by locusts in Algeria is alive and well. The origin of the story lies in the attempt of an Algerian newspaper man to write a funny parag/aph, which shows that, the world over, the newspaper humorist is one and the same, incomprehensible and fearfully and wonderfully made.

Though men are killed every day for walking upon the railroad tracks, other men continue to do it. It is as foolish a practice as that of a boy tying one end of a rope to a calf, and the other end to his waist, but boys do it every day. Ten men may be killed in ten days for doing a certain thing, but the eleventh man will do the same thing the same way on the eleventh day. Ouida, a law to herself, presumes to spank Master Rudyard Kipling thus: “A young man," with emphasis, “has of late been hailed as a fine writer, when he has neither knowlege of style nor common acquaintance with grammar, and should be whipped and put in a oorner like a naughty child for his impudence in touching pen and ink, without knowing how to use them.” It is said that Geronimo, the old Indian chief who used to like so well to look upon war and liquor when they were red, has now become an earnest Christian and an enthusiastic Sundayschool teacher. This is all well enongh, but about the time the old man applies lor orders and L wants to be sent to a