Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1891 — A Wide-Awake Dominte. [ARTICLE]

A Wide-Awake Dominte.

One of the best double puns we have, sver heard was perpetrated by a min-, later who had just united in marriage t couple whose Christian names were respectively Benjamin and Ann. “How did they appear during the seremony?” ho was asked. “They appeared both Anni-mated »nd Bennie-sited was the clever reply. No man does anything well who does lot feel the unknown surrounding and pressing upon the known, and who is not therefore aware all the time that what he does has deeper sources and more distant issues than he can com-] prohend. It is not only a pleasing sentiment, it is a necessary element of power —this reverence which veils its! eyes before something which it may not! know. Irreverence everywhere is’ blindness and not sight. It is the stare, which is bold because it believes ih its heart that there is nothing which its Insolent intelligence may not fathom,! »nd so which finds only whaf it looks for, and makes the world as shallow as it ignorantly dreams the world to be.— Rev. Phillips Brooks, D. DJ

Isaac N. Seligman, the New York banker, is regarded in financial circles is the ablest of what may be termed the second generation of the family whose name he bears, and it is an »pen secret that he is one of the prime faotors in the immense banking business and railroad interests they control. As the young man has made a thorough study of railroad engineering, »nd supplemented it by practical exEerience on a Western railroad system, e has an equipment which few finan;iers possess.

The number of arrests for drunkenness in Massachusetts for the year 1890 was 52,814, of whom only 5,882 were women. Forty-five thousand nine hundred and eighty-two arrests were piade in the twenty-five cities, and nnly 6,591 in all the rest of the State, the city population is 1,327,164; the! town population 911,779. The numberi Of arrests has increased since 1885 from (5,480 to 52,824 in 18fW, whatever the Bgures may mean. A Hindoo journalist declares that *manv crowned heads are trembling in' their shoes.” _ i