Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

[ The World’s Fair will bo a tiling of (beauty, even after dark, according to the plans devised by Electrician fearrett. I, A good many American ladies are hot going to Europe this season. The novelty of smuggling things home is porn off, and there is no longer any fun in it and therefore nothing to go for.

1 A new Boston law extends to all cittzens the proud privilege of getting idrunh twice a year. This provides for Fourth of July and Christmas Day, but leaves no margin to cover the glorious days when Sullivan wins a battle.

I It seems at this distance a little severe for English justice to doom a man to five years’ imprisonment for merely stealing a bundle of canes, but it must be taken into consideration that no real Englishman is oomplete without his walking-stick. A PCLI/-QBOWN crocodile from Florida escaped from its cage somewhere in New York a few days ago and nearly killed a man before it could be persuaded to go back. It takes some Southerners a long time to learn that the war is over. Now that the esteemed Judges of the Federal Court of Appeals have been tricked out in Mother Hubbard gowns, let all good citizens who can keep from snickering endeavor to emulate the laudable example of the lawyer who said: “No, your honor, lam not trying to show contempt for your court; I am trying to conceal it.” The signatures of the worthies who affixed their names to the Declaration of Independence have just been sold in England for $4,250, If any one could have delivered their bodies into the bands of the English about six months after the instrument was signed he would have made a larger sum than this—if he had convinced the authorities that he held the original set. They have suspended a school principal in Chicago because he would not sign a diploma for a son of a member of the book trust—thus certifying that he had completed a high-school course —when, as a matter of faot, the boy had refused to take up one study altogether. The action of the Superintendent and School Board is on a par with that of the fashionable lady who sends the servant to the door to say to a visitor that she is not in.

A Chicago doctor was horsewhipped by a woman because he presented a bill for attendance upon a patient whose case, it is claimed, he did not understand and whom he did not relieve. If this course, under similar circumstances, is followed with doctors generally, the profession, it is to be feared, will be diminished greatly in numbers. To ask a deqtor to understand every case he treats would be a new departure. It would be what they call “unprofessional.”

He was a wise man who, at a recent meeting of the Chicago Trade and Labor Assembly, opposed sending a representative to the coming international labor congress at Brussels. “We got a sufficient dose of suoh European labor leaders as will probably attend that congress at the Haymarket riots of *B6. As an American citizen I object to the introduction of such ideas as are likely to be promulgated at Brussels.” The majority was against him, but he had the right in the matter, as his associates will be ready to admit some day.

A ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE-TON gun is planned at the Watervliet Arsenal, which has just turned out a 12-inch 52-ton gun. If there is one thing more certain than another in modern ordnance it is that the 100-ton guns are all failures, dangerous, shortlived and useless. A 60-ton gun is big enough to smash in any iron-clad now afloat. To build a 125-ton gun—fifteen tons heavier than any now founded—is a ridiculous waste of money, and it is unwise for iho Ordnance Office to begin one with scant appropriations certain next winter.

Since we are in a monument-building era. and oar Irish-American fellowcitizens have caught the fever, why should they not signalize their admiration for Christopher by putting up a shaft in San DoWngo to the Irishman who accompanied Columbus there and wa3 left by him in the colony that remained when h 9 returned to Spain? His name was “Guillermo Ires, natural de Gainey, en Irlanda;” that is, William the lii-liman, of Galway. A Celtic cross of native Irish marble would be a picturesque incident on the shores of the creole republic. Electricity, by which such horrible sufferings were inflicted upon Kemmler, the murderer who was executed at Auburn, appears to have been emjJtoyei with complete auoeess in the execution of the four murderers at Sing Sing. None of the frightful scenes which rendered the taking of the former’s life so horrible were .repeated, and their deaths were punless and instantaneous. It was only necessary to de 1 oistrate that death can be produced instantly and without fin with electricity to do away with