Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Edwin Booth’s period of retirement \*ust be nearing its end. The tragedian’s name appears very frequently in the papers these days. Mb. Bellamy’s “Looking Backward,” the London Academy violently nays, is “of an ugliness so gross and a vulgarity so pestilent that it deserved the bonfire and the hangman.” A Chicago man has invented an electric drill with which he proposes to bore a hole to the center of the earth. Maybe he will decide to bore clear through the earth and make a whistle •of it. Thebe was one incident in the Emperor William’s visit to London which -shows conclusively that he is a man of -excellent judgment in some respects at least. He got quite badly stuck on an American girl. The Dressmaker in its last issue has this: “We are now assured that the business woman’s dress is to consist of a pair of trousers, a roundabout coat, and a hat.” Then it will be the husbands and brothers’ turn to adopt the cry of “Nothing to wear.” John Camebon, for whose supposed murder John Marion was hanged at Beatrice, Neb., March 25, 1887, has turned up alive and well. Here is some ammunition for the anti-capital punishment folks. Mr. Cameron ought to do the hadsome thing by Mr. Marion’s heirs.

It is pleasant to note a goo I law relating to medical matters, and of this kind is that enacted by the California Legislature, which establishes a State hospital for inebriates, and provides for their commitment under the same conditions as those for the commitment of lunatics. The barbers of Kansas City recently resolved to do no shaving on Sunday. But as that is the only day in the week that the people of that town indulge in such a luxury, the barbers have called a meeting for the purpose of considering the propriety of rescinding the original order. Tob the purpose of demonstrating the laxity of the New Jersey marriage laws a Philadelphia reporter strolled -over into Camden the other evening and was married five times in rapid succession. To make the story complete and symmetrical he should go to Chicago and see how swiftly all five ties can be cut. The summer climate of Liberia, where Uncle Sam maintains a minister, is said to be a trifle warm, and a Chicago man has refused the appointment. Here is an opportunity for come unhappy denizen of sun-baked Manhattan Island to exchange summer climates where the difference will not be worth mentioning. ■ a.. -■ ■ • .

■A New York girl has had a mustache grafted on her upper lip. This is right in the line of the evolution in New York’s society. The dear boys of •Gotham are said to do fancy work and wear bifurcated skirts and use powder, so the girl with the mustache can fairly be accepted as the first example of Mother Nature’s universal reciprocity. The story that a young English lady on a ranch in Montana subdued the rage of a herd of wild bulls, who were about to gore her, by walking boldly up to them singing the soldiers’ chorus from “Faust” is incomplete. The narrator forgot to add that upon recognizing the air the intelligent animals immediately joined in, playing it beautifully upon their horns. The recent terrible railroad accident in France is said to have been intentionally caused by some fiend in human form. It is easy to believe this after reading the account of the mob which gathered to see the recent •executions in Paris. To such people ■causing a railroad accident involving the death of fifty or a hundred people would be little more than a jjastime. Ed Howe, of the Atchison Globe, takes time enough from his literary labors to observe: “It is proper to take fried chicken in your fingers ■when you eat it, and to bite the corn •■off the cob.” It is unnecessary to add that an anxious puhlio will hail with •deepest satisfaction the settlement of these much mooted questions. Heretofore there has been considerable -doubt about what was just the proper .thing to do. i The Salton flood has afforded East•ern space-writers an opportunity for working off upon an unsuspecting -public a lot of weird tales concerning the Colorado desert which in most -oases are the rankest nonsense. Some of the most prominent journals, and those, too, which ought to know bet- ■ ter, have allowed their columns to be filled with matter which bears on its lace the imprint of untruth, outrivaling as it does the fairy tales of the early Spanish explorers in regard to the deserts of the Southwest. ' A man in Boston who was brought -up at the police court for drunkenness did not escape a fine, though it was his first offense within a year he could not have been punished under the new Massachusetts law. The justice fined .Jiim for snoring. The snores which he