Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Miss Leale, of the Guernsey Rifle' Corps, has been adjudged the honor of being a Crack rifle-shot. Ha! the-man-afraid-of-a-burglar cap now take heart, with a wife skilled in the use of a Martini rifle. This is a much more useful accomplishment than making rick-rack insertion. Balmaceda secured for his memory a place it might not otherwise have had in the charitable consideration of mankind. Suicide affords so good a basis for the presumption of insanity that there will be a strong disposition to make the presumption in his behalf and date it back to the time when he forced the freedom-lov-ing people of Chili into rebellion.

An exchange makes the remarkable statement that “a huge crop of tramps is loose in New Jersey.” While it is a statement in little danger of contradiction that tramps are naturally loose in their habits, yet it is very singular that New Jersey tramps are not tight, since they can so easily get hold of such very effective “Jersey lightning.”

Whoever has observed the flight of a .hawk or condor will scarce have failed to wonder if here was not illustrated a principle the application of which would make aerial navation possible and practical for man. The great bird not only sails in lines and circles without moving muscle, but mounts higher and higher at will for long periods, maintain: ig the same immobility of muscle a■ d pinion.

If the United States should determine to take a larger financial interest in the World’s Fair it might be well to insist, as one of the conditions, upon a change of the name “Board of Lady Managers of the World's Fair” to “Board of Women Managers. ” There is no nobler term than woman to designate the female sex, while that of “lady” is so much overworked that its skirts show signs of wear.

There is a row about Patti’s age. The Bible in her castle has been stealthily consulted, and the date of her birth is fixed at Feb. 18, 1847. Then she must have been less than 10 years old when she sang in Cincinnati at Smith and Nixon’s Hall, near Viap street, on the north side of Fourth, with her sister, Mrs. Strakosch, and Ole Bull drew his magic bow with the diamond in it over his ancient violin.

A woman boarder in a New York boarding house went into her closet before retiring, *to hang up her dress. As she did so she .was aware of a strong odor of musk, a perfume she never used. Instinctively she closed the door and locked it before calling for help. Sure enough, a dudish burglar was discovered hidden among the clothes, and the loud perfume used had betrayed him. Musk, like murder, will out.

The horrible murders that recently occurred at West Bay City and Port Huron recall attention to the fact that Michigan offers no severer penalty for willful murder than for some crimes which do not involve the taking of human life. The worst punishment it Is possible for Michigan to inflict on murderers is to lodge them in State prison and furnish them with quarters, from which to begin at once petitioning for pardon.

A recent cablegram from London states that Americans returning from Germany are complaining bitterly that a crusade of “cutting” was made against them at Ilolmberg by the Prince of Wales set. Nobody in America will attempt to resent the “crushing” these toadies merited, This same class would probably get snubbed at home as quickly as abroad by the prince of baccarat. The tufthunter gets cold comfort all around.

Tiiere is always a large pecuniary stake on the isspe of civil war in South America, as there usually is'in the election of a President In a South American republic. The President who Is in and the ring tfho surround him find it necessary to elect a friendly successor to cover up their own jobbery and plunder. Failing in this, there is usually a bold grab made for any funds accessible in the Treasury, and safety is found in flight. Balmaceda did his best to live up to the rule of defeated Spanish-American Presidents, but the million of dollars recovered from a fleeing deputy was so nearly all his pile and his chances of a comfortable residence in Paris for the rest of his days appeared to be so slim that he concluded to end the struggle.