Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1891 — CURRENT COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT.

The Convention. While Chicago is of course the best City to hold a convention of no objection can be found with the final choice.—Quincy Whig. The location of the convention in Minneapolis is the most sensible thing next to the selection of Chicago that the committee could have done.—Milwaukee* News. It is a great triumph. It so tifies immensely our piestige. It is in a la rgetense a national indoisement of thei metropolitan claims of this city —Minneapolis Journal. St. Paul can well rejoice with her sister city at this hour, for she, too, had a. finger in the pie, a shoulder to thewheel, and a band in the hot engagen ent—St. Paul Globe. This is a decided victory so- the Northwest. It is a recognition of thissection that a few years ago would havebeen impossible in national politics.— Oshkosh Northwestern. ’Rah for Minneapolis! Western enterprise has again won. It first wrested theWorld’s Fair f om the effete East andnow it capture a the Republican National Convention —Madison Democrat. Now if St. Paul will trim his whDkersand Minnie Apolis will get her best biband tucker, perhaps that wedding canbe arranged as a side att action io? thebig convention.—Detroit Journal. Republicans should never hesitate’ about selecting a place for their national, convention. In lact, either of the two great parties puts its delegates and friends to inconvenience when it fixes upon any ot’er city than Chicago.— Kansas City Evening Times. The choice of Minneapolis as the location of the Republican National Convention of 181*2 is not likely to have any material influence upon the nomination of candidates. There have been occasions when the location of the convention controlled the 1 residency.—Philadelphia. Times.

The Czar’s Ukase. The wheat-growers of America oughtto make a generous contribution for therelief of Russia's starv.ng hosts. If the Czar had been subsidi ed he cou'd not. have worked things bettor for this country.—Kansas City Times. It will not have, so pronounced an effect on our markets as it would havedone but for the fact that it had been, anticipated, but it is a strong bull argument, and will tend to advance pr ces,. both of stocks aud of grain —Philadelphia Telegiaph. A rumor in foreign countries that theexport of horses to foreign countrieswill soon be prohibited, leads to the impre: sion that some sinister motive rather than one of humanity lies at the base of the recent imperial edicts The belief is gaining ground that Russia's p ans lor a grand coup are nearing comp et.on.— Cleveland Plain Dea’er. The edict has already had a temporary influence as a stimulant to speculation, and has caused a slight advance in prices in the markets of this countr/an l in Europe, and it may be of further service to the spe ulators It would seem, however, that its efleet should have a ready been well discounted by the general foreknowledge of a situation demanding itspromulgation.—Philadelphia Telegraph.

Tried io Beat Tanner. The death of Stratton, the faster, ought to put an end to one era e.—Buffalo Express. The world is probtbly very little theworse for his end by what is practically a suicide, but it is about time for thes& exhibitions to stop —Pittsburg Dispatch. The death in New York of the professional faster, Stratton, is the direct result of the practice of dime museum managers in getting up unnatural “contests.” These museums have become public nuisances.—Albany Express Stratton, the fellow who tried to outfast Succi for pay in a New York dime museum, is dead The ordinary idiot excites compassion, but the fasting idiot creates a feeling of disgust—Baltimore World. Other men have succeeded in living without food for a similar period, but it was probably owing to a peculiar organism and practice of alstinence, and the test is of no practical value—lndianapolis Sentinel.. Governor Hovey. As Governor he had the confidence of the people of Indiana, regardless of party, and he will be truly mourned.— Milwaukee Wi csnsin. Since the war he has been the devoted friend of th s veterans of the Union armies and the champion of their cause in pension legislation.—Toledo Blade. Governor Hovev was not a great wan —not a census. He was rather a studious, judicious and just public officia', a brave soldier and a generous, warmhearted man.—lndianapolis Sun. Governor Hovey was a man of character, a brave soldier, a popular leader of R publicans and a man of the people, else he never would have been elected Governor of a Democratic State.—Toledo Bee. His career was a full and well-rounded one, honorable to himself, ho orab e to his State. Indiana can justly be proud of this one of her sons, whose death she mourns to-day and whose memory she will cherish. —Indianapolis News. Learning Monkey Talk. Pro'essor Garner, of the Smill sonian Institution, is going to extend his vocabulary of the languages of goril.as and chimpanzees by living in a cage in the heart of the African forest—Philadelphia Press.. Professor R L. Garner, who is going to Africa to study the language, of monkeys, has already studied their organs of speech. These have been popularly designated as barrel organs upto this time —Philadelphia Ledger. Drofessor Garner, who is studying the simian language, has already imbibed so much of the monkeyas to desire to have him-elf caged. H intends to put himself in a strong iron cage in the goril a country so that he can communicate •fc-ith them at pleasure. In that case it will be only a step from the man to the monkey.—Harrisburg Patrol. Odorless Whisky. The invention o' an odorless whisky is eagerly awaited by the auditor who goes out between the acts to blow a cinder out of a man’s eye,— Mum ph s AppealAvalanche. An odorless brand of whisky is the latest discovery. If there can be patented some way of preventing the stairs from dancing all over the front hall a man can pass the post-lodge-night catechism with an even show of success. Minneapolis Journal. Washington s Cyclone. The cyclone is no respecter of persons or pla?es, and is as much at home in the national cifsital as in the wild and woolly West Old Boreas on a jamboree has little respect for p ace or err-on. The White House and the poorhouso are all one to the old blowhard.—Louisville Times. The fact that the Republican National Committee and a cyclone struck Washington the same day is not partseu arly signifleant These coincidences will happen.—Buffalo Courier