Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1891 — OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. [ARTICLE]

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

Sage’s Assassin. The only safe lunatics are those who are under rigid restraint.—New York Tribune If some restraint is not put upon the use of dynamite and such convenient explosives aw will soon be as powerless with ns as in Bulwer’s imaginary country.—Louisville Commercial. Russell Sage has probably sold more puts and calls than any other ten men in America, but it was a startling novelty to have a dynamite bomb put at him immediately after a call for a million dollars.—Cleveland Leader-Herald. If a suspicious stranger calls on you and demands' .81.000,060 lose no time In sitting down and writing a check for that amount. In tho light of recent events the Jour: al feels justified in offering its readers this advice.—lndianapolis Journal. The attempt on the life of Russel) Sage in New York sh ws tho necessity of the most rigid togulations with respect to tbe use of such explosives as dynamite, with severe penalties to be visited upon persons found with such articles in their possession unless duly authorized.

Electric Executions. The Legis'ature ain ed to shock, not roast, its crin tna's to death by electricity. — : New Y’ork Commercial Advertiser. Is electrocution torture? This is the question, and science should be able to furnish the answer.—New Y’ork Recorder. The execut'ons by electricity are a monstrous scandal. No civilized co nmunity can permit such dreadful work to go on —New' York Times. The exceedingly brief treatment of the event by the press generally must commend itself to the cranky gentlemen who drew the law under vvh.ch the execution was done —Providence Telegram. The electrocution of the wife murderer Loppy, at Sing Sing, is pronounced a success by the attending physicians. Mr. Loppy's opinion on the subject has, however, not been published.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat,

The Earthquake in Japan. Japan’s home market for earthquakes seems to be overstocked, and judging by the destruction of life and property, the consumers pay the tax.—Cleveland Press ■ The recent earthquake in Japan will pass into history as one of the greatest catastrophes of the century. Over 5.000 lives were lost, 43,000 houses totally dest oyed and 158,000 persons rendered homeless. Japan has frequently experienced seismic disturbances, but none so disastrous as this one. —Quincy Whig. The details of the recent earthquake in Japan show that the disturbance was on a colossal scale and that the resulting catastrophe was full of horrors. To have who e cit es overthrown and fire to follow arid destroy what the earthquake left is a prospect which must appall any people, even one accustomed to earthquakes of the ordinary pattern.—Washington Star. Tlie Onion Upheld. It has been decided in Chicago that a school cannot be dismissed by the teacher because some of the scholars have eaten onions—Phi adelphia Call. The place for the onion-eater is in the so itude of the fields or the bedchamber with the windows well down.— Philadelphia Inquirer. Miss Merrill, a fastidious school teacher in Chicago, is in trouble because she insists upon sending boys home who eat onions before coming to school.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Nothing less than a danger to the health of the school at large will justify sending a pupil away from the schools, which are sustained for the education of the children of the whole people.—Pittsburg Dispatch. A Chicago teacher sent a child home from school? because his breath smelled of onion-’, and the Superintendent of Schools has reprimanded her for "it. Chicago believes in a free diet as well as free schools.—Poston New.-’, The New Congress. Congress presents as striking a change in its persona lty as iu its partisanship. The number of now members is unprecedented —Troy Press. The new Congress has a great deal of new material in its make-up. there being 141 members who appear for the first time on the floor. —Lafayette Journal It is like'y to be a stormy session, but whether it will be or no it will be full of interest, and upon it will depend in no small degree the issues and the lines of campaign next summer.—New York Mail and Express.Tlie Crip. Plenty of the grip in Cincinnati, but not difficult to handle if you keep cool.— Cincinnati Enquirer. The grip in Germany is reported to be far more virulent and fatal than on its former visit.—St. Paul Globe. The grip appears to be on another annual tour, and it will soon be the thing to ascribe every variation of that tired feeling to its grasp.—Philadelphia Ledger.