Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

1 There are to be 1.000 ecoks employed at the World's Fair, and New York will unquestionably discover in the fact evidence that the broth will *be spoiled. : Under her accustomed diet of dogs’ (flesh the plucky young woman in Indiana, encouraged by her physicians and friends, has managed thus far to keep pup wonderfully. Someone has invented a gun which will fire under water. This appears ■to be a rascally attempt to pursue the United States navy to its chosen resting place in the bottom of the ocean. A Chicago judge has flatly refused to hold court in the room provided for him on the ground that it is dangerous to his health and the health of those who have business in the court The chrysanthemum may be a fashionable flower, but a posy that looks like a bunch of French sliced pot a toes dipped into stewed tomatoes can (never appeal to the hearts of the people. You will be disappointed if you build your hopes of happiness on living in some other town or country. Wherever you go, you will still be yourself? and will carry your aches and pains with you. A baby that is born on Sunday is popularly supposed to be a favorite of fortune. The chances are that the legend will be borne out in the case of the Astor baby, especially as his inheritance will amount to about *150,000,000. If the next orator who has to respond to the toast “The Press” at a banquet would just consider that it was the wine-press he was to honor be would avoid the utterance of many « stale platitude and touch his hearers at a tender point. I ' The New York AVorld printed the portraits of ten Gotham capitalists whose wealth aggregates nearly SBOO,000,000. The most striking feature about them is that they look like almost any other ten men that could be picked up at random anywhere.

i Sir Morrell Mackenzie has aroused much discussion of the question: “Should clergymen smoke?” Since everybody knows that they will, it would be at once a pity and a grave error of policy for the church authorities to prove that they should not. The long catalogue of vices contained in the pastoral that the Methodist Ecumenical Conference has sent out to the churches might seem to indicate a remarkably comprehensive knowledge on the part of the authors of the letter of the sharp practices and evils of this wicked world. The number of through lines, of railroads, the demand for the canal across Nicaragua, and the increased emigration to the far W.est, all point to a great boom in the commerce of the Pacific in the near future. “Westward the star of empires takes its way”—is something more than poetic fancy. is a certain pathos as well as a degree of suggestive ness in the story that a little Indian boy recently staggered the Superintendent of tbe Pine Ridge Agency by asking timidly if there was any immediate danger of an uprising of the white people. There are always two sides to the shield, It does look a good deal as if the Chicago police were frightened at their own shadows when they made their recent raid on the' alleged “anarchists.” And yet it cannot be forgotten that on one occasion—and that not so long ago—they were as much too dilatory as they have now shown themselves too previous. There is a revival of the rumor that Lillian Russell, the queen of comic opera, is again about to wed. As Miss Russell has already ventured twiee on the sea of matrimony, it is apparent that she is not quite ready to pronounce marriage a positive failure. She may be a believer in the base-ball proverb, “three times and out.” A Boston lawyer relates that not long ago a jury went out early in the day on a simple case, and, when it bad got near time for the court to rise, his honor sent for them. He asked the foreman if he required any further instruction. The foreman replied: “Your honor, here are eleven pig-headed men who won’t agree to anything.” Press dispatches recently appeared In the newspapers from Copperopolis, Col., and Paragould, Ark. Whoever named these two towns were possessed of talents in nomenclature which were certainly unique, possibly useful. Certainly no letter addressed to any one in either of them is likfely to go astray, for there are no other such names on earth. Almost a daily news item is an account of a man who goes away to make a fortune for his family, stays fifteen or twenty years without communicating with them, and then is horrified, when he comes back, to And that his wife was married during his aasenee. He evidently thinks she should hare earned the living, reared the family, and then should bare