Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

' Too often fall dress for ladies seem to be full and running over. The proper thing to do with a crank in office is to turn him—out. The man who called “A spade, a spade!” probably needed one to All his flush. The exact facts as to Jerry Simp.son’s feet may be learned by inquiring of Santa Claus. The Russians have reached the “roof of the world.” and England intends to find out what they are rafter. Down in Texas a fellow killed a man, and it cost him in “fine and costs $37” to get out of it. Texas is moving. t St. Paul has a mighty strong name, but Minnie seems to have the knack of getting there when the bell rings. From the newspaper pictures it is evident that even if Russell Sage’s assailant was not a maniac he at least lost his head. A fireproof dress for balletdancers has been invented. This will enable the sprightly coryphees to have all the flames they want. Ward McAllister thinks that marriages between literary persons are seldom happy. Probably not among the literary people of Ward’s 400. A New York scientist thinks he has discovered the language of monkeys. When he has it fully at his command he might utilize it in writing a society novel. There are a good many cranks in Congress this year, but if their presence there will frighten Wall street men away from the capital they may count upon re-election. It is said that the man who cannot dance might as well resign claims to importance in New York City this Beason. All fashion has been on tiptoe studying the German cotillon. j Here’s the crucical test. John L. Sullivan is going to Dwight and learn as to the efficacy of the gold treatment. If Dr. Keeley can reform the professor the institution will have to be enlarged. About twenty-five hundred rabbits are shipped abroad every week by one Arm in Eaton Rapids, Mich. Rabbits are not eaten rapidly enough in Eaton Rapids, and hence — but this is a digression. Subscriptions are being taken up in England to provide a dowry for the princess who is going to marry “Collars and Cuffs.” There should be a law prohibiting the marriage of persons with no visible means of support.. An outlaw was arrested in Memphis a few days ago who claims to have killed ninety-nine men. It might not be a bad plan for the authorities to hang him for the sake of making the number an even hundred. i „ -- * “War has slain its thousands,” exclaims the Buffalo Express, “but the deadly grade-crossing has slain its tens of thousands.” Fiction never looks so insignificant, so helpless, so ! commonplace as when it bumps against a fact like this. Considering the flood of reminiscences concerning the acquisitiveness and parsimony of Russell Sage with which the press is now deluged, it seems that the dynamiter came out of that little affair with a better reputation than his intended victim.

It looks a little as though the Czar’s persecution of the Christian sect known as the Stundists were intended to take the edge from his persecution of the Jews. It was hardly necessary, however, for him to show that be is not particularly discriminating In his tyranny. A man has too much sense, as a rule, to build a ten-thousand-dollar-house on a thousand-dollar income, bat church people do it in the matter of churches. They think in their early enthusiasm that the Lord will provide, but the Lord never provides for anything that is lacking in good business judgment. The postoffice department is not always rapid, but it is sure. A citizen of a neighboring state has just had returned to him a letter mailed a year ago with a notice from the department that the person to whom it was addressed could not be found. The department has probably been employing Pinkerton detectives to hunt up the person. The New York correspondents are trying to make it appear that the opening of the opera season was more brilliant and fashionable in that city than in Chicago. This is simply incredible. No one will believe that people of wealth and refinement in the boxes in New York could have talked any louder during the pianissimo passages than they did in fj The proper place for the Bancroft library is in this city, the commercial, literary, artistic and political metropolis of the United States.— New York Pm*. Outside people have seen the j crying need for a few good books in