Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

' Motto for Congressmen: “Put a bill in the slot and get an appropriation —maybe.” If Henry Watterson does not quiet down soon an impression will get abroad that his goddess is cross-eyed. The shop of an undertaker in Candelaria, Nev., hears the following sign: “You kick the bucket. We do the rest.” The fact that Speaker Crisp was formerly an actor is not likely to aid him in his new position. If he had only been the interlocutor in a minstrel show, though! It will cost nearly $1,000,000, it is said, to put new wings on the White House. What we need more than this is new wings for certain politi dans in that neighborhood. Though your friends tell you that their latch-string is always out, we have noticed that if you call on them unexpectedly, you will get little else for your dinner but apologies. A new edition of the Bible is being prepared by some American scholars. If they wish to dispose of modern skepticism they would bettor add a foot-note giving the authority for that whale story. * Publishers of religious papers ' make a mistake when they try to force their publications upon unwil- ! ling people, as in the case of the Baptist editor with Col. lngersoll. But Ingersoll’s rude fling at the faith of a great denomination does not suggest that he has a higher plane as a gentleman than the impertinent editor. Twenty prisoners in the Michigan penitentiary are to be released because of the decision that the law providing for undeterminate sentences—under which they were sent to prison —is unconstitutional. It is no new thing to see rascals go unpunished because of legal technicalities, but a wholesale release of convicts is a new thing even for quib-' bling lawyers.

1 France has lost no time in moving Into line with Russia's policy, and has picked a quarrel with Bulgaria because that plucky little nation has expelled a French journalist, who was maligning all things Bulgarian. Will France now take the liberty of going up past the Sultan's forts into tiie Black Sea, with a view to giving Bulgaria a lesson? This would be pretty certain to bring about a disturbance in Europe. Kino Leopold of Belgium, who passes for a very liberal monarch, has just been entertaining at lunch several hundred workmen long engaged on the repairs of one of his palaces. This is mentioned in the European papers as indicating a wondrous con descension of kingship. But it will hardly attain the end for which it was done. Belgium is filled with workingmen's societies between which and monarchy there can be no reconciliation. There is sore trouble in Harvard College because a secret society brands its novitiates on the arm with lighted cigars. “Six deep and savage burns from elbow to shoulder” is the way in which a young gentleman recently initiated into this organization of educated youth characterized the ordeal. Under the present theories of higher education the parent who sends a son to college should cultivate the same spirit of resignation to possible disaster manifested by him who sends his first-born to the war. It may Iw felt that the action of toe Belgian Government in prohibiting the exercise of hypnotism for exhibition unless permission is given by aapecial license costing 20,000 francs Is a trifle arbitrary, but there can be no question of the general assumption that the hyhnotic power is too dangerous to be a legitimate means of popular amusement. Physicians and scientists are still at liberty to make scientific investigations, but in Belgium, at least, there is to be no more idle trifling with the mysteries of hypnotism. German newspapers are printing toe assertion that the weight of the World’s Fair buildings will cause toem to break through the crust of toe earth, with the result of precipitatin r the entire city of Chicago forty feet and submerging it under Lake Michigan. But nobody need ■toy away from the fair on this account. It is probable that the German papers are mistaken, but if toeir prophecy were fulfilled the city and the show would go on just the same. Chicago is not only a phoenix In a fire—it is a duck in a deluge. The elements are Chicago’s most humble servants. Peof. Bilhoth, in an address in Vienna recently on casualties in battle, said that the percentage of combatants wounded by bombs or cannon halls on modern battlefields is slight compared with those incapacitated by rifle bullets. From observations of battles in the Franco-Prussian war he found that -wounds Inflicted by cavalry or artillery are comparatively tare. About 80 per cent, of all casualties were inflicted by bullet wounds, If per cent, came from artillery and 5 per cent by the saber or bayonet. Furthermore, it is a fallacy to suppose that tbe majority of wounds caused hy artillery or bombs end fatally. The deduction is that the principal