Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

rWhen “the curtain takes a drop” ft reminds so many thirsty people of something. The Emperor William has fewer ihappy days than the man who blacks the Emperor’s shoes. How much more careful people are to make warehouses for the storage of goods fireproof than flats were human beings only are stored. Edward Everett Hale gives a series of rules to enable people to look young at 70 years. They will be eagerly followed by all the “boy preachers. ” New York shoe and leather dealers have met and resolved that the World’s Fair being almost on its cppers they will work for it with all their soles. Chicago University trustees want to raise another million dollars. How would it do for the clerical members of the faculty to pray that Mr. Rockefeller might be visited by a severe but not fatal disease. The story that comes up from Colorado about a man who was lost for six weeks in an alkali desert, during which time he lived' exclusively on hope and cactus plants, is perhaps the biggest alkali of the season. Ward McAllister's article on farming shows that he never had the most rudimentary knowledge of the j agriculturist's art. He never raised '■ a mortgage, bought any Bohemian oats, nor gave a promissory note for lightning rods.

Another legal heir to A. T. Stewart has appeared in New York. The merchant prince’s legal heirs are only exceeded in numbers bv the petty meannesses which enabled him to leave a few million for other people to wrangle over. Justice teeters on a fine point in Washington City. An ordinance forbids fast driving over a bridge, and a truck driver was arrested and fined for a too literal interpretation of the law. He walked his team so slowly that he delayed a street-car. ? ' | They must be terribly hard up for amusement in Roumania, where the cadets of a military school have formed an active “suicide club,” like the famous one described by Balzac. When a man’s name is drawn he kills himself. Great fun, isn’t it? The Supreme Court of Minnesota has decided that municipal corporations cannot grant exclusive franchises. office of Alderman in the twin cities will no longer be sought with toe eagerness which has heretofore characterized ambitious aspirants.

The sugar trust has adopted the plan which the whisky trust has found so effective, of giving heavy rebates to grocers who buy of it alone and observe the laws for the “regulation” of trade as laid down by it. The methods of monopoly have become an exact science. The Kansas City Judge who heard toe confessionsjof guilt of tlie man and woman who kidnaped Banker Beale’s child set a good example when be sentenced the woman to two years and the man to four years in the penitentiary. The penitentiaries ooold have no more appropriate inmates than the child-stealers.

Fixe public buildings are going up In various cities and towns over the United States, but the old rattle-trap •t Chicago, known as the Government Building, still stands, only when dices of it tumble into the cellar. Chicago Congressmen are, on the average, a brilliant set, but just what they have done for Chicago could be told in a primer. It is said that Paris receives with Jeers the announcement of Madame Bernhardt that she intends to pass the autumn of her life in a convent; bat they should remember over there that Bernhardt can never grow old, and that by the time she came to the autumn of her life there would be nothing else in the world that would be novel to her except the convent. In pronouncing against woman’s mffrage, Gladstone has given many former admirers cause to fear that he is losing his mental faculties. Beformers in this country have little need of mourning over the position of the English statesman. They have but to open the works of Wendell Phillips to find full answer to every •uggestion offered by Gladstone against the simple justice of equal rights. * India is a little late and behind the rest of the world, but she gives evidence of waking up from her long Bip Van Winkle sleep. Mr. H. H. Bemfrv, a Calcutta solicitor, publishes a sfcc.rt series of essays upon the needs of India, and concisely •tates the case. The resources of India are great, and it only needs an awakening of her people and Infusion of some of the Western spirit in her veins to make wonderful changes. fi The Southern States are having discouraglngly hard times. While thousands upon thousands of home •eafcets at® camping on the borders d Oklahoma, or bracing against the «oid tn Dakota, the millions of fertile mam of the South, with its “glorious ClimiU’' thrown in, go begging for