Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1892 — On the Diamond. [ARTICLE]

On the Diamond.

Following la a showing of the standing of each of the teams of the different associations i RATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. We. W. L Vo. Boston IV 5 .7.12 Pittsburg.... 13 12 .iftj 8r00k1yn....19 8 .519, New York. ..11 11 .505 Cleveland... 18 9 .691 Washingt’n. 10 13 .430 dnolimatl...ll 11 .550 Phlladelp’a. 10 14 .417 Chieago .18 11 .542 St. Louis.... 7 19 .269 Louisville...l3 11 .542 Baltimore.. 5 17 .227 WESTERN LEAGUE. W. L. so.i W. L. se. Columbus. ..15 5 .7jo Omaha 6 9 ,400 Milwaukee... 10 6 .067iSt. Paul S 8 .835 Kansas Clty.lo 7 .488 Minneap’lis. 3 11 ,214 Toledo 7 7 ,500. Indian'pi’s,. 1 8 012 the illinois-iowa league. W. L. se. W. L. Vo. Joliet 13 1 .929 Rock ford 5 6 .455 Peoria 9 5 .643;Terie Haute..s 7 .417 Evansville... 8 7 . 583' Jacksonville . 5 10 .333 Quincy 6 6 .500 R. 1.-Moline.. .3 12.200 Miscellaneous Notes. If you can not give a good reason for what you are doing, that is a good reason why you should not do it. A motheb, father and their eighteen children joined in one day a Mennonite colony in Lane Ceunty, Oregon. The most powerful electric lighthouse in Europe is the one at Hanstholm, on the Scow. It has a strength of 2,009,000 candles. . J . . Beware of the man who is always suspicious of everybody else's motives. The chances are that he has some motives himself. • Most .women have a good deal of romance fn their dispositions. If they hadn’t, very few men would ever succeed in getting married. Recently invented wire - drawing mechanism has made it feasible to produce silver and platinum wire so fine as to be thinner than a human hair. A representative of the Krupp gun manufactory at Essen, Germany, is about to start for Chicago to make arrangements for an exhibit at the fair. George Kennan, the American lecturer and traveler, declares that he will never cease agitating until the political prisons of Siberia are things of the past. The Arkansas Bankers’ Association has appropriated $50,01X1 to furnish a room in the Arkansas State Building for the use of the association during the Fair. Ex-Secretary Bayard will address the Phi Beta Kappa alumlni of New York, on Tuesday evening, March 22. Rev. Dr. Deems- is President of the association. In a Philadelphia church the choristers felt rather dull during the delivery of the sermon, so four of them passed the time pleasantly, but irreverently, by engaging in a game of whist. A tender-hearted Parisian lady has made her pet dog comfortable in cold weather by clothing it with an embroidered fur-lined blanket and decorating its little legs and feet \fith shoes and stockings. A Chicago newspaper Bays that B. P. Hutchinson, the great speculator, who is now in New York, is broken in spirit, and that the fortune of $10,000,000 he possessed a few years ago has dandled to an insignificant sum. - Most of the men in the islands of Southwestern Japan lead lives of idleness, and are cheerfully supported by the women. The males are fond of music, some of them being excellent musicians on various instruments.