Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

f A Georgia town has an ordinance Imposing a fine of $5 for shouting within the corporate limits. The convivial aldermen are growing sensitive. The new comet is said to have an unusually large and numerous tail. If ever the cobwebs are to bq,-.swept from the sky now is the time. The proper implement is at hand. The Sixth Avenue Railroad Company, of New York, has leased its franchise to a corporation for 800 years. The renewal clause probably reads for one year longer than eternity. It appears that the Board of Lady Managers is taking a lively interest In the erection of a hotel to be tenanted “by women exclusively.” This would apparently bar out members of the Board of Ladies exclusively. » Allen Forman, editor of the Journalist, who confesses himself a cigar-ette-smoker, says the “worst feature” of the habit is inhaling the smoke. This is a very common mistake. The worst feature of the cigarette habit is Its unspeakably nasty stench. Pitcher Stagg, it seems, has signed with the Chicago University as Professor of Athletics. If Inventor Edison can be prevailed upon to take charge of the electrical department of the Chicago University, the battery, so to speak, will be complete.

Mb. James Berry, retired hangman of England, has a record of one hundred and eighty-three hangings. He is now delivering a lecture through England, in which he condemns capital punishment. His chief reason is that murderers are insane at the time of the deed' and truly repentant when they come to_be hanged. Mr. James Berry 4 repmitance 1s oeTter late than never. If every hangman and other executioner in Christendom wouid quit officiating at judicial killings the state would soon quit killing murderers and dispose of them in some more civilized way. ~ v -« rtfc- • -Or m-‘ \ Lane Theological Seminary, of Cincinnati, is bent on achieving orthodoxy. Lane, in brief, is going to have all the professors examined every three months to see if they still adhere to the dogmas of the denomination to which Lane belongs. That church is one of the conservative sort' and is already preparing to deal relentlessly with Dr. Briggs and other alleged heretics. Christianity has led the world into broader thinking without losing the great distinctive fundamental doctrines of Christ. The danger to Christian truth in this age is not so much from perverted doctrine as total lack of doctrine, and the negation seems rather one of the practical life than the apprehending reason.

The backward East is being stimulated to use inventions to supply the manifold wants of her teeming millions. The English for a long time after the conquest seemed to prefer to furnish India with all needed manufactures beyond the very simple native contrivances in use for untold centuries. Industrially the Hindoos are behind their the Chinese, and a great deal is to be accomplished to place them on the same industrial plane. What is wanted is Reemployment of-better tools ; and the mofe extended^use of machinery to assist in the preparation, manipulation and manufacture of tea, incligo, cotton, and the other products of the great peninsula. The movement Is of peculiar interest to Americans for the reason that if entirely successful it may affect the production of cotton and the manufacture and export o & the raw article as well as the export and sale of the manufactured product. »

The late earthquake in California Is made the occasion of some solid preaching by the press of that State upon the necessity of better building construction. The San Francisco Chronicle, calling attention to the flat that the effect of the shocks was greatest in the small towns in the interior where the construction of buildings was most defective, holds that “the proper way tc build houses and stores and similar structures is to put good materials into them and to put them together strongly.” It contends that “brick walls, which are only two bricks wide and held together with mortar which is little better Ran sand, cannot be expected to stand against an earthquake, and that such was the character of many of the buildings that were injured is apparent.” The Chronicle concludes in a strain of practical sense: “An earthquake is bad enough and terrible enough at best, and there is no need of making it worse than it is by attributing to it results which are due primarily to defective construction.” While numbers of American students go abroad yearly to complete their studies in special branches in the great universities of Germany, England, Scotland, France and Italv, it must also be remembered that the advance in the character of our own universities has not been without recognition on the other side. , An examination of recent university shows that practically every civilized nation in the world is represented by students now in America. In a single great institution, the University of Pennsylvania, there are students from twentyoight foreign countries. The Hassa-