Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The rumor that Dan Coughlin is eeriously ill is denied by advices from Joliet. It is understood, however, that he is confined to the house. The pictures of the Grant monument as it will appear when completed afford an interesting glimpse of the scenes of the twenty-first century * The proverb says that it’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways, but many rules would be perfectly satisfactorily if they could be made to work one. If you want to see how fast money feally can go, put it on the wrong horse and then meditate upon the eccentricities of fortune as you tear up your pool tickets. A Chicago park policeman has been condemned to pay S4OO for riding over a bicycler. When park policemen are so reckless as to mount a horse they should take a boy along to steer. Bernhardt has gone and several barrels of shining American coin have gone with her. She still loves America—particularly that part of it stamped s—and will return again. M. Ravachol is in great luck to be a Parisian. Anywhere else he would have been hanged in a distressingly matter-of-fact way long ago, and so quite missed his opportunity to be a hero.

If China were suddenly to conclude to move California would have to 6end her washing East, and her citizens generally would have to get down to work. It might he good for her dyspepsia. A school of Buddhism has been founded in Paris, and its limited accommodations are already overrun with pupils. If there was a school of Beelzebub Organized in Paris it, too, would likely be crowded. new extradition treaty between this country and Germany will add numerously to the list of extraditable offenses. The time will yet come when there will be no safe city of refuge for the wrongdoer. A Boston newspaper remarks that bloodhounds are good-natured. May be; but the writer evidently never roosted on the topmost branch of a tree in a dense swamp with a pack of these gentle creatures him. \S* ~~ " Dame Nature distributes her benefactions in a mighty queer way. For example, a spring whose waters are a sure cure for drunkenness has been discovered up in Montana—more than a thousand miles from Kentucky.

i There is material for a farce, a tragedy, an opera, or what not in the Western incident of the six sisters who dressed in men’s attire and robbed the stage coaches. There’ is certainly no lack of variety to American life. White Ghost, Chief of the Coon Creek Sioux, has written a letter to the Commissioner at Washington that is spiced with facts and demands for justice. White Ghost was not a •dancer,” but appears to be a good letter writer. Persons of cheerfully optimistic habits of thought are beginning to hope that the World’s Fair directors will decide whether they want a loan n an appropriation in time to get it for the quintennial celebration of the iiscovery of America. Several spinsters of ancient orifin are very angry that Gladstone ihould refuse to take up the woman mffrage cause for the reason that he Is to© far advanced in life. It is re ceived as a discourteous dig on the part of the venerable statesman. There is a pathway straight to fame and fortune open to the archi . tect who will make his fire-proof buildings water-proof as well. Reports of trivial conflagrations in the upper stories of fire-proof buildings which wind up with the estimate—algebraically expressed—“damage by Are, x; damage by water, 10 x” are getting to be painfully frequent.

There were were a good many people smiling at Grief in Cincinnati a few days ago. Miss Mary Grief, a pretty girl of 19, placed a chair over a post-hole, made by Western Union workmen opposite her father’s home, and deliberately and firmly tat down and held the chair in place while her'father obtained an injunction against putting a telegraph pole where he did not wnat it. The Ohio and Mississippi Rivers are among the most unruly and ungovernable of Uncle Sam’s thoroughfares. In the summer they have a fashion of dropping the bottoms of iteamers too clpse to the ground, and in the spring covering ail the bottom farms and invading tim houses to the second story. Just now there is great anxiety on the lower waters lest, the H breaking of embankments spread wide desolation over the farming > tiie assassin