Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A wall-paper trust will stick at nothing. Death has nothing terrible in it but what life has made so. If we are good, example is the best luster of virtue; if we are bad, shame is the best step to amendment. A hew postofflce in Nebraska has been named Tonic. The Postmaster pertaining thereto declares it pleasant to take. Italy is now tasting all the bitterness of financial distress Disarmament or bankruptcy constitute the two horns of the dilemma which King Humbert must face. Ferdinand Ward was reckless as a financier, but he is a very discreet released convict. He avoids all notoriety and will submit to no interviews. Mr. Ward learned wisdom at Sing Sing. A man in Barry. 111., who fired six shots at his wife with a revolver was fined $G by the indignant Justice of the Peace before whom his case was tried. It is lucky for him that his gun was not a seven-shooter His fine would have been $7. The regions of California not irrigated by artificial means are already suffering from the drought and crops are greatly injured. This side qf the Rockies would have willingly spared them seven or eight inches of water and not missed it. “The glorious climate” has its drawbacks. ~

/ The remarkable intelligence is sent from Cincinnati that a base-ball game was stopped because of the fact that the rays of the setting sun got in the eyes of the batsmen and pitchers. When the relative positions of these two functionaries are considered it becomes clear either that the sun is very eratic in the vicinity of Cincinnati or else that the players are afflicted with a very extraordinary and aggravated forms of strabismus. v‘Ail England is agitated over the poisoning of the Duke of Westminster's racer, “Orme,” on the eve of the races. The incident seems like a chapter out of an antiquated sporting novel, and will appear in the pages of scores of new ones. It illustrates how wide-spread is the English interest in racing and it illustrates also the fact that some of the most thorough blackgards imaginable were interested in Orme's not running.

New York has a guest just arrived from Rome and acknowledges that he is “a fugitive from Rome,” and has doubtless left there for Rome's good. He candidly tells a reporter of the Recorder: “I am here to make propaganda for my cause. My principle is the abolition of private property, of capitalism, and government, which are all one—namely, the enemy of true civilization.” He should be shipped home by the first boat with a notice to stay there.

The question of “good common roads” is beginning to take prominence in all the wide-awake States. There is no question in which all classes of people are more directly inThe ordinary methods of road making and road "repairing are only “playing at road making.” “The iron horse” has soiid road-beds, beautifully ballasted and bridged—but the faithful four-legged horse goes onmiring and wearing out his life in pulling the farmer's wealth to market. The times are ripe for a reform in country road building.

Downright trickery has been often j resorted to for the purpose of extend-1 ing the life of a valuable patent. It! seems to have been repeated by the owners of the Bell telephone patents, and it is now claimed that by a combination of patents for certain immaterial devices joined with the Berliner rights the company will be enabled to extend its monopoly for another seventeen years. But the public need not be alarmed at the suggestion. Long before the expiration of that time there will be discovered substantial relief from this monopoly. • Western colleges bent upon getting the best have formed the disagreeable habit of offering the right man for President a higher salary than Eastern colleges are disposed to pay. Now of course your really ideal President ought to be above sordid considerations. He ought to love learning for learning's sake, and supervise a college for supervision’s sake. But most of them have families dependent upon them for support, and are obliged to think of dollars and cents. Hence other things being equal—the college which pays the most gets the best President. Swinburne’s essay in the dramatic arena will excite much interest among the poet’s admirers. Coming so soon after the production of Tennyson’s play, “The Sisters” will attract additional attention. The poet laureate has not proved himself a master of dramatic situations and effects, but be has produced a play which is a great treat for all lovers of good literature. If Swinburne has the dramatic instinct more highly developed than Tennyson he has not jret given evidence of it in his writings. He is, however, a superb master <rf English, a consummate lyrist, awl M poet of exquisite taste. We tfnii probably base no exciting mseam in his new play, possibly no •taerWof plot, but we are sure of ;'v -a' v-? - x ~ * (ray