Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

r Farms in the Mississippi bottoms (we liable to have a hop crop, judging Ifrom the frog croaking. I One Michael Flanagan has entered [the fiftieth year of his service as City |Clerk of Kingston, Ont., and he (knows what he is there for. The skin of a boiled egg is an excellent remedy for a boil. Carefully peel it, wet and apply to the boil; it draws out the matter and will relieve soreness. 1 A leading actress says that “a Ikiss to be artistic must be impersonal.” There is entirely too much inartistic realism in shadowy halls and cozy back parlors. The summer girl has taken to wearing suspenders, but the acme of feminine imagination will not be reached until she is able to scold her husband for not sewing on the buttons for them. A New York preacher proposes that the churches should open some strictly moral saloons in which nothing but mildly alcoholic drinks shall be sold. This seems to be a movement for a union between church and state—namely, the state of intoxication. “Western farmers who expect to raise a crop of corn this year,” observes the Bangor News, “will have to use diving-bells in planting it.” This has been done already, dear friend, and arrangements have been made to procure oyster-longs later in the season for gathering the crop. Another murderer was electrocuted in New York the other day, and one of the attendant physicians declared “there was nothing horrible about it.” Judging from the expert testimony in these cases, science will some time make these entertainments quite amusing to all but a single interested person. And they now say that even he no longer kicks.

If the road-making experiences of modern Europe teach us in America one lesson more than another, it is that our common roads should be taken as much as possible out of the hands of the merely local authorities, and administered by either the national or the State governments after some plan in accordance with scientific knowledge and the needs of the people who use the roads.

Bob Ford wore an opal pin in his neck-scarf at .the time he was shot. . Friends had frequently reminded hip of the unlucky qualities of the opal, 3?ut he failed to heed their warnings. By his violent death the baleful influences of this ill-omened stone are again illustrated. It is especially dangerous when worn on the persons -of people who have committed murders or who have otherwise incurred deadly enmities.

TnE new Boston Public Library seems to be suffering under a variety of afflictions. There was placed recently upon its facade an array of names of eminent lights in the book world, ancient and modern, which an acute observer noted one day was an acrostic, spelling the names of the firm of architects engaged in-its construction. When taxed with this presumptuous offense the architects charged the responsibility upon the boys in the office. Perhaps it was the boys in the office who drew the plans of the whole building. But whether done by the office boys or the office employers the trustees have ordered the names to be removed, and a new set will be made whichwill not be acrostical in its ment. Dr. Bacon, of Chicago, has introduced a word to public notice which bids fair to be a godsend to the medical fraternity. Mrs. Ford died from the effects of chloroform administered to facilitate a surgical operation, and her husband claims that she was given too much of the drug. The Doctor explains that her death can only be attributed to the fact that her constitution bore an idiosyncrasy to the drug administered. Idiosyncrasy, as Polonious would say, is good, feiere have been mapy instances in the past of patients dying while under the influence of chloroform. We now know that the accusations of carelessness and ignorance usually preferred against the doctors were Unjust. The unfortunate patients Were victims of idiosync^y. There are 10,123 teachers instructing the public school children of Massachusetts, and just 901 are men. What is the inference? That Massachusetts is overpopulated on the female side; that she should be bled, so to speak, and that this congestion of one sex in' one vocation should be to be avoided in our other commonwealths. But there is a point not to be overlooked and that is that In the intellectual State that Massachusetts certainly is, woman, seeking an independent vocation, first took to teaching; whereas in our newer States, where distribution of brain work among the sexes is becoming more equalized, both impulse and demand are multiplying the pursuits in which woman is inevitably to become a masterful competitor with father, husband, and brother. It’s English, you know, for women in “high society” to accuse each other of theft. A suit for slander arising from accusation of this nature has been begun in the Chicago courts, •ad » lfte one is compromised at Mil-