Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Da Pakkuubst says he believes !n fighting the devil with fire. The difficulty with this plan is that whichever side wins the public is equally in danger of harm from the victor. A day oh two ago the steamer Jay Gould was injured in a collison at the mouth of the Chicago River. If it fails to get even with the other boat some time and in some way it is •wrongly named. The Italian Government reports a shortage of 70,000,000 lires this year. If Humbert isn't too particular about his spelling and pronunciation this country probably will be able to help him out as soon as the campaign fairly opens. _« Go past any house these evenings and you will see the mother sitting on the front porch alone, rocking her baby to sleep. No one knows what would become of the world if the women should exercise their right to go down town after supper, the same as the men. When Bismarck levied his tribute on France he was accused of heartless rapacity. But Bismarck represented a victorious foreign invasion, and when he reads of the tribute levied on the coal consumers of this country by Railroad President McLeod, he may exclaim, with Warren Hastings, that he is astonished at his moderation. The output of petroleum is to be reduced, it is said, and this right on the eve of a campaign when thousands of children of various ages want to go about the streets by night with flaring torches. Here is another illustration of the grinding nature of the Standard Oil monopoly. Meantime the output of oratory is liable to increase at a rate frightful to contemplate. Soaps and cosmetics are coming forward as subjects of sanitary regulation by law. The Vienna Congress of Analytical Chemists discussed the question with reference to public baths and publicly advertised toilet articles. Whether any public regulation be practicable or not, there should be, as with baking powder, public government tests to enable the people to choose between the evil and the good. The courts decide that when Lillian Russell contracted with Manager Duff to appear on the stage in three ounces of raiment and a chaste smile of ingenuous innocence, she entered into a binding agreement and must perform, even though she is compelled to throw in certain blushes that will start a dispute on the front row as to their genuineness. Her allegation that such habiliments are contra bonos mores doesn’t go in the courts of New York.

One of England's famous admirals has just laid down as an ultimatum before Parliament the statement that England should always have a naval reserve of fifty thousand men, twenty battleships, forty cruisers, and a torpedo fleet ready to go to sea. This, be it understood, In addition to all Great Britain’s numerous fleets scattered arounfl the globe. It is evident that if Uncle Sain means "to keep step with John Bull in naval matters, he has a great deal to do and a large amount of money to spend. An Engliish clergyman recently astonished his congregation by declaring that he should feel less hurt to have one of the congregation rise in his place and declare himself insulted than to have him sit smiling in his seat. “Don't smile,” he pathetically pleaded. “That is what knocks the heart out of the preacher. Don’t pretend you like the preaching if you don’t. Don’t get up a sickly smile Over your face, and try to smile as if you were just mad. Let the madness out, and, if you like, throw a hymn-book at my head.” If there was no one present who desired at that point to take the preacher at his word and throw a hymn-book at his head it must have been because there is no sense of humor in the English breast.

There is small doubt that Palacio may be now spoken of as the ex-Pres-ident of Venezuela. The revolution in that war-worn country seems to have completely triumphed, leaving the defeated government leader in as bad a plight as Balmaceda was left in at the end of his downfall. Let us hope that Palacio will not take his own life, as the disheartened Chilian did, and that he may succeed in escaping the wrath of his enemies. It is true that he is charged with having emptied the national treasury for his own benefit, and of having forwarded his booty to foreign parts, but it will not make matters better to put him to death, as many of the revolutionists would like to do. They have gained the day, and what they should now think of is not vengeance, but the necessity of taking prompt and wise measures for the restoration of peace and prosperity to their suffering land. In the financial statement of the Yh^JtoQia&ol I team much encouragem«Jtl%?gffen to educational efforts In rap oofiafcry. It appears from the punished report that the team has a handsome surplus of $17,543 as a result of the year s work. This is estimated to be sufficient to supply the needs of the team for the next year, and that branch of the curriculum is provided for without encroaching up-