Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1892 — MISSING LINKS. [ARTICLE]

MISSING LINKS.

If John L. Sullivan manages him. self next year he will have his hands full. The man on horseback does not rule in Spain. The King rides a bicycle. Experienced people don’t tumble when they get in a hammock, because Ihey know the ropes. In Philadelphia a second-hand book-store advertises: “Webster’s Dictionary 4 cents per pound." Though the action is about the same, there’s a big difference between training for a rnn and running for a train: Prince Bismarck has an income of $250,000 a year. And he owns a brewery. Could earth afford him a happier lot? If Mr. Astor were to try to keep pace with his income by counting it in silver quarters, he’d be a gibbering idiot in a week’s time. Haying been an actor, and written a book, there seems to be no mors worlds for John L. Sullivan to conquer oinless he will tackle the pulpit. By the recent death of two of its members the College of Cardinals is now more nearly divided between Italians and foreigners than for a long time. The French Academy concludes a careful study of the problem of artificial rain with the observation that the solution of the problem has not yet been found.

It is doubtful if the astronomers have found out much about Mars. It might have been different if they had tried Venus. It’s said that a woman can’t keep secrets. Even the mo6t sanguine are now convinced that the Iron Hall is dead as a door nail. The only remaining hope of the stockholders Is to get what they can of the assets. About twenty missonaries and more than five million dollars' worth of liquors are sent to Africa every year. Successful evangelization will need a few more missioharies. Some of Whittier’s poems indicate that the good Quaker poet might have been a fighter had not the doctrine of non-resistance constrained him to the ways of peace. Professor .Tyndall is visiting Switzerland and trying to compare the huge glaciers of the mountains with the one that buried his friend Lord Salisbury on the Home Rule plateau.

There are 1,022 Americans jn. China, and 130,000 Chinamen in America. The Chinese send a million in hard coin home to China every year as a result of their interference with American labor. A man named Shirtoff h'as been arrested at Lawrenee, Kan., for stealing chickens. If he had stolen a Lacket of tar also, the materials would have been at hand for providing him at least with a coat. • When the Queen of Portugal Is making her own bonnets, and the Queen of Sweden doing her own housekeeping, it begins to look as though their respective peoples were doing their own bookkeeping. It may be that the Courts will find something to say of the Homestead troubles, but it is doubtful. It would be far better for the disputants to get together and settle their differences. Litigation will not help them. The girl who has a new engagement ring and a new pair of gloves which are a perfect match for her new gown at the same time is put in a state of undecided uncertainty that is simply impossible to adequately describe. The coal trust robs the poor. Rich people were able to buy their coal last spring when the price was two dollars a ton lower than it will be in December. It is the man who buys coal one ton at a time as he needs it who will suffer.

The young forger who dumped a Chicago detective Into a sample trunk and left him locked up has put a big discount on detective stories. The detective should have got the forger Into a box instead of letting the forger get him into one. The biggest man in Canada is Leonard Whitton, of Brighton, who tips the scale at 469 pounds. Mr. Whitton is yet under 40 years of age. He measures seventy-four inches around the hips, and his head measurement is twenty-three inches. Count Herbert Bismarck and his bride will, it is said, live in Austria. This will be inconvenient for Herbert’s princely dad when he wants to “run over” to his boy’s for a quiet smoke and a subdued bit of swearing at the way things are being run in Germany. A French duelist, on trial for the killing of his opponent, took advantage of the occasion to deliver a long speech about his business ventures. There is no necessity so widely recognized in this world nowadays as that of advertising. Even the “field of honor” is made a medium.

A London paper is .discussing the question whether a man ought to lift his hat to his female servant if he meets her on the street. In this country that question might hold concerning one’s wife or sister, but the average man here would not dare to think even of flaunting a baseless superiority in the face of the arbiter of his domestic destinies. In the mild and lovely parish of Frome, England, the Tories pulled up all the red flowers on the graves in the churchyard, because red is the Liberal color, and smashed two illuminated windows in the parish church because the vicar was a Liberal. This teaches us what a Briton means when he tells us “We do things better in England, doncher know?”