Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — CURRENT COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT.

Col. Breckinridge. Col. Breckinridge will like the latest English novels.—New York World. CoL Breckinridge should have gone West in early life and grown up with Utah.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. There is reason to believe that one of CoL Breckinridge's favorite books is “How to Ee Happy Though Married." —New York World. Any man who dictates his love letter* to a stenographer is an 18-karat chump, whether he has a silvertongue or not.—Chicago Dispatch. CoL Breckinridge and Madeline Pollard are probably better acquainted with each other now than they were when they were more friendly.—Atchison Globo. Breckinridge, by his own confession, is a bad man, but some of his loudest critics are g .ing to have a mighty hard time squeezing past old St. Peter.— Daily Amer ca. Mary Ellen Lease. Mr. Lease is still wondering why total strangers will pay big. money to be icolded by Mrs, Lease. —New York World.

The gentlemen Ma ons, having heard what Mrs. Lease knows about their order, are too gallant to display much annoyance over her determination to establish one for ladies.—Exchange. If Mrs. Lease's scheme to organize a Masonic order for women proves successful tho dry-goods market will undoubtedly be affected. White aprons will be all the rage, and a slump in ginghams must necessarily follow.— Baltimore American. Now that Mrs. Lease is making money, does she go home Saturday night and put half of it in her husband's lap? Does she put her money in the sugar-bowl and let her husband help himself? That's what the women iay the men should do?—Atchison Globe. Bismarck'* Birthday. The Gorman Emperor sends official dignity and a gift of armor, serene in the knowledge that Bismarck is too old to make use of either.—Washington Star. Bismarck appears to have received a great many casks of fine wines on hie birthday and not a single temperance tract, so far as heard from.—Boston Herald. Bismarck will probably not have many opportunities to test the suit of armor given to him by the Kaiser. Hia battles have all been fought.— Philadelphia Call. Bismarck assures William that he will wear that steel armor. That's what the Emperor wanted. There’e nothing like a cuirass weighing something lees than a ton to keep an old man quiet.—New York World. Springtime In Georgia. Spring threatens to come from behind the stove and do some more capering on the lawn.—Atlanta Constitution.

Peaoh trees are now in full bloom. A great many old people say that peaches In bloom are rarelv ever killed in Light nights.—Columbus Sentinel. This beautiful weather, with its bab sarnie breezes, falls like a velvet hammer upon the emaciated constitution of the average northern visitor.—Ab bany Herald. The chirp of the early chicken, together with the recent May-like weather, is a reminder, however faint, that picnics will be in order in a few weeks, —Walton News. Bomb* In Faria. No menu in a Paris restaurant nowa> days is complete without a few dynamite bombs on toast.—Boston Herald. When you enter a Paris case yon should have your mind made up as to how you will have your dynamite served.—New York Advertiser. The latest Paris bomb injured most seriously the anarchist orator who declared that the victims of an explosion were of little consequence so long as the anarchist idea prevailed.—Kansas City Star. A French anarchist who was Injured by the explosion of a bomb intended for other people has changed his views. This is one good effect from a bomb.— Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Fate of the Kearaarge. This Inglorious end of the doughty corvette was not entirely unexpected. —Philadelphia Record. Much as the patriotic people of the United States will regret the total loss of the stout old ship, it is just as well that the destruction of the Kearsarge is complete and Anal. Its career was over.—Philadelphia Times.

A good many persons will think that the fate of the Kearsarge has its consolations. To fall into decay tied to the end of a wharf is not a dignified enJ. It is better, as Dr. Holmes said Of Old Ironsides, to be given to the god of storm», the lightning and the gale. —Providence Journal. Coxsy. Congress may not be able to secure a quorum to receive Coxey.—St, Louis Star-Sayings. Coxey can plead a time-honored precedent. A goose once saved Rome.— Chicago Tribune. The only terrifying weapon possessed by Coxey s army is Carl Brotvne’s vocabulary.—New York World. It will be to Mr. Coxey’s interest to see that his moving army does not come in contact with Uncle Sam’s standing army.—Chicago Tribune. Gov. Tillman. Perhaps Gov. Tillman may effect a compromise by selling a better quality of whisky.—Chicago Tribune. The chief trouble with Gov. Tillman Is that he views the world with his blind eye.—New York Advertiser. In attempting to regulate the telegraph, Gov. Tillman put his fingers on the wrong key.—New York Recorder. The South Carolina “Dispensary law* has one good feature. It discourages emulation in other States.—Baltimore Herald. D ’ ~ • 1 ! J Peru and Her Afflictions. Peru has two presidents, one dictator and a revolution. And still Peru, for some reason, is not happy.—Kansas City Journal. , 4 And now it is unhappy Peru which is rent with civil strife and afflicted with a surplusage of presidents. Periods of peace in South America are few and soon broken.—Boston Journal. Sparks from the Wires. Many cattle were killedM Gillespie County, Texas, by a fall of hail Horace Robbins was run over and killed by a train at Piqua, Ohio. A fishing steamer ran on the rocks off the coast of Grimsby and six of her crew were drowned. General e’ections in Holland have resulted in the defeat of the government by a large majority. , Oregon Republicans nominated Chief Justice W. P. Lord, of the State Supreme Court; for Governor. Charles Hines awoke at Sheridan, Ind., to find his wife dead at his side, lieart frilu.ro being the cause. _