Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1910 — GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

Seme men can t make good ever with fre:e, raw material.

Dogs, horses, cattle, mice, even fl*l have cancer. In Tunlß and Abyssfnii cancer is unknown.

Lovers of New Jersey applejacl will be disturbed by reports that the outlook for the apple crop in New Jersey is unfavorable. The San Jose scale hns affected the trees. Some orchards have been destroyed, ant many others sferlously damaged.

Detroit has expended $7,880,811.90 on its pavements in the last eight years Of this sum, $2,553,082.13 was spent on new pavement, that is, in pavinj streets which previously had been un paved. The remainder of the sum $5,347,729.77 was spent in repaving, resurfacing and paving repairs.

A year and a half ago the Lackawanna railroad Installed the telephone system cf operating trains over a part of the line near Scranton. It found the telephone service more satisfactory than the telegraph, and this has been extended until, now all its trains except those on one branch in Nejv Jersey are operated by telephone.

Chicago is to have a polyglot newspaper. It will be published by the united societies for local self-govern-ment, in the interest of the "homecule” and personal liberty principles. The paper will be printed in English, German, Polish, Bohemian and Italian, and it is expected that later there will be editions printed in the languages of each nationality represented in the societies.

The acting commissioner of internal revenue an inquirer that apothecaries are not required to pay special tax to the United Stated for keeping spirits of wine in stock for use in making up prescriptions, “provided the spirits of wine before being sold is compounded with drugs sufficient in quality and amount to alter its character and render it unsuitable for use as a beverage.”

State Food and Dairy Commissioner Wright, of lowa, proposes an exhibit and demonstration of impure foods in place of the pure food shows that have been popular lor - several years. He has instructed his deputies to cob lect samples of impure food and see chat a display of them is made at the •everal county fairs throughout the state. Instruction will be given by the deputies how to detect adulterated and nisbranded food-stuffy.

When Thomas HHill, now dead, painted “The Last Spike,” which pictures the scene of the completion of the Central Pacific railroad and its junction with the Union Pacific, it was understood that he would receive $50,000 for the work. There was a misunderstanding, and the painting was 'eft on his hands. Now that John Washburn, his son-in-law, is negotiating for its sale to an eastern man for SIO,OOO, San Francisco people are trying to raise the money necessary to keep it in the city. Pour hundred persons are shown in the painting, 70 of hem by portraits.

Acording to the Boston Adveriser's John Lcrance, newspaper men ire well treated at the White House nowadays, Sometimes Mr. Taft sees ibe m while senators wait in the anterooms. “On Sunday lafet,” writes Lorince, “a large number of correspondents were with the president for two hours, having quite a. visit-with him and smoking Taft cigars. If any correspondent does not know wher the president stands on Important questions, he is obtuse or unenterprising indeed; Yet be it sain that the president is not using the press. No inspiring is being dene. It is the correspondents that seek the president, and at ad times he is frankly illuminating."

Marshall Bell, a wealthy resident of Newburg, caused something of a surprise recently by filing a voluntary application to be adjudged a bankrupt. His liabilities were stated to be $112,100, but on the day fixed for creditors to appear, claims to the amount of $2,000 only were presented. In his application Bell alleged that he go' into a brace game of faro in New i'ork city and played rashly until he -ost all the cash he had with him and ?aye in addition his notes for fIIO.OOO. The faro dealers were too shrewd to .ttempt the collection of a gambling debt in the bankruptcy court. The eferee wil settle the claims presented ■nd Bell will probably get his discharge. ■' V

The duel as .understood by German trinv officers may he a pretty serious encounter. When Lieut, Granier and Lieut. Switzers fought,, the conditions uade it impossible that honor should be easily satisfic i. These were the conditions: Alternative pistol shots, with 30 seconds aim at 10 paces, till me should be unable to continue the combat. Lieut. Granier had the first shot. He seemed *o aim carefully at lis opponent’s head, but missed. Lieut. Switzers aimed, but when he pulled the trigger his pistol mifcsed fire. This counted as a shot, however, and he again became the target. This time, appear ently, Lieut. Granier meant msiness. Switzers fell, with a bullet aole through a lung. He died 36 hours iter.