Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 45, Hope, Bartholomew County, 2 March 1893 — Page 2

HOPE REPUBLICAN. Bv Jay C. Smith. HOPE INDIANA Citizens of the United States have $30,000,000 invested in Hawaiian enterprises. Mb. White, the newly elected Senator from California, is the first native-born citizen of that State to attain that honor. The statement has been made that the Czar will soon assume the title of “Emperor of Asia,” and is generally credited in European political circles. Am. Europe, from Lapland to Italy, is experiencing a winter whose severity has not been equalled in in fifty years, and in some sections history has not recorded a season of such extremes' of cold and storm.

A Jew is now the Prime Minister of Egypt, occupying the same office in that country that Joseph did the in the time of Pharaoh. No news has been received concerning Potiphar’s wife, but her successor probably flourishes in the shadow of the pyramids. The Western Leather Company of Chicago has posted a notice in its establishment that on one Saturday in each month during the World’s Fair period its employes will be given a holiday with full pay in order that they may have time and means to attend the exhibition. Nearly all politicians of prominence with Democratic proclivities have been more or less frequently mentioned in connection with Cabinet portfolios. It seems impossible \that the ambitions of all can be grat- ! ified, and, as usual, there will not be enough offices to go around. The appointment of William Walter Phelps to be Lay Judge to the Court of Errors and Appeals of New Jersey, has called attention to the survival of a somewhat ancient usage in American jurisprudence. The office can bo traced back to colonial times, and to England through 250 years of legal history. The raisin crop of California for 1892 reached a grand total of 42,000,000 pounds. The first 1,000 car loads sent east realized the raisers cents per pound, but competition in November resulted in a demoralized market, and several hundred car loads in the hands of Eastern brokers were sold at prices that realized for the producer about 1 cent per pound.

Members of Congress are allowed $125 a year for stationery, and are permitted to draw the cash to that amount above their salaries less the amount of supplies of that character actually used by them. It is stated that Jerry Simpson of Kansas expended but $5.88 for writing materials during 1892 and drew $119.12 balance in cold cash. Teetotal railway employes are in ,dcmand in England, railway authorities having of late made especial efforts to promote temperance in all departments of their business. Naturally the traveling public appreciate this kind of practical missionary labor, and that the movement will be beneficial to ail concerned there can be no doubt. A bill to prohibit the wearing of hoopskirts has been introduced in the Kentucky Legislature. If it is necessary to avert this threatened ta lamity, the Constitution of the United States should be amended at once. Mere State restrictions can have but little effect in checking the epidemic should it once gain a foothold in the feminine, mind. The latest scientific investigations tend to encourage the belief that contagion of various kinds and bacteria of all descriptions may be, and often are, transmitted through the medium of newspapers and old periodicals. Hence if you would live long in the land and continue to enjoy the fruits of your labors for many years it would be well to cease troubling your neighbor, as it may be the death of yourself and family if you continue to sponge your read-

ing matter. Now is the time to suberibe. London is a huge municipality and her paupers cost a good deal of money, notwithstanding a large number of them are annually allowed to starve to death to save expenses. Official reports show that for the two years eliding Jan. 1, 1891, the date of the last biennial report, the cost of maintaining paupers in that city was about $11,700,000, and during the same period there were 109,748 criminal, convictions. Royalty is not exempt from annoyance, and sometimes stoops to please the lower classes in a way that free born Americans would despise. It is stated that the Roumanian peasantry greeted the newly married Princess Marie, late of England with a loaf of welcome composed of pigs blood, garlic, honey and ground beans, and that the future Queen showed her patrotism and strength of character by partaking of the sickening comestible with a smiling and cheerful patience.

During the administration of President Pierce the question of the annexation of the Sandwich Islands was much discussed, and the United States commissioner at Honolulu was authorized to negotiate a treaty with the Hawaiian government with that end in view. Congress and the President were of one mind on the question, believing that the annexation was desirable and proper. Unfortunately the Hawaiian King became obstinate and stood out for a “protectorate,” whereupon W. L. Marcy, then Secretary of State,summarily dropped all negotiations. William Waldorf Astor, wirth at least $100,000,000, has bought the Pall Mall Gazette, at London, and will try to expend a portion of his income in demonstrating his ideas of “howa newspaper should be run.” Mr. Astor is doubtless the wealthiest newspaper man in the world. Ho has represented the United States as minister to Italy, has been a member of Congress, but has lived in Europe since he was defeated for a seat in the House by Roswell P. Flower a few years ago. He is a man of ability and his paper will be a conservative organ and opposed to the Gladstone ministry. The Marquis of Queensberry has created much comment by his recent lectures in England on the marriage question. He says that polygamy as an institution would be preferable to existing conditions. The “Marquis of Queensberry” rules have governed the pugilistic ring for years, and probably they might be modified to suit the exigencies that occasionally develope in the married state, but he is going too far in supposing that they can be extended to a ring with only one man against an unlimited number of females.

American agitators who are and have been using their influence to secure home rule for Ireland are denouncing Gladstone’s measure for the relief of the Emerald Isle. It is probable, however, that the Grand Old Man is a better friend to the Irish people than the irresponsible malcontents whose occupation will be gone when Ireland shall attain to any form of home rule. At all events Gladstone probably knows how far the British nation will permit him to go in the direction of a larger liberty for that down-trodden race, and his efforts if not up to the standard of the dreamers who have espoused their cause will still have the merit of practical success instead of visionary benefits. A supply of spiders has been forwarded from Chihuahua, Mexico, to New York, to be used as a remedy in the treatment of typhus fever, which has been alarmingly prevalent in that city during the winter, and which it is feared will become epidemic unless a more effective treatment can be perfected. The idea of using spiders as a medicine has been r.idculed in some quarters, but is by no means absurd. It has been known for ages that some varieties of the insect contain chemical substances that are useful in disease, and Indian doctors in the great southwest have attributed marvelous virtues to their venom in many diseases. The result of the experi ments will be awaited with interest.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. A Berliner breeds rats for vivisection. A five-legged hog is an animal monstrosity at Howells, Neb. An albino deer, it is claimed, was recently killed near Weldon, N. C. The coldest winter the world ever knew occurred during the year 1435. Small game is reported to be very abundant throughout Alabama this year. The plaintiff in a libel suit for *5,000 at Findlay, O., was awarded five cents. There is said to be more illiteracy in Portugal than any other country of Europe. The farmer in Japan who has ten acres of land is looked upon as a monopolist. A thief at Carterville, Mo., lately stole a steak the family had prepared .or breakfast. There are estimated to be over six hundred deposits of iron ore in the State of Missouri.

An average workman using a Jac quard loom can weave fifty yards oi Brussels carpet in a day. When a confidential bank clerk fills his grip with cash and skips it’s a sign ho thinks he’s better off. The musical horses arc the latest attraction in Paris. They play several instruments with their feet. The superintendent of the schools in Chicago states that 10 per cent, of the teachers are incompetent. It is reported that a twentyinch vein of coal has been discovered in Banner county, Nebraska. A single mahogany tree in Honduras was recently cut into boards, which, when sold in the European market, realized over $10,000. The Simplon road, from Switzerland to Italy, was built by Napoleon’s engineers in 1807. Over 400,000 workmen were employed at one time. The Mont Blanc Observatory is practically complete and will be placed in position a's soon as the parts can be carried to the summit. Sam Dodd, aged eight years, of Kentucky, is now serving a year’s sentence in the penitentiary for grand larceny. He is the youngest convict recorded in that State. Two ten-cent Confederate stamps recently carried a small package from Granby, Mass., to Boston. It had gone through the postofflee at Granby, Hadley and Boston unnoticed. The bond of the Populist State Treasurer Biddle, of Kansas, is signed by 300 persons. The smallest amount for which any man is liable is liable is $100 and" the largest is $20,000. □ The number of languages spoken by mankind at present is estimated at 3,000. The Bible has been translated into 200 only, but those 200 are spoken by about two-thirds of the whole popnlat’on of the globe. Among twenty-nine divorcesgranted at the January term of the Supreme Court in Bangor was one setting Fannie Mohawk free from Lola Mohawk, Tarratiue brave, who didn’t treat her well. The squaw was by far the best looking woman in the court room.

The British, it is said, are growing unwelcome people to the natives of China and Japan. The Hong Kong papers say the few Englishmen left in the service of China are being replaced by Germans, Belgians and Americans. But Great Britain still holds the trade. People who know just how' many glasses of beer can be drawn from a Keg, and who can estimate the froth, say that the average retail profit on beer is somewhere between 300 and 500 per cent. It is said that if any a good stand and opens a saloon and sells only beer at 5 cents a glass it is only a question of time and prudence as to their getting rich. A New York artist has spent two summers among the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, because, he says, he gets the same kind of subjects there that the French painters find around Barbizon — the same rudeness of implements, the same, simplicity of habitations, even the same blue clothing. “I don’t see why so many of our follows go to France,” said he, "‘for we have everything that we can want in this country.” □ You never see a Welshman begging. He is too proud to beg and tcib proud to steal. The Welsh in this country are industrious and thrifty, and they are all either comfortably situated or wealthy. Wales has given three Presidents to the United States —Jefferson, Adams and Monroe. Thomas Jefferson was pure Welsh, too, and the Welshmen of New York are now organizing a movement to erect a grana monument to him. There are 5,000,000 Welsh and their immediate descendants in this country, and over 1,200,000 pure Welsh and their first descendants.

Modern Welsh Druid. Dr. William Price, of Llantrisant, Glamorganshire, who called himself the “high priest of the sun,” and made himself by his attire and actions a close copy of the ancient Druid priests, died two weeks ago at the age of 92 years. He was one of the most eccentric characters in Wales. He wore a whole fox skin for a head dress, trousers of light green cloth, a vest of scarlet and a light green cloak. He left directions in his will that his body be cremated with many fantastic ceremonies, on a big funeral pyre built on a lofty hilltop. His children were to light the pyre and Druidical rites were to be performed. One of his children he named Jesus Christ. His directions were carried out. Best of All To cleanse the system in a gentle and truly beneficial manner, when the Spring-time comes, use the true and perfect remedy, Syrup of Figs. One bottle will answer for all the family and costs only 50 cents; the large size $1. Try it and be pleased. Manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only.

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