Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1901 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PULSE of the PRESS

When speaking of the population of the United States do not forget that it is about 84,000,000. This figure, of course, includes all the islands. —Topeka Journal. Dreyfus is firm in his conviction that the art of “hazing” cannot be developed to its complete perfection, except among full-fledged army officers.—Washington Star. The upper-class men at West Point are not the persons authorized by law to sit in judgment on the qualifications of young men to stay in the academy.—Cincinnati Enquirer. The Missouri river has lost its pull with the river and harbor committees of Congress, but it will not cense to pull at both shores all the way from Bismarck to St. Louis.—Omaha News. If salt is the real elixir of life it is puzzling to understand how people who live on the sea and constantly-breathe salt into their systems ever manage to die natural deaths.—Kansas City Star. It looks as if Maine was one of the unhealthiest -States in the Union. Thousands upon thousands of barrels of strong drink were consumed there last year, and all of it as medicine. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. The rapid growth of manufacturing industries in the South is bringing a new class of labor questions to the front there. Just how they will be dealt with will be watched with interest.—Louisville Commercial. The center of the country’s population is still in Incliana. It should not be forgotten that an ex-President who seems to be something of a factor in shifting the balance of public opinion on important issues hails from. Indiana, also.— Philadelphia Bulletin. It seems that Li-Hung-Chang made a present of Manchuria to the Czar last summer. This was the more generous ou the part of the venerable Li, when it is remembered that Manchuria is alcout the only province in China that Li does not own.—Peoria Herald-Transcript. The War Department will be justified in taking the most thoroughgoing measures to put a stop to these degrading customs. They only serve to lower the idea of what honor is in the minds of our young officers, a result harmful to us, as well as to them.—Detroit. And now comes a Yale professor averring that this Chicago University “discovery” of salt as n fotmta in Trf youthhas been known in New Haven for years and years and years. Thus does the effete East smother the scientific enthusiasm of the bounding West.—Newark, N. J., News.