Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1901 — Few-Line Interviews. [ARTICLE]

Few-Line Interviews.

Ellis H. Roberts, Treasurer of th« United States—Pennies are not composed entirely of copper, the alloy being 85 per cent copper, 2 per cent tin and 3 per cent zinc. They cost the government about 42 cents a pound for “blanks,” meaning the circular disks prepared ready to receive the impression of the die. As it takes about 148 to weigh a pound, the government apparently makes $1.0(1 on every pound of pennies minted, nnd would, in fact, make this surplus were it not tlint they are redeemable in gold upon presentation at the treasury, if ever presented, though, of course, the amount presented for redemption is comparatively small. All of the pennies coined in this country are minted at Philndtdphia by law. T. S. Gregory of Minnesota—ls it was not for a dominion law that game cannot be brought across the border into the United States, hunting in Canada would be one of the most profitable lines of business in which a man could engage, provided, of course, that he was a successful hunter. There is plenty of deer in Canada, and the large cities on this side of the line furnish a market that could not be overstocked. Even ns it is a good deal of game is smuggled across, but tlie difficulty is so grent that the business cannot be made to pay. Thb law against the export of game is one of the wisest tlie dominion government over enacted, and it is not likely soon to be removed from the statute books. Rev. P. 8. Ilenson of Chicago—l l>elieve in second marriages. Of course, a man who has experienced an unhappy first marriage would qot, as a rule, be fool enough to try a second venture. But how different it is with the man who has f.nown the joys of one happy married period. He desires to create for himself a similar condition, a second state of bliss. A man cannot pay his tirnt wife a higher compliment than by taking unto himself n second helpmeet. If a deceased wife is happy In heaven with Christ and the angels, would she not, as a matter of course, desire t 0 nee her former husband happy here on earth? Would it not add to her happiness? James It. Hnshmatin of Constantinople—The Armenians are the only civilized people in Turkey. Thuw are about 2,000,000 of them. They have five big colleges of about the size of Williams or Amherst. The Armenians desire to progress, but the Turks do not, aqd the nations of Europe, through jealousy and for trade purposes, do not want Turkey enlightened, and so there you are, and wbat are you going to do about it? Population of Bt. Petersburg, Russia, is 1,439,000. ,