People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — TO CORRESPONDENTS. [ARTICLE]

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The Colombian winter of 1892-93 is likely to be held in long remembrance. Tu French courts have decided that a young man born in France of a French mother and English father must serve his time in the French army. Th* road question is at the front everywhere. The governor of Wisconsin, in his message to the legislature, recommends legislation looking to a uniform system of good roads throughout the •tate. Th* Ladies’ Hermitage association of Nashville, Tenn., who are engaged in the patriotic work of attempting to preserve and restore Jackson’s old home to something like its former grandeur, need about 115,000 to purchase the entire collection of relics and place them in the Hermitage. “Sleepy Hollow” cemetery, which is situated just out of Tarrytown, N.Y., is famous as the resting-place of Washington Irving’s body, and it also contains the family plots of D. 0. Mills, Manton Marble, Gen. Delevan, George Lewis, the late George Jones and many other noted families of New York. It would be impossible to find a parallel the progness of the United States in the last ten years. Every day that the sun rises upon the American people it sees an addition of $2,500,000, the daily accumulation of the republic, which is,equal to one-third of the daily accumulation of all mankind outside of the United States. It is said that fully 100,000 complete -sets of pie new Columbian stamps, costing Unpack will be taken by collectors. Mr. anamaker estimates that the -stamps sold this year to collectors will net the government over $1,500,000, as this money will not have to be earned by mail service. The value of the stamp exhibit at Chicago is estimated at $500,000.

The pennant to be borne at the masthead of the United States mail subsidy ships is 20 feet long, 8 feet 6 inches at the mast and 5 feet at the end of the swallow taiL Its field is red, bordered by nine inches of blue. In the upper left-hand corner is an eagle in blue, with arrows and a branch in its talons, and bearing on the breast a shield with stars and btripes in red and white. The government employs numerous women to make the increased number of flags required by our enlarged navy. All the work is hand-sewed to insure strength of seams After leaving the hands of the each flag is tested by being soaked alternately in fresh and salt water, and is also submitted to a strain of seventy pounds on the woof and fifty pounds on the warp. Austria, which for a long time was not inclined to make an exhibit at Chicago, is now surprising everyone by the extent of the preparations which she is making. The imperial eagle of AustriaHungary will be displayed over eight departments of the great exposition, viz.: Agriculture, gardening and landscape gardening, mining, mechanics, and other industrial products, •-art and woman’s work. A becent application of aluminum to the frames of eye-glasses has attracted some attention. The weight of the frame is almost imperceptibly, yet the lenses are softer than without rims. As the amount of aluminum used is extremely small, the difference in price between such glasses and those with •teel frames is trifling. The fact that aluminum does not corrode especially recommends it for this use.

Mrs. Cleveland’s inauguration shoes have been ordered of a manufacturer in New Canaan, Ct The material is of the best French kid, and the making is to be in the. highest style of the art. The ehoes will be worn on the 4bh of March next and till the conclusion of the inauguration ceremonies. The ladies of the whole country will be delighted to know the dimensions of a white house ehoe. These are to be SX, width B. Thirty-nine new vessels will be added to the French navy this year, including eight cruisers, one submarine boat and thirty torpedo boats of various kinds for use inshore and upon the High-seas. All of these new vessels are expected to make their trial trips this year, but some of them will not be placed in commission before the middle of next year. All are es French build, and will be launched at Lorient, SaintNazaire, Havre, Cherbourg and Toulon. There is an interesting story, very little known, of how Cruikshank conceived his picture of Fagin the Jew. During the time he was illustrating “Oliver Twist” he spent days traversing the east of London in search of a face that would correspond with his con'beption of the character. One day, while •tending before a mirror in his diningroom “pulling faces at himself.” so to •peak, for the want of something better to do, he accidentally made the features for which he was looking. The picture, of Fagin is really that of •Cruikshank himself. Beggaby in tlfe public streets is one ■of the most difficult of all the evils of pauperism to suppress. Not once in a hundred times is the man or woman ■who accosts a stranger on the public •treet a worthy object of charity, says the Philadelphia Press. It is a matter of personal experience which any one can duplicate who has the experience that ody one deserving case will be found In eleven years of inquiry and investigation among street beggars. The ignorant and thoughtless public, howover, gives these cases so much encouragement that begging on the streets steadily increases.