People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — WHAT OTHERS SAY. [ARTICLE]

WHAT OTHERS SAY.

The rainfall for this county the last nine months is about seventeen inches below the norma]. An average rainfall for the same length of time has been observed to be about thirty inches, and this season has been only about thirteen inches.—Winamac Republican. The well-diggers are now reaping their harvest. The pumps are going dry. and over by the state line they have to go from 100 to 150 feet for water. A contributor says: “Keep on tiling and then we can have our water shipped to us from Lake Michigan.’’—Lowell Tribune. The shucks from the sweet corn at the canning factory are much sought after by those who have cattle and are short of pasturage. —Brook Up to Date. The mammoth Arena, Roby’s new prize-fighting building, was totally destroyed by fire Monday night. At the time this institution was in operation a greater disgrace was never endured in Lake county or the state of Indiana. And we guess no one will shed any tears over the loss, especially law-abiding citizens. —Lowell Tribune. A county superintendent in a neighboring county recently told every teacher* in the county institute who took their local paper to hold up their hand, and out of about one hundred only six responded. at which he expressed great surprise, and said: “You don't spend one dollar and a half a year with these papers and you expect them to print, free of charge, notices of institutes, insert long programs of same, and full reports of what you say and do on all these occasions and expect them to advertise you and youi ability in your chosen profession. thus assisting you to i positions and better salaries, without any patronage in re

turn.’’ He closed by saying: “Your position in this would lead me, were I. an editor, to promptly throw into the waste baskelany communications sent by the society, the members of which are too proud or too stingy to take a paper; or, if I inserted it, to demand full advertising rates for every one published.”—Medaryville Advertiser. It is surprising how many things kerosene oil is good for. A Long Island man has found out that if kerosene oil is poured on the surface of stagnant ponds, puddles and water holes where mosquitoes breed, it will exterminate them. This summer L. O. Howard, chief government entomologist of the agricultural department at Washington, cleared the Cornell university campus of these insects simply by pouring kerosene into some postholes that had water in them. Kerosene serves so many useful purposes that it is hard to see how the world kept house before it was discovered.—Exchange.

Some of the farmers in this vicinity are buying calves and hogs to consume the 15 cent oats.—Wolcott Enterprise. A fellow representing himself as connected with the Western Sportsman has been working some parts of this state by proposing to give local sportsmen a write-up in that paper, accompanied with their portraits. He has succeeded in gathering up a large collection of photographs and quite a sum of money advanced by his victims. The write-up never appears.—Monticello Herald. Cement street crossings have been put in on the north and south sides of the public square at private expense. As they had to be built to the new grade, which is several inches lower than the present surface of the

street they serve the purpose of canals much better than street crossings at present. The stockholders are hoping for the early improvement of these streets, amd the board cannot order the work begun any too soon.—Monticello Herald. The Indianapolis Sun states that it is the opinion of the bar of that city that the Acts of 1895 as issued by the Secretary of State are full of errors. Many of the blunders are pointed out which they claim would render citing from this compilation extremely unreliable An Arkansas judge, after a long and careful judicial inquiry has decided that bloomers are not an indecent dress. Now the “new woman ” may'advance another step, until a decision on the knickerbocker puts her alongside the masculine sex when, for purposes of discrimination. a branding process will have to be adopted.—lndianapolis Sun. Teachers’ examinations have become so difficult of late that it would hustle a good many college presidents to make a passing grade. Some of the questions. too. are by no means calculated to test the fitness of the applicant to teach. In some counties, as a result, there are not enough licensed teachers to supply the schools.--Monticello Herald. “Did you observe." said a merchant to a customer, “the handsome advertisement I have had painted on the railing of the bridge?" ••No." replied the customer, “but if you will send the bridge around to my house, , I will try and read the announce- ! ment. I read the papers and ! haven’t time to go around from place to place to read the bill boards." And the merchant scratched his head and walked off. Delphi Citizen.