Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1901 — Colorado’s Flower. [ARTICLE]

Colorado’s Flower.

Among the sessions laws of Colorado is the following: Section 1. The white end lavender colutnbine k hereby made and declared to be the state flower of the state of Colorado. Sec. 2. Whereas, in the opinion of the general assembly, an emergency exlßts, therefore this sot •hall be in force from and after its passage. By this prompt action the stata was saved from insidious propaganda in favor of other flowers.

Slgnt. "Does you b’lieve in signs ?’* asked Miss Miami Brown. “ ’Deed I does,” answered Mr. Erastus Pinkley. "If I had my way, ev’y chicken coop would have a sign on it, so’s we wouldn’t lose so much time locatin’ ’em.”—Washington Star. Manners. Auntie—Don’t you know, Bobbie, that it’s very bad manners to put your knife in your mouth ? Bobbie—Don’t you think, auntie, that it’s very bad manners to stare at your guests when they’re eating? Nipped In the Bud. » “Let me be frank and call your attention to a little fault of yours.” “Certainly, but first lot. me call attention to your fault of not attending to your own business/’— New York Herald. Chance For Doubt. She (gushingly)—Will you love me when I’m old? He—Love you? I shall idolize—um—er— You are not going to look like your mother, are you?— New York Weekly. Only Her Old Man. Mistress—Mary, you had a man in the kitchen last evening. Was he a relative of yours or a friend? Maid—Neither, marm; he was only just my husband —Boston Transcript.

For the benefit of young men with ambitions, we publish the following from an exchange; “H. N. May, trainmaster of the Pan Handle at Logansport, states that the company wants to employ 25 or 30 young men for road and yard brakemen. The requirements specify that applicants shall be between the ages of 21 and 28 years; strictly sober, and not in the habit of frequenting saloons; to be able to give first-class references from five reliable citizens who have known them the greater part of thbir lives; no physical disabilities; weight between 140 and 180 pounds; between 5 feet 6 inches and 6 feet tall in stocking feet; good common school education and inexperienced. Applicant shall address Mr. May in his own hand writing, enclosing a two cent stamp.”

It is said the Wallace show which exhibited in Rensselaer last summer has closed one of the most lucrative seasons in its existence, Having cleared $276,000. Ben Wallace, the proprietor, has become one of the wealthiest men in this part of the state in the last few years through his circus. He has been investing considerable money in Miami county realestate from year to year, and now owns about a mile square of excellent land along the Mississinewa river, near Pern. He hasalso just finished spending $40,000 for interior decorations at his home. His home is probably the finest inside of any in this state. From the outside, however, it is very ordinary in appearance.

The expenses incurred in tho irial and conviction of Leon F. Gznlgosz, the assassin of President McKinley, was $1,790 60. Of this sum's6oo was paid the attorneys who defended him; SI,OOO was paid the alienists who examined him; $144 was paid the deputies who guarded him; S3O was paid for the pictures taken, ami there is a bill of $119.50 for the transportation of Czolgosz and his guards to Auburn. This bill, it. is expected, the state will pay.

Congressman Crum packer, the Indiana congressman who had the cour age to stand by his convictions, is to be renominated by the Republicans of the Tenth district by acclamation, and there is not even any talk of his having opposition. In the long run the people of any community admire a man better than a coward.—Rich mond Item.

A Crown Point paper stages that Charles Vickory, the old man who died recently in Barkley township without disclosing hiH previous history, was a resident of that city up to five years ago at different periods. While there he worked at a hotel and at that time received letters from relatives.