Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1902 — Arrow Shots. [ARTICLE]

Arrow Shots.

A Wisconsin man named Creeper named his daughter Alice Virginia and now ner schoolmates torment her by writing it-“A Virginia Creeper.” On January 6th, the President had to affix, with a pen on parchment, his signature to some eighteen hundred army commissions. And some people deny that the President is overworked. In the current number of the Liber al Review, President Roosevelt, in an article on “Good Citizenship” says the essentials of good citizens are “courage, honesty and common sense; and a litt'e knowledge of history.” New South Wales has passed a law making arbitration in labot disputes compulsory. This is following the precedent set by New Zealand about five years ago, which has so far proved eminently satisfactory to both employer and employed. The British press is drawing invidious Comparisons between American and English millionaires. They allege that the English millionaires are stingy, but hope in time may be induced to emulate the munificent example of Mr. Carnegie. Out of 77,000 school children recently examined by physicians, 4,600 were found to be suffering from>contagioua diseases. This would suggest the necessity of the regular medical inspection of school children, at least in large cities. As an example of prodigious endurance, the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, after a New Years reception which was attended by nearlv nine thpnsand people, with all of whom the President shook hands, attended the theater in the evening. Although the United States has taken no part officially in the BritishBoer war, according to the Rev. Mr. Broekhuysen, her citizens have contributed over $50,000 to the cause, the largest contribution the Boers have received from outside sources. Having failed to excite the American people to a condition of paroxsysmal hysteria over the de monitization of silver, Mr. Bryan has tamed his attention to the Boers and is trying to precipitate trouble be tween the United States and Great Britain. Sixty per cent of the candidates for enlistment in General Baden Powell’s police have been rejected on the ground of bad teeth”, says a London cablegram. Evidently England has come to a point where she mast recruit among the lame and the aged.

A New. York reporter stationed at a street corner' in the shopping dla> trict counted the long and short skirts worn by ladies who passed during one hour. Of the 320 women who went by, seventy-five per cent wore short skirts. The good sense of American women is evidently a reform which legislation would be powerless to accomplish. The most encouraging feature of wireless telegraphy is the possibility that it will afford complete protection from collision to ocean vessels. Nothing heretofore invented hasaccotnplished this, but on her last voyage the Umbria was made aware, by wireless telegraphy, of the presence of another vessel when it was still seventy five miles distant.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to the earth; I know not where. —Longfellow. People who know more about a saw horse than any other kind will go to a horse show and pretend to be interest ed. • •4k- w One thing is settled; if a man is carrying his wife’s hat from the milliner store, he can’t carry anything else. If a man ever did any devilment, all the old women in the neighborhood will remember it against him. More than half of what we say is not worth while mentioning. If you want to see all kinds of handwriting, you should study a hotel register. If you want to see something real fnnny, have your baby pack your gripIt is a wonder that some folks get along at all, considering how little they know. Every person who borrows your lead pencil sticks it into his mouth first thing. It Hatters a man to be asked his advice, even if he knows nothing at all about what you want to know. Some men’s only boast is, that they were there first. Men in town will build fine barns and then keep their horses at the livery stable. A life insurance agent will admit that there are other good companies besides his, but he always follows the statement with a “but.” Usually the man who walks ahead of the band can’t play a note. A woman will have a friendly visit over the telephone half an hour long and the moment she hangs up the receiver, she will say “some people never know when to quit.” Some men boast that they never spend any money to go to the “tne-aye-ter.”

When a murder trial is being held, all the old men will tell you how they once had a fight. Some men’s only boast is that they always had to hustle for themselves, and frequently they do not show a very good job. A great many people think if they had plenty of money, they would do nothing but travel.

The smaller the town, the longer the funeral services. ■m. ws. Considering how mad people get when they hear some little thing that is said about them, we just wonder what they would do if they knew all that is Said. Lodges will often quarrel over the arrangements for a funeral. Just a few men run every church and every lodge. Some men enjoy their own smart ness so that we always envy them If a man starts a fire and grinds tne cofferf, he thinks he has done a good deal toward getting breakfasc. Everybody seems to be in trouble.

Mr. and Mrs. Jonas G. Clark, parents of Mrs. Henry Amsler, celebrated in a quiet way their 61st wedding anniversary last Friday. They have resided here only since October, coming here from Brushton, N. Y. Mr. Clark is 89 years of age and Mrs Clark 84. '