Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1881 — Ventilation. [ARTICLE]

Ventilation.

The temptations to close rooms and lioor ventilation begin now to increase, [t is cheaper to heat a room which is entirely shut up, if fuel is only considered; but if doctors’ bills,'loss of time,and shortened life aud medicines are taken into account, there is not much economy in the saving of fuel by shuting out fresh air. Fashion sometimes stumbles into a good path, and the revival of open fire places is an instance. The poor city children, who are thrown like shuttlecocks from the terrible schoolroom to the almost as terrible playroom at home, get scarcely enough fresh air in their passage from one to the other to keep them alive, and they fall an easy prey to the foes, scarlet fever, diptheria and the like, which now go stalking about. This warning is nothing new, neither is the evil; and while the evil lasts we must keep giving the warning.

Benjamin Harrison, the great grandfather of the new senator from Indiana, was sent in 1774 as a delegate from Virginia to congress. From that date until his death, in 1791, he was prominent in public affairs, being a signer of the declaration of independence, twice a member of congress and three times gdvernor of Virginia. His son, General William Henry Harrison, served his country, both in the army and in cjivil office, from 1791 until 1841, when he died, one month after taking the oalh of office as President. President Hairison’s son, John Scott Harrison, was a member of Congress from 1833 to 1837, and died a year or two ago at his home in Cincinnati. General Benjamin Harrison, the new senator, was born August 20, 1833, at his grandfather’s home at North Bend, Ohio, some fifteen miles below Cincinnati, on the Ohio river.

The pope’s letter of January 3 to the Irish C atholic bishops has been published. It amounts to no more than an expression of the lively interest the Vatican takes in the welfaie of its faithful and devoted people in Ireland and a request that the bishops shall use their influence to allay excited feelings aud keep the influence of passion from lighting the flames of sedition. It Is the opinion of his holiness that the Irish people are more likely to obtain what the wantby adopting a course that the laws allow, an avoiding offense, than they will by an ultra and revolutionary one. Moderation, submission to thorn; In authority, cte., are enjoined. The letter contains nothing either new or alarming, gnd Is not Hkelp to have much Influence with those who are committed to the land reform agitation.

An angel was descrilx‘d by a certain excitable person at the Seventh Day Adventists’ tabernacle, Battle (’reek, Mich., on new year’s eve. It appeared at a large window, and was distinctly seen for at least a minute. The attention of those present was attracted toward it by a brilliant light which streamed through the window. It is described as dressed in flowing white garments, with a halo about its head from which radiated the most brilliant light—so bright that those who looked upon it were dazzled, being unable to take their gaze from it until it disappeared as suddenly as it appeared. r The following Is an epitaph from a tomb near \ e real Iles: “Except in 1859 during which for several days she took lessons on tha piano, her life was without a strain?'