Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1881 — Sunday Laws In Washington. [ARTICLE]

Sunday Laws In Washington.

Citizens who complain us what are called the Sunday laws in New York haeba far larger measure of liberty on [the first day of the week than the inhabitants of the city of Washington would have if certain statues still in existence there were strictly enforced. Ta® B ® law « were enacted in 1728 by the Maryland legislature, were continued in foree when the Diet, of Columbia was ceded to tite U. States; and still exist/ forbid any one to work on Sunday, or to allow hi* servants to gamble, hunt or fish on that day. The penalty in such a case is a fine of 200 pounds of tobacco. The laws also provide that whoever shall assert religious or. irreligious opinions of a far milder type than Mr. Ingemoll has boldly proclamed; iii that city, shall pay £2O, and “be bored through the tongue.” In respect to some of our noisy unbelievers, it’ may be said that not they but their hearers are bored. For a second offence the offender must pay a duoble fine and “be stigmagmatlted by burning in the forhead with the letter B.” Some of our noisy unbelievers would probabably regard this brand as a first-rate advertise-ment.-—Evening Poet.

At one time the late Czar was prevailed upon to wear a chain breastplate under his tunic,but, though on© of the lightest kind was made fin: Mm he could not bear its weight, so the expedient was adopted of causing his tunics to be padded with cotton wool steeped in a preparation which hardenedit, not bullet proof, at least proof, and difficult for even a a bullet to pierce at a long shot. An attempt was made some ttmo %eo poison the Czar by sending him a petition covered with some noiious powder, since which he ceased to receive letters, papers, or petitions. For a similar reason he gave up smoking. though he used to like a cigar and he drank no wine but from bottles uncorked in his presence. In the imperial kitchen the Czar’s food was two police guards—not that the cook himself could incur any suspicion, but because some conspirator might have got at the ingredient* he was preparing The food was always cooked in the simplest way, without SEE. tastei by two offlehtfa before it was served at the Czar's table. Everything that Alex-, ander 11. ate or drank was tasted in his presence, and all the attendance is-SSsa* b >-

A Bio -SNO,wpRtEX.--The- Northwestern railway company has a Dent oyer SBOO,OOO in the fight against snow since October last. Thirty-four in£ mense snow plows have had plentvaf work, and these havebeeobacked up tremendously by from two to six locomotives each.. The might of these > plows snd the great power of snow dhft may be estimated from the facts the oneplow weighing 48,000 pounds ballasted by 80,000 pounds of'VailwaS driven by six locomotives, attacked a snow-choked cutting hot was defeated. The drift high. When the workmen after the if e^!^°U 8 Caught a glimpse ?! plow, -they found that It, with silts 128,000 jxmnds, hSd as if it were a father, and that it had rolled disconsolatelv over the drift and lodged against it up full again. Nine thousand men nave been employed from time to time during the winter as shovelere.

Mr Tburber, of the girl's high school in Boston, read before them. classical e »/hd paper on the admission to college on the recommendation oftfae teacher He considered this the best method He topched on the evils which react on the school as weH as the ooUeSm the admission of pupils imDrooerlv prepared, and said that the the colleges ©ould, confer on the schools would be to send them back Then, he claimed, the influence of the school and the authority of the teacher would be reinforced, the trepidation and the cramming’lncident to an examination were evils to be avoided of mipils from familiarity with their attainments; and the consciousness on the part of thb pupil' that his own conduct and pioficfency as tested by his career in the school, and not by a brief examination, should govern Wsjjrospecte, would have a gobd efs|ii§«§£s progress is opening before it.” 1