Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1882 — Page 6

RENSSELAER REPUBLICAH. MARSHALL A OVERACKER, Proprietor* RENSSELAER, : :

The comet will be most brilliant in this latitude on May 29. These sudden changes of weather are bad for man, beast and crops. There have been sold of Appleton’s Cyclopaedia 81,222 sets, or 1,469,650 volumes. The operating expenses of the Union Pacific road is exactly sixteen dollars a minute. Cincinnati has the small-pox and a musical festival at the same time. Unhappy Cincinnati. Titio Viznoli, the eminent European writer, has just published an essay on “Myth and Science.” Over $40,000 worth of chewing gum is gathered in Maine every year, More prohibition is needed down there. M. Renan, the great infidel, will start for the Holy Land and Sinai at the beginning of October, and return in January Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt pays her cook $7,000 per year. He was formerly employed by the Baroness de Rothschild. Trinity Episcopal church, New York city, dates from 1644 and enjoys the revenue from fifty million dollar’s worth of property. The court en banc from which Guiteau expected so much, has dashed his hopes to the ground. Already the shadow of the gibbet is upon him. The recent wonders are a shower of stones as large as a man’s fist at Bedford, Indiana, and a shower of catfish six inches long, at Morning Sun, lowa. Mrs. Scoville is preparing a lecture tour through the west. We are very sorry now that we did hot accept that appointment to South America. ,

The scheme of converting the great Sahara Desert into a sea is being discussed by the French cabinet. An .immense channel from the ocean is to inundate the desert. y The latest plan fo* reaching the north pole is that of a Washington correspondent, who proposes to establish a depot of supplies at the highest attainable and tenable latitude, and tunnel from that point. A gentleman who has been travel ing through lowa on business stated that in over one thousand mi%s of territory he had not seen a single hay stack. Animal food is very scarce, and there is some alarm felt with just cause. Transparent leather, the scientific papers say, is now being made in Germany, and it is likely that the pedestrian of the future will be able to see hit neighbor’s corn growing while pretty girls will have to powder up and paint their bunions. The alligators'have not yet been found in the northern rivers in any great numbers, ip accordance with Professor Blake’s' prophecy, but a shovel-nosed sturgeon, a tropical fish, and never belore known north of the lower Mississippi, was recently caught in the White river, Indiana. Five young girls of Cleveland, 0., assumed the black veil on Saturday at the Ursuline convent in that city. After receiving the veil and signing the vows they had publicly made, the novices prostrated themselves upon the floor, face down, and arranged their arms in the form of a cross. While thus prostrate little children appeared, clad in white, and strewed flowers upon them as emblematic of the spiritual honors of the other world that shall reward self-sacrifice in this.

A scientific paper conveys a sad warning to hotel clerks. It notes that frequent impurities found by micro* scopic investigation to exist in the diamond' O ganic matter, carbon and bubbles of gas are common im* purities. Quartz, chlorite, pyrite and hematite have recently been discovered in diamonds, and small crystals o f topaz have also been seen. One of these days sinne hotel clerk’s big diamond shirt Stud will explode and a seetion of the pyrite and hemotite it contains will knock the whole top of his head off. ’

Tackeled The Wrong Man.

J F. Callonatte, of White Lake, Sullivan County,'N. Y.., is a guest at the Everett House. On Wednesday, while on the Ohio and Missippi road, he saw a passenger have an adventure with monte men. One of the men claimed to hail from Rochester, New York, and to be en route to Denver. He sat down beside the honest passenger and engaged him in conversation. Presently three other card sharps appeared and took seats opposite their victim. The last comer told how he was on his way heme to Texas, from Buffalo, N. Y.,/where he had sold ten car-loaas of long-horned cattle and had been swindled out of SSOO of his money by a little card game. The first monte man had any amount of sympathy for him. The latter said he had learned the game he had been cheated at, and when he got home would get even with the “d—n yanks,” as there were plenty of them around San Antonia as well as Buffalo. He even pulled out his cards and said he would show his comrade and the honest passenger how the game worked. He wanted to bet that he could pick up the joker every time, at the same-time making a private mark upon it and giving the passenger the wink. Texas had a large roll of bills. He bet $lO with his partner that he could pick up the boker and lost. He bet S2O and lost again. Then Texas refused to go his partner any more. His partner advised the honest passenger to try for it, for it was a sure thing and he could win a couple of hundred and then give it back with some good Christian advice. Then that honest passenger arose and said that lie carried nothing but a Colt’s revolver, a pencil and memorandum book. He pulled out all of these, but only used the pencil and book, taking a description of the monte sharps, which is now in the hands of the Chief of Police.

A Favorite Female Fancy.

One of ti e most cherished delusions that most women sutler from is their individual liability to cancer. Cases of cancer are so extremely rare that when one is re* orted the public press and the doctors make a great ado over it. Fortunately it is rare, for it is an extremely malignant disease, and when it has attacked an organ there is very little hope of effectually removing it, for in the most insidious way its fibrous ramifications extend in all directions. Yet, notwithstanding these facts, it is reported that a lady well known in art circles in Cincinnati, who has been almost at death’s door for sometime past from internal cancer, having been given up by her physicians and friends, resolved upon a system of prayer, and calling in a city missionary they prayed so effectually that in three months the cancer was reduced one-half in size and is now rapidly disappearing, this is certainly a remarkable case, and indicates that if the lady had had as much faith in her doctors as she had in the prayerr she would never have been brought to death’s door. But there is every reason why she should not have trusted her doctor, for it is quite evident that, like ninety-hundredths of her sex who think they are suffering from the same thing, she never had a cancer, for one that had brought the sufferer to death’s door would not give up the fight in this manner

Curious Facts.

An ostrich egg is considered equivalent to twenty-four eggs of the domestic hen. Chapman says that the Bushmen of Bouth Africa thought his big wagon was the mother of his small one. Mounds have been found in the Pyrenees as’distinctin tieir resemblance to animal forms as any American mounds. A complete set of papier-mache furniture inlaid with mother-ot-pearl, was made a few years ago for the queen of Spain. Whales have been recently seen on the Georgia coast, and have become so bold that they even enter inland streams. The caterpillar of the silk-worm, when fully developed, is 70,000 times heavier than when it came from the eggA French insane woman had a deep affection for pins, and made them a part of her daily diet. After her death 1,400 or 1,600 pins were removed from different parts of her body. The pine-needles of the Silesian forests have been converted into forest wool, which besides being efficacious ip cases of rheumatism, can be curled, felted and woven. Western men frequently die with their boots on, and Eastern men frequently feel like dying under similar circumstances. We believe that the execution of a few shoemakers would go far toward helping this matter. Two tugboats are about to start from Craney Island, Va., with a raft of lumber 275 feet long, which is to be towed to New York. This is the firs' attempt at such an undertaking, and the raft has been solidly constructed to withstand the action of the sea. Queen Victoria recently cenferred the decoration of the Victoria Crosupon Lieut. Henry Lysons and Private Edmond Fowler, both of the Secs ond battalion of the Cameronians, for conspicuous bravery in Zululand. On the 28th of March, 1879, during the assault of the Inhlobane mountains, Sir Evelyn Wood ordered thedislodgmentof certain Zulus from strong natural oaves commanding the position in which seme of the wounded were lying. Some delay occurring in the execution of the orders issued, Capt. Ronald Campbell, Coldstream guards, followed by Lieut. Lysons, aid-dj-carap, and Private Fowler

rim forward in the most determined manner, and advanced over a mass of fallen boulders and between walls of rock which led to a cave in which the enemy lay hidden. It being impossible for two men to walk abreast, the assailants were consequently obliged to keep in single file, and, as Capt. Campbell was leading, he arrived first at the mouth of the cave, from which the Zulus were firing, and there met his death. Lieut. Lysous and Private Fowler,who were following close behind him, immediate dashed at the cave, from which led several subterranean passages,and firing into the chasm below, succeeded in forcing the occupants to forsake their stronghold. Lieut. Lysons remained at the cave’s mouth for some minutes after the attack, during which time Capt. Campbell’s body was carried down the slope.

Panther vs. Bear.

Peter Stewart was once hunting in Rockland, when he saw some deer bones lying at thejnsath of a crfcvice in some rocks. He knew thSfc it was a panther’s den, and that the bones were the remnant of a feast the occupants had made on a deer they had captured. Stewart hid himself behind a tree and awaited developments. Imagine his surprise when he saw a big bear come out of the cave, carrying under its arm a panther kitten, which was squalling and kicking with all its might. The bear rose on its haunebes, and gave the kitten a box or two on the ears with its fore paw, squeezed it to death and threw it on the ground. The bear then returned to the Gave, and in a short time came out with another kitten under its arm. This was treated as its companion had been. What the future intentions of the bear were Stewart never found out, for the second kitten had barely been killed when the aiother panther appeared on the scene. This seemed to take the hear by surprise. The old panther saw her kittens lying on the ground. She bounded first to one and then to the other, smelling and licking them, and uttering plaintive cries. Then she turned on the bear, which remained in the erect position it had assumed when squeezing the second kitten to death. With a yell that almost froze the blood of the hunter, used as he was to the fury of panthers, she sprang upon the bear, and fastened her claws in its shaggy coat and her fangs in its. throat. The bear hurled its antagonist ten feet away with its powerful paws, and then attempted to escape a second attack by flight. But the panther was upon it in an instant, and a terrific conflict ensued. The bear endeavored to catch the panther in its hug, but the latter was too agile, and with every spring upon its huge enemy the panther inflicted terrible wounds with its sharp claws. The blood poured from a dozen great gashes in the bear’s body, and at last the panther leaped on the bear as it stood facing her, and, fastening her teeth in its throat, thrust the long, sharp nails of her hind feet into its vitals. The bear fell to the ground dead. As the panther was returning to its dead kittens, Stewart shot her through the heart.

The Founder of Mormonism.

Joe Smith was born in Rutland, Vt., about the time that Wingate, the combined forger and charlatan, made such a sensation there. He removed, when a youth, to Palmyra, N. Y., and there liigdon found him. Smith was full of magnetism, full of warm blood, a hearty, generous fellow — from the description an original, untutored Jim Fisk. After proper training, Smith became the prophet and liigdon the inspiration behind him, putting cuififußg words into the mouth of the boor. At last Smith, finding how pleasant it was to play prophet, and flattered by the devotion paid him drew away from the cold Rigdon. For one of his ?en. ual nature, it was but natural to oouflude that if celestial plural marriages were good it was a grievous waste of time to wait for death to sauctifythem, that real women were to be to doubtful and unsubstantial ghosts, and that the right thing was to be sealed to those still in the flesh. So he had a revelation; polygamy became a part of the Mormon religon, and Joe Smith a little Mohammed. Followers began to flock rapidly around Smith. Probably, without being conscious of the fact, he had ma.de animalism the keystone in the arch of his creed, and given to his church all the adhesiveness which cements Christian creeds, and in addition all the fascination which, to sens'jal natures, clings to Mohammedism. Thence forth the institution thrived until it became so much of a nuisance and took on attributes of such menace to free government, that in a paroxysm of rage the mob killed Smith. Though his life had been full of irregularities, in the hearts of his followers li is death made him a martyred prophet who had died for his people, and ever since he has been held by them as one to be reverenced next to the Nazarene.

An Animal Cemetery.

“The burial-place for pet animals, dogs, cats, and little birds,” is emerging from the region of dreams. The prospects for the “Zoological Necropolis association (limited),” which lies before us with its imposing array of patrons, directors, l ankers, solicitors and secretaries, shows that the scheme is being pushed in the orthodox commercial fashion, and any one who wishes to subscribe can purchase as many of five thousand $2 shares as his inclination leads him and his finances permit. The burial-ground is to be established “within a few miles of London,” and, “if wished for a tribute to their memory can be erected by those who 1 )ve them.” In due shall have a cats’ undertake setting up in business, but for the present it is sufficient to say that the offices of the Cats’ Cemetery company are at No. 27 Henrietta street, Cavendish square, W., where all necessary information can be obtained by intending shareholders. St James’s Gazette. A timely use of Brown’s iron bitters will strengthen the nerves and muscles with new life and vigor, and ward off many diseases that otherwise are sure to encroach upon a weak constitution.

A Valuable Table.

The following table gives the quantity of seed and number of plants requisite to crop an acre of land, and will prove valuable to farmers and gardeners, and to families generally who may have only a small garden. It can always be referred to t set one right in any matter of doubt con nected with the subjects involved: Asparagus in 12-inch drills, 16 quarts Asparagus plants, 4 by 1J feet, 8,000. Barley, 2} bushels. , Beans, bush, in drills 2| feet, lj bushels. Beans, pole, Lima, 4 by 4 feet, 20 quarts. Beans, Carolina, prolific, etc., 4by 3,10 qts. Beets and mangolds, drills, 2 j feet, 9 pounds. Broom corn in drills, 12 pounds. Cabbage, outside, for transplanting, 12 oz. Cabbage sown in frames 4 Ounces. Carrot in drills, 2£ feet, 4 pounds. Celery, seed, 8 ounces. Celery, plant, 4 by \ feet, 25,000. Clover, white Dutch, 13 pounds. Clover, Lucerne, 10 pounds. Clover,: Aliske, 6 pounds. Clover, large red with timothy, 12 pounds. Clover, large red without timothy, 16 lbs Corn, sugar, 10 quarts. Com, field, 8 qtfarts. Com, salad, drill ten inches, 25 pounds. Cucumber, in hills, 3 quarts. Cucumber, in drills, 4 quarts. Egg plant, plants 3 by 2 feet, 4 ounces. Endive, in drills, 21 feet, 3 pounds. Flax, broadcast, 20 quarts. Grass, timothy with clover, 6 quarts. Grass, timothy without clover, 10 quarts. Grass, orchard, 25 quarts. Grass, red top or herds, 20 quarts. Grass, blue, 28 quarts. Grass, rye, 20 quarts. Grass, millet, 32 quarts. Hemp, broadcast, 1 bushel. Kale, German greens, 3 pounds. Lettuce, in rows, 2| feet, 3 pounds. Leek, 4 pounds. Lawn grass, 35 pounds. Melons, water, in hills 8 by 8 feet, 3 pounds. Melons, citrons, in hills 4 by 4 feet, 2 lbs. Oats, 2 bushels. Okra, in drills, 21 by \ feet, 20 pounds. Onion, in beds for sets, 50 pounds. Onion, in rows for large bulbs, 7 pounds. Parsnip, in drills 21 feet, 5 pounds. Pepper, plants, 21 by 1 foot, 17,500. Pumpkin, in hills 8 by 8 feet, 2 quarts. Parsley, in drills 2 Jeet, 4 pounds. Peas, in drills, short varieties, 2 bushels. Peas, id drills, tall varieties, 1 to 11 bush. Peas, broadcast, 3 bushels. Potatoes, 8 bushels. Radish, in drills 2 feet, 10 pounds. Rye, broadcast, 1$ bushels. Rye, drilled, 11 bushels. Salsify, in drills 21 feet, 10 pounds. Spinach, broadcast, 30 pounds. Squash, bush, in hills 4 by 4 feet, 3 pounds. Squash, running, 8 by 8 feet, 2 pounds. Sorghum, 4 quarts. Turnips, in drills 2 feet, 3 pounds. Turnips, broadcast, 3 pounds. Tomatoes, in frames, 3 ounces. Tomatoes, seed'in hills 3by 3 feet, 8 ozs. Tomatoes, plants, 3,800. Wheat, in drills, 11 bushels. Wheat, broadcast, 2 bushels.

Only a Common Fly.

.liO part of fly structure is more wonderful than the mouth. Watch a common fly alight on a piece of sugar. From the under surface of the head, apparently, is unfolded a long organ looking very like an additional leg; and with this structure the fly scrapes the sugar, licks up the cream, spoilates the jam, and, as we shall presently note, effects destruction in other and varied ways. To understand what the organ in question is, let us briefly glance at the typical structure of the # insect-mouth. Four sets of organs or appendages compose the “mouth.” There is first an upper lip, then a pair of large jaws, then a pair of lesser jaws—forming a tube or tongue in butterflies —and last of all a lower lip. In a beetle the chief mouth organs are the greater and lesser jaws; whilst in a bee of wasp the jaws are also well developed for the work of the hive, but the under lip forms a “tongue” wherewith the bee sucks up honey from the flowers. Now, in the fly, the mouth parts are of a modified nature. Speaking generally, the “jaws” are represented by small bristle-like organs, and the upper lip is developed; but it is the labium or under lip which comes to tjie front in the development of the fly’s mouth. Here it forms, as in the bees, the chief organ of nutrition. It is the under lip which we see unfolded from beneath the head when the ily attacks the sugar. And when we place this organ beneath the objectglass of our microscope we can readily dicover the secret of its service. The “tongue,” as we may term the under lip, consists of a stalk highly movable and muscular, at the end of which a couple of broad leaves expand outward from the middle to form a sucker.-like organ, beautifully adapted for licking up fluids and for scratching solid matters also. This fan-like end is supported on a firm tubular framework acting as a set of springs to open and shut the tans, whilst the microscope shows us that this structure is really like a file or rasp in its nature. We can understand, then, readily enough how such a muscular organ can be used for the purposes of fly nourishment. When, after a summer of flies, the morocco covers of our books and the finely polished surfaces of our furniture are scratched and eroded, we can readily appreciate the cause of the damage. The fly’s tongue is a file wherewith it wages war even on ourselves. For, as a famous authority on insects remarks, it is by this means that the fly “teases us in the heat of summer, when it alights on the hand or face to sip the perspiration as it exudes from, and is condensed upon the skin.”

Washington, D. C., May 15th, 1880 Gentlemen —Having been a sufferer for a long time from nervpus prostration and jeneral debility, I was advised to try Hop Bitters. I have taken one bottle and I have been rapidly getting better ever since, and I think it thi< best medicine I ever used. I am now gaining strength and appetite, which was all gone, and I waa in despair until I tried your Bitters. I an* now well, able to go about and do my own work. Before taking it I was completely prostrated.

MRS. MARY STUART.

Montgomery Sears, of Boston, has bought the library of the Germau" poet, Freiligrats. It contains 5,000 volumes, with first editions of Byron’s and Burns’ poems.

Chleago.

Flour—Qaiet and unchanged. Grain—Wheat dull and lower; No. 2 Chicago spring, $1 23)6 @1 24; No. 3 Chicago spring, $1 13@115. Corn active and lower, Oatsin fair demand at lower rates, 53c. Rye steady and unchanged. Barley dull ana nominal. Flaxseed—Steady and unchanged. Butter—Quiet and unchanged. Eggs—Steady and unchanged. Provisions —Pork fairly active aod a shade higher; sl9 15 cash, May and June; sl9 32@19 32)6 July; sl9 50@ 19 52)6 August; sl9 70 September. Lard easier, sll @ll 40 cash; sll4O @ll 42)6 June; sll 62)6 July; sll 65 @ll 67)6 August; sll 75@11 77)6 September. Bulk meats in fair demairo at lower rates; shoulders, $8 50; short rib, $1115; short clear, sll 70. Whisky—Steady and unchanged, $1 16. Call —Wheat irregular, $1 23)6@ 124 May. Oats *dull, dro ping and declined Pork unsettled and generally lower; sl9 12)6 June; sl9 30 July; sl9 47)6 August; sl9 62)6@ 19 67)6 September. Lard easier but not quotably lower. Hogs—Receipts 24,000; shipments 2,600; general demand fair; market averages strong; closing weak; common to good mixed, $7 10@7 70; light, $7 15@7 75; heavy packing and snipping, unchanged; Philadelphias $7 75 @8 25; skips and culls, $5 00@6 90. Cattle—Receipts, 5,000; shipments', 1,300; weak and averaging 10c lower on rough, heavy and lean; exports $7 40@7 85; good to choice shipping, $6 90@7 20; common to fair, $5 90@ 6 80; mixed butchers’steady, $2 75@ 6 60; grass Texans active; poor to fair, $4 00@4 75; medium to good, $4 90@ 5 30; good to choice, $5 50@6 00; Stockers and feeders, $3 50@5 80. Sheep—Receipts, 600; shipments, 100; steady and firm; common to fair, $4 00@5 00; medium to good, $5 25@ 5 75; choice to extra, s6 00@7 50; shorn, $5 20@5 35.

New York Produce.

Flour—Quiet; superfine state and western, $4 00@5 15; common to good extra, $5 00@5 80; good to choice extra, $5 85@9 25; white wheat extra, $7 25 @9 25; extra Ohio, $5 20@8 50; St. Louis, $5 20@9 25; Minnesota patents, $7 50@9 65. Grain—Wheat opened %c lower and weak, but afterwards recovered from decline and advanced % to %c, closing dull; No 2 spring, $136; ungraded spring, 99c; ungraded red, $1 10@1 47%;N04d0, $127@128; No 3 do, $140; No 2 red, $144; February, $1 45%@1 45% ;certificates, $1 46 delivered; steamer No 2 red, $1 39% ; ungraded white, $1 40@1 43 elevator; $144% February. Corn opened %@%c lower, but subsequently strong and recovered, closing dull andjweak; ungraded, 83@86%c; No 2, 86@86%c. Oats % to lc higher; mixed western, 63@64%c; white do, 63% @69c. Eggs—Western fresh quiet and weak, 19%@20c. Provisions—Pork strong; new mess quoted, sl9 50. Cut meats quiet and stronjj; long clear middles, $1137%@ 11 50; short do, $1175. Lard weak; prime steam, sll 70@11 72%. Butter —Dull and unsettled, 10@ 26c. Cheese—Dull and weak 7@10%c.

Baltimore.

Flour —Quiet and nominally unchanged. Grain—Wheat, western, dull, and steady; No. 2, winter red spot and May $1 40@1 40% bid; June, $1 40 July $1 25; August, $1 ou@l 25. Corn, western dull; mixed spot, and May, 81c; June,'July, 82%c; August, 83%c. Oats, firm; western white, 62c; mixed, 61c; Pennsylvania, 60@ 62c. Rye, fairly active, 95@98c. Hay—Firm, and quiet at sl6 00@ 18 00. Provisions—Firm and higher, mess pork, old, sl9 76; new, S2O 75. Bulk meats,, loose shoulders, $9 50@12 25. Bacon; shoulders, $lO 25; clear rib sides, sl3 25. Hams, sls 25@15 75. Lard, sl2 75. * Butter—Dull and lower; western packed, 18@22c. Eggs—Steady, 20c. Petroleum—Firmer, 7%c. Coffee—Quiet and firm, rio cargoes, 8%@10%c. Sugar—Firm; A soft, 9%c. Whisky—Steady, $1 21 @1 22. Cincinnati. Flour—Quiet; family, $5 a'ney, $6 50@7 25. Grain —Wheat easier, No. 2 red, $135@138. Corn easier, 77%c. Oats higher, 55c. Rye quiet and firm, 81c. Barley scarce and firm, $1 10. Provisions—Pork firm, sl9 75@3000. Lard firm, sll 25. Bulk meats strong, $8 25@11 12%. Bacon in good demand, $8 50@12 00@12 50. Whisky—lrregular; high wines, $1 14; combination sales of finished goods 870 barrels on a basis of $1 12. Butter—Steady ; choice western reserve, 20c; choice western Ohio, 18c. Hogs—Steady and firm; common and light, $6 00@7 75; packing and butchers, $7 25 @8 10. Receipts, 1,800; shipments, 315.

Detroit.

Flour—Unchanged. Grain —Wheat firmer; No. 1 white, $1 37% May, $136; June, $132%; July, $1 27%; August, $1 12%; September, $1 01% bid: year, $1 09% bid; No 2 red, $138; No 2 white, $1 30%. Receipts, wheat, 7,000; shipments, none

Toledo.

Noon board—Wheat dull; No 2 red, $1 36%. Corn, quiet and steady; high mixed, 81c. Oats dull aud unchanged. , Closed —Wheat quiet; No 2 red, $1 36% asked. Com dull; high mixed, 79c bid; No. 2 held T7%c.