Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1882 — Tackeled The Wrong Man. [ARTICLE]

Tackeled The Wrong Man.

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. ’

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.