Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1883 — “Low Lived Literature.” [ARTICLE]

“Low Lived Literature.”

The bill to repeal the State Board of Health law was indefinitly postponed. Seiiator Keiser’s bill establishing the new judicial circuit No. 44, composed of Stark and Pulaski counties, was passed last week. The Rochester Sentinel has made the discovery, from within its inner consciousness, of course, that an effort is to be made to change the name of DeMotte, the Village in this county. The regular March term of the Commissioners Court next Monday, March sth. Among the most important matters to come before the Board this term will be the appointment of a Superintendent of the Poor harm; and rebuilding the bridges destroyed by the high waters. The Winamac papers seem to be a law unto themselves so far as the use of the English language is concerned. The “Democrat” in speaking of the floods says in its headlines that “The wateis are gradually reclining.” Reclining means to lean backwards or side., ways. Which of the two ways the Winamac waters lean the Democrat does not condescend to state. The Republican of the same town remarks that a certain little boy “is still precarious with brain fever.” A disease, by the # way, which it is physiologically impossible for the person who used “precarious” in that construction ever to be afflicted with.

Monro, the publisher of the | yellow-backed novels, has endowed three tutorships in a Halifax college.—New Carlisle Gazette. And now he should be forced to appropriate his spare change toward j 'urchasing fire-escapes from hades. Lagrange Democrat. Correct. George Monro has pre pared enough souls for residence in that imaginary sphere by his low trashy publications, to require ten times his ill gotten wealth to redeem. —Warsaw Herald. Now look here, brethren, you are letting your anxiety to. say something smart, lead yon into folly and injustice. To George Monro, more than any other liv-‘ ing man, is due the honor of proving that good novels can be published as cheaply as bad ones. Take up a number of the “Sea Side Library,” the publication by which George Monro has gained his shekles, md you will find that the list of authors whose works are published in that series, includes the names of all the eminent European novel writers of two generations. “Low trashy publications’’! Great Scott! and Oh, the Dickens! George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Walter Scott,Thackeray,the Bronte sisters, Jane Austin, Victor lingo, Charles Kingsley, Jane Porter, Bernardino St. Pierre, Dinah Mulock, Are those the kind of people who write “low trashy publications,’? Brethren, yon make us tired. It will be noticed that services are announced in two of the churches on next Saturday evening, the night of the G. A. IL, “Camp l ire.” The members of the Post Lave taken a great deal of pains m preparing for their entertainment, and in their interest we suggest the postponing the proposed church services of that evening.