Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1883 — Page 3

THE TIRED FOOT. *. • - ■ • - ♦ • - The potter stood at his daily work, One patient foot on the ground— The other, with never-slackening speed, Turning his swift wheel round. Silent, we stood besides him there. Watching the restless knee. Till my friend said low, in pitying voice, “How tired his f *ot must be!” The potter never paused in his work, Shaping the wondrous thing; Twas only a eommon flower-pot, But perfect in fashioning. Slowly raising his patient eyes. With homely truth inspired: “No, marm —it isn't the foot that kicks; The one that stands gets tired!” Our Continent.

A CURIOUS RACE.

Lieutenant Bove’s Account of the Jagaus in Terra del Fuego. •$ _ London Daily News. The Jagans impress oue as a poor race. Tn general the men are scarcely more than o* medium statue, while the women rarely reach it The face of this race is round, large and flat, with huge cheek bones, low foreheads, large and flat noses, very black and restless eyes wide apart, large tumid lips and strong jaws furnished with| beautiful teeth. The head and chest are disproportionaly large, compared to the extreme slenderness of armsand legs, and it is a marvel that the latter can support the well-developed trunk and heavy head. In spite of this strange formation both men and women have uncommon strength, and I have seen them carry weights that would have taxed the robusteet of our sailors. No less surprising is the smallness of their hands and feet, which, if a beauty is very disadvantageous to the men, who can carry only one or two objects in their hands at the same time. They have rough, lusterjess black hair, which they wear long and falling over face and shoulders. Some bind it with a leather strap, but most let it grow to such an extent that they look more like furies than human beings. The men have very little beard, and that little they pluck out, while neither men nor women have any hair an their bodies. They do not tattoo but use all kinds of paint, Two or three hues of color on the face and a few necklaces of shells or birds bodes is the usual dress of a Fuegian. For protection against the terrible hurricanes, the snow that fell during the ten months of the year, and torrential rains that daily visit this miserable archipelago the Fuegian only wears a small mu ntie of seal or guanco skin over his shoulders. The wigwams are only made of intertwined branches fixed in some sheltered spot, but they are too weak to keep out snow or rain. These wigwams are used by the Fuegians who dwell near the few residents of Uscumbia or round the mission; the other natives scarcely ever remain more than one or two days in the same place; they lead a vagrant life in their small canoes among the complicated canals of this broken up country, fishing and hunting for their subsistence, of which the sea furnishes the larger part The women are looked upon as slaves and the greater part of the work falls to their share. I have often seen the men sitting quietry round a good fire, while the poor women were exposed in fragile skiffs to the snow, wind and waves, fishing for their idle and hungry husbands. The greater the number of slaves a man has the easier it is for him to find a living, hence the practice of polygamy, which is so rooted among the Fuegians that, in spite of the efforts of the missionaries, it is no rare thing to see a convert suddenly break through restraint and add two or more wives to the one allowed him by his new religion. But, though a Fuegian may marry as many wives as he pleases, he seldom takes more than four, and even with that small number it is difficult to preserve domestic peace. The wig warn is the scene of daily battles and sometimes the prettiest wives pays with her life the preference of her husband. The Fuegian women are very prolific. Seven or eight is the average number of children, but often a still young woman will have ten or twelve. The child, eu, however,seldom all survive their parents, for the mortality between two and ten years of age is extraordinary. The variable and rigid climate, the want of nourishment, the terrible heats and the bad treatment by the parents are the chief causes of the death of these miserable infanta; yet unarmed against the frightful struggle for existence.

History of Russian Coronation. The London Echo. The first Russian Czar who introduced the ceremony of coronation into Russia was the mighty John lIL or Ivan 111. <1462-1505), the contemporary of our Edward IV., Richard lIL and Henry VII. He married Sophia, the niece of the very last Imperial orthodox Emperor of Constantinople, and by this marriage claim cd a sort of succession to the first Christian Csesar. It was in his region, when the Turk, became master of the ancient capital of Eastern Christendom, that the of Western Europe seem first to

have become aware of the rise of the powerful new Christian monarchy in Eastern Europe, and began to send Embassadors to Moscow. Ivan did not crown himself, but in 1498 solemnly invested his grandson, Demetrius, with the Imperial Christian diadem and robe, which had been brought from Constantinople and had been worn by the Caesars of Eastern Empire. The ceremony of unctiow at the coronation was afterward introduced by Ivan IV., or “The Terrible,” and has since remained as it had all along been in Western Europe, an inseparable adjunct of the coronation. Ivan IV. was the first Czar who received the Eucharist at his coronation. Michael Theodrovitsch insisted upon being anointed, not only on his forehead and over his ips, but on his beard also, after the Bib-, lical precedent In earlier times the clergy of the Russian Church played a greater part than they do at present in the coronation ceremony. As it was held almost indispencible alike in England, France and Germany that the National Primates, the Archbishops of Canturbury, Rneims and Mainz, should “consecrate” the national monarch to his office, so it was in Russia with the Patriarch of Moscow. The Prelate was supposed to be the peculiar steward and minister of the sacrimental right of coronation. He gave the divine confirmation and unction to the presumed free choice of the people. The voice of the people was thus supposed to become the voice of God Tap notion of a divine right inherent in the head of a reigning family was a comparitively late conception in Russia, as well as in the West This appears, however, to be now the predominant notion of the Russian Czars and the Prussian Kiugs. The present German Emperor took the crown from the altar and placed it upon his own head. Similarly in Russia the representatives of the Church now play quite a subordinate part in the coronation of the Czars, being little more than ministering servants and assisting spectators. Formerly the Muscovite Patriarch stood in much the same relation to the Muscovite Monarch as the Roman Pope stood to the Roman Emperors throughout the Middle Ages. The thrones of the Czar and the Patriarch stood upon an equal level, and the Russian secular ecclessiastical chieftains repl resented the ancient theory of the “Two Swords.”

Bovine Eccentricities. Thomas Collins, ot Bakersville, N. J., has a calf that, when but six months old, weighed 404 pounds, measured five feet six inches in the girth, and was four feet six inches high. ' Hawkinsville, Ga., has a cow 100 years old that still gives milk. A Hancock County (Ga.) farmer sold in six months $350 worth of butter, the product of eight common cows. As he passed a cow in the road Sheriff Mickell, of Lincoln County, Miss., said “Shoo!'* but she evidently thought he was High Sheriff, for she tossed him at least twenty feet ud in the air. Artie Van Winkle, a little boy, living near Belleville; Kan., while leading a cow to pasture, put the rope around his neck and kept his hands in his pockets. The cow suddenly threw her head back, and broke the boy’s neck. A young man of Dooly County, Ga, jumped over a cow-pen where a nice young woman was milking a cow. The lad kissed the lass, the cow kicked the milk-pail, the milk-pail struck the lover, and the lover has ceased his visits. A Gridley (CaL) farmer hunts geese with a cow. She walks to where a flock of geese have settled down on the grain. Her owner walks along by her off side, and when near enough the cow lies down, and he shoots into the flock. A railroad train in Virginia ran into a cbw and cut the animal in two, the forequarters falling on one side of the railroad track and the hind-quarters on the other side. The cow was with calf at the time, and the calf was left on the outside of the railroad alive. The owner of the cow raised the calf, which grew to be a cow, and was killed by the cars near the spot where her mother was killed in 85”.

No Dakota for Him. A land agent wanted a Kentucky farmer to immigrate to Dakota, as he was not making his living in the old Commonwealth. “What inducements do you offer?” asked the farmer. "We have the richest lands, the finest wheat the best water, the fattest stock, and the biggest farms in the world.” “What?” “They |.low a farrow five miles long.” That ends it, stranger. Don’t talk Dakota to me! It’s all I can do to plow one of these little fifty-yard furrows here in Kaintucky, and it it was five miles long I never would get to the end of it Gee, whoa, buck, git up there!” and he started across his patch, leaving the agent sitting on the fence. A three-year-old boy of Shelbyville has dissolved partnership with a twenty-three foot tape-worm.

Curious, Useful and Scientific. From obeerations made in the Zooidgio al Gardens, London, it seems probable that the extreme lease gs life of the hippotamus is thirty years. This curious story occurs in Lee Mondes of December 16. A man who was very close to a tree struck by lighting asserts that he was saved by crouching on the ground and covering himself with a woolen umbrella. He was enfolded in flames and completely electrified but received no hurt

A novel rail way-wagon has been invented and patented in Europe.. It is an amphibious sort of a thing. When it ceases to run on rails on land it is capable of swimming on the water by means of pontons attached to both sides. It is provided with a bow and stem piece before being set afloat, and on the latter the motor is placed. Such a means of conveyance might be very useful in certain places. Additional tests made by M. Balce seem to prove that low temperature has but little to do with the fracture of railroad tires. Other things being equal, the tires are as strong, he says, in severe frost as when the temperature is normal; but low temperature increases, of course, the rigidity of the road and its inequalities and so renders the shock received by the tires very violent, producing at times disasters to changes in the metal. Mention was made in the Popular Science Monthly some time since of an immense Japanese spider-crab in the cabinet of Rutgers College, N. J., which measures eleven feet six inches when extended. It is the Macrocheira Camperi. It was for many years the largest specimen known in any collection. Since then one ten feet long was taken to Edinburg. A specimen is now advertised for sale in London which measure over fifteen feet in length. The Lancet says “it is high time that attention were directed to the subject of narcotics generally, and the use of choral and bromide'of potassium in particular. Incalculable injury is being done, and publie opinion is being grievous’y misled by the tolerance given to the use of ‘sleeping draughts, falsely so-called. In regard to this matter and that of the reckless use of hypodermic injections of moi ph if the profession should seek to form a deliberate judgment, and gravelv deliver itself. At the present moment we are under a heavy responsibility, which it is idle todeny a id vain to disown.'

Geological examination of the delta o the Mississioi shows that for a distance of about 300 miles there are bnried forests of large trees, one over the other, with inter spaces of sand. Ten distinct forest growths, of this description have been observed, which it is believed must have succeeded each other, Of these trees, known as the bald cypress, some have been found over 25 feet in diameter, and one contained 5,700 rings; in some instances, too huge trees have grown over the stumps of others equally large. From these facts geologists have assumed the antiquity of each forest growth at 10,000 years or 100,000 or all. The total eclipse on the 6th of May next will last six -minutes, and no longer; one will probably occur within the next hundred years. It will be partially visible in many places, but few will see it in its entirety, as its path lies almost entirely through the ocean, touching land nowhere but at a little island in the South Pacific called Caroline Island, which is out gs the track of any established commerce or travel. The French Goverment has determined to send and expedition to that island, and a grand international gathering of astronomers will meet there to take part in the scientific quest.

Sheep Raiseing in Nebraska. A correspondent of the Country Gentleman writes: Colonel J. H. Roe, at Kearney 200 miles west of the Missouri River, has 2,250 acres fenced with wire for a sheep pasture. On this i$ a well-finished one aid half story frame house for the men in charge; a barn 40x80 feet, the upper part having storage for 225 tons of .» ay and fodder; five corials; a windmill which pumps the water and grinds the grain; sheds with troughs for feeding; corn cribs, and all the conveniences tor the proper handling of sheep. Of 2,100 high -bred Oregon Merinos, 1,500 are breeding ewes, and the rams (one to 100 ewee) are of the very best Vermont stock. In raising cattle, sheep or hogs, there is a large profit in growing animals for breeding, for which there is always a demand. Mr. Roe has sold this year forty yearling rams of his own raising at sls to S3O each. His ewee last spring sheared six pounds, worth twenty -eight cents. The lamb in the fall is worth $2, and- when kept till spring, gives a fleece, and is then worth $3. In connection with the sheep pasture he has 640 acres of the best farming lands, on which he will raise all the winter feed necessary for 8,000 sheep, which number he considers the capacitvg of his ranch. 100 acres of oom in 1882, which was grown at a cost of $3 per acre, yielded 3,500 bushels, and fifteen acres of oats 600 bushe’s Twenty-seven acres of sweet oom were planted in hills eighteen inches apart and cut and cured in August for winter feed.

which sheep eat readily. During the winter, besides the abundant native pasture, the sheep win be fed plenty of hay, which costs only the cutting, with corn fodder, and after January some corn, with ground corn and oats to lambs and old sheep. Mr. Roe has had a profitable experience with sheep pnd gives this advice to a man beginning with small capital: \ “Go back from the railroad twenty miles, and take a homestead and 'timber claim, buying in connection a section of railroad land, which would make 640 acres, the whole costing $836.600 ewes, costing for the best $3 pe: head, would make a good start. The first shewing with wool at twenty-fl ve cents, would give S6OO, and the 450 lambs (an increase of 75 cent) at $2 each would be S9OO more a total of sl.800 for the first year, with 1,050 sheep to commence the second. A sod house, and sheds of sod walls covered with poles and prairie hay, will be all the buildings needed. One man will t ike care of a thousand sheep. Then follows grain growing or feeding. Hay is abundant, no expensive machinery is needed, and it is plain that a man with common diligence can soon acquire. The only disease known in this country is scab, introduced by sheep driven from abroad, and the best time to cure it without any danger of return is just after shearing, using sulphur and tobacco at a cost of three cents per head. Good ewes for a atari can be had from dealers who drive every year from Oregon to California. These are large Merinos of high grade, giving a heavy fleece of delaine wook and make the best of mutton.”

They Dou’t Affiliate. Texas Sittings. A colored manlwas busily engaged in sawing wood for 001. Powis, when the latter observed that the bosom of the man and brother, so to speak, was adorned by an Odd-Fellow’s breastpin. “Do the white Odd-Fellows and the colored Odd-Fellows in Austin affiliate?” asked OoL Powis. “Don’t fl I lyate wuf a cues, but they helps each odder out.” “Well, that’s the same thing, ain’t it.” “No, sir: hit’s not the same ding.” “What’s the difference?” The colored man stopped sawing wood and made the following explanation: “Last week when dat norther was afreezin’ der marrow in yer bones, I went inter der saloon of a white man what tote dis very same emblem. I was in distress, rale distress, as I hadn’t had a dram dat mornin*, so I gib him de signal of distress.”

“Did he respond?” • “He didn’t gib de proper response. De proper response would hab bin to hab rubbed his lef ear with his right hand, and to hab sot out de bottle.” “Then he did not respond correctly?” “No, sir; he made a motion at de doah wid one hand and reached under de bar wid the odder. I made de Odd-Fellows* signal of distress once mo ah, and den sumfin hard hit me on de head and knocked me clear out inter de street. It was de bung-starter what dat white brother Odd-Fellow had frew at me in response to de distress signal.” “Then the white Odd-Feilows and the colored Odd-Fellows do not affiliate?" “Jess what I toled yer. Dey don’t fillyate, but dey helps each odder out. I was helped out inter de street wid de bung starter, but fiilyate means to set out de whisky.”

Bob Ford Wants an Apology. Philadelphia special in Cincinnati News: The Ford brothers, who brought the career of Jesse James, the outlaw, to a sudden close, expect to make a professional visit to this city two weeks hence. The fact of their coming fills the mind of Manager Kelly, of the National Theater, with apprehension. Some days ago the agent of the Ford brothers wrote to Mr. Kelly asking if he could give the combination bearing their name a week’s engagement at the National. Mr. Kelly, in reply, wrote on a postal card in effect that there, was no opening this year for the company, “ but in July, 1982.” he would be happy to let the brothers display themselves in his house. Subsequently the managers of the Grand Central closed an engagement with the slayers of Jeese James, and are expected here in two weeks. Robert Ford sent a note to Mr. Kelly, saying that he would call at the business office of the National Theater on his arrival, and demand an apology for the reflection contained in the postal card. The letter, to Mr. Kelly’s mind, breathes a spirit of revenge, and his friends have advised him to make a visit to some mountain retreat for his health while Ford stops in the city. Mr. Kelly, however, has decided to stay and receive his sanguinary guests.

A New Grain Pest The farmers near Castroville, Cal.,have discovered a gray and blue bug which is destroying a large acreage of grain. The bug eats the leaves and kills the stalks Barley appears to be worked on more than the wheat The first sheriff of Clinton county Solomon Young, died last Saturday.

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The U. 8. use 75,000,000 pounds of tea* year. The N. Y. canals will not be opened before May 10. Asia Minor has olive trees 1,200 years old, in full bearing. A Cincinnati firm is making a SIO,OOO bar for a Texas saloon. Richmond, by a police census, has a population of 70,684; in 1880 it had 63,600. N. Y. city has just one regiment of ragpickers. The monks and nuns in Italy number nearly 32,000. Many Catholic priests in Italy receive only SBO a year. There are over 900 blind persons ’in the state of Arkansas. Our national flour export has more than trebled in ten years. The best butter brings eighty cents a pound in N. Y. and Philadelphia. . Solom Chase, of Maine, has suspended publication ot his paper, Them Steers. The telegraph cannot sing, but it can beat time. Not a single house in Manila escaped damage from the recent typhoon. A Clevelander complains of milk that is “thin waisted and gander shanked.” The Castleton, N. Y., concern which marks our postal cards turns out 1,250,000 a day, Mr. William Black is supposed to be making the largest income of any English novelist living. Pennsylvania contains 46,000 square miles; England, 50,992; Ireland, 82,582, and Scotland 30,463. Mr. Welsh, of Flushing, L. L, gets three months of hard labor for kissing a lady on the street Francis Murphy, the temperance man, had suohsuoessat Carlisle, England that 1,000 persons were persuaded to join his Blue Ribbon society. Italian oxties find it cheaper to run art galleries and suoh things, to attract strangers who will give alms to beggars, than to support the beggars|in poorhouses. Register Bruce, next to Frederick Douglass, about the most noted representative of his race, was refused a seat in a white barber’s chair in Washington the other day. A N. Y. Qentral railroad engineer will, not take a train cut on any day that a white cat has run across his path. He has tried it several times and has always met with accidents.

A somnambulistic girl got out of bed at Prescott, Minn., and walked across half a mile of ice and snow to the railroad station, clad in her night clothes only, and was waiting for a train when awakened. Ben. Perly Poore says that he has found proof, in the Congressional library, that Jefferson was not inaugurated with the democratic simplicity that has been supposed. but with cannons firing and whatever display was possible. Domestic government.—Working joiner (button holed on his way home by political plumber): “Look ’ere! Come along and my missus will give us a cup o’ tea, and you’ll see the speaker an’ the opposition an* ’ome rule all in one!” Out of a population of 25,000,000 England sends only 5,000 students to her two great universities. Scotland, with a population of 4,000,000, hud 6,500 university students, and German?, with a population of 43,000,000, has 22,500, students in her various universities. The inscription “Ysnat" on a jar in a Philadelphia Indian doctor's shop, puzzled a reporter until he that it was “Tansy’’spelled backward. With this clue he read other names of mysterious medicines with a clearer understanding than before. West Indians have a curious test for telling whether a persorf has negro blood in his veins. It is called toe nose test. The negro has no division in the gristle of the oartiligenous portion of his nose, such as all of pure white blood can feel at its tip with the end of the finger. This is the last thing to yield to the white accession. Any negro blood is marked with a nose the gristle of which is undivided, and the object of putting this paragraph in is to prove that no person will read it through without touching the finger to ths nose.

The Texas Cattle Drive.

A gentleman largely interested in cattle who has just returned from an extensive trip among the ranches, says ninety-five herds of cattle, averaging 2,500 head each, will be driven out of the State this spring. The entire “drive” is estimated at 240,000 head against 850,000 last year. Most of these cattle will go to Dodge City, Kan., and Ogallala, Neb. Shipments by rail are saidtobeoverestimated, and will not probably exceed 50,000. Large herds of horses are also moving toward the markets. The importation of 20,000 cattle, reported from Brownville, Tex., a day or two ago, are from the States of New I ■eon, Mexico. 16,000 head of them are already gathered, to be driven across the Rio Grande in a few days. They were purchased by Mr. Ford, a prominent stock man of Colorado, and are intended to stock his ranches in that State. The price paid watfsl2 per head.