Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1884 — The Weather. [ARTICLE]

The Weather.

f This storm deals with the trains as Slugger Sullivan does with his opponents, knocks them all out of lime*- | If any fellow asks if this is cold enough for you? break off his har, dest frozen ear and knock iiiifl down with it. The list of improvements in Rensselaer for 1883, shows a very gratifying progress for the period. Few of our neighboring towns have done as well, or “anywheres near it.” Of course we will all continue -to write it 1883, pretty regularly for a few weeks yet, bui that will not a-ter the fact that we have fn for a new year,—and a leap year at that. Hooray boys! The Peoples Railway Company of America, if we may judge from a flamiug advertisement which appears in the Chicago Inter-Oceap, - is not dead by any manner of means but is selling shares at a rapid rate. The concern is certainly taking in lots ot money, and who knows but wliat they may yet girdle the earth with narrow gauge railroad tracks. If the people who get up the Christmas trees, Ac., for the Sunday schools, of Rensselaer wish to prevent that class of entertainments from falling into gutter and deserved disrepute, they must adopt strict means to. prevent the placing of so-called “sells” upon the trees. This base and cowardly practice was indulged in to a f hameful extent, this year in Rensselaer, and a number of refined and sensitive persona were grossly insulted thereby. If the Sunday school people are- not willing to take the trouble necessary to prevent such practices as this, they should discontinue the gift distribution feature of their Christmas entertainments, entirely, hereafter.' A certain publishing house in Indinapolis has gotten up a might v swrewd scheme for securing a vast amount of advertising for a very little money. They offer three paltry prizes, aggregating in value perhaps thirty or thirty-five dollars, to be given to the three best scholars in the state, among the graduates of the district schools for the coming year. The firm makes the offer through the ccHMvttliTi sopftiantcudo nts. -.mill, the superintendents “boom them t hrough the county papers, and ■ “thus all things work together for ~o ocp ’__for the publishing house. It is a very neat little stroke_of business upon the part of the persons making the oiler, but v\ e are compelled to marvel greatly that our wide- awake county superintendent did not “catch on ’ to their little game.

We do not suppose that we can give our Jasper county readers any new points on the weather, because the most of them are awake fully ns early in the morning, and many t of them a good deal later at night than we are; but for the information of non-resident subscribers, wo can sav that iu this locality 1883 ended with si.\ days of warm, Moppj weather, which wore out the sleighing: while If&M lias flatted in with iug and snowing, and drifting and f itting. A tremendous amount of ruow has fallen, but has drifted so badly that sleighii g will be no good. The weather-eleared, Weda b ‘ tttr