Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1884 — Cattle Diseases. [ARTICLE]

Cattle Diseases.

The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury has transmitted to Congress the report of the Cattle commission, consisting of James Law, E. F. Thayer, and J. H. Sanders. The commission recommend that the National Government prevent shipment northward, out of the area infected with Texas fever, all cattle whatsoever, excepting from the beginning of November to the beginning of March. ”"f A spaniel belonging to William H- Baylies, of Providence, saw a horse that had broken loose from a hitebing-post fall lata Lobin's Pond. The horse was too bewildered to find ltß vsyout. The spaniel plunged hr, swam to the horse, seized the bridle with his teeth, and gradually pulled the horse around and guided him to the shore. - -- - Mr. Alonzo Hayes, of Kittery, Me., forgot to sprinkle meal on his horse’s noon-day fodder. Presently he heard'a great noise in the stable, and found the horse with the pail of meal in bis mouth, lust lifting it into the manger. - -- ■ '■ —■— ----- Great things are made from iron, but tin often makes grater. : F = v / .

"William and Mary college, ol Virginia, has closed its doors, having but one student at the beginning of this School year. Next to Harvard, this was the oldest college in America, having been founded in 1603,.and was the only one that received ft royal charter. Among the most eminent i uen educated j in its halls,were Washington, Marshal, I&and«|p t wßy WWndge IRMBfI Gen. Scott. Peck's Sun: Gould has jnst finished a magnificent tomb for his last resting place, and now Vanderbilt proposes to put up ft similar institution to eos ($50,OOff. 14 woum' take an awful blast on Gabriel’s bugle on resurrection day .to crack such heavy masonry ? as these tombs will be. It won’t <l6 to put on a combination look as in the excitemept of that day the combination might be lost. Here is a chance for the man with a first class time lock set to open the door at the first toot Gen. Simon Cameron tells the following story: “When Mr. Polk was inaugurated Mr. Buchanan came tp me and said: ‘Cameron, Mr. Polk has tendered me the position of Secretary of State in hi 3 Cabinet; what would you do about it?’ ‘Why do you ask me? Ton have already made up your mind to accept it.’ ‘Then who will succeed me as Senator ?’ asked Mr, Buchanan‘l think Simon Cameron will,’ was my reply. Mr. Buchanan walked away, and was never after my friend, although we never quarreled. I have always thought he had a candidate of his own.” E. P. Weston, tho pedestrian, is in the habit, by his own account, of giving wholesome advice to tlie British aristocracy about their diet. He occasionally dines at the tables of the great, and makes comments on tlie viands somewhat in this style: A lady.who sat next to him, and to whom he was a perfect stranger, expressed a desire for beef well done. “Excuse me Miss, but you’ll get no more nourishment out of that than out of chips and shavings.” Mr. Weston is not without hopes that he will eventually reform the dinners Of the peerage, and persuade “our old nobility that half-cooked meat and a walk of 500 miles in 10 dayes make the summit of human bliss. 1 Dwight M. Sabin, Senator from Minnesota, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, is, like his predecessor, a Connecticut man. Ten or twelve years ago he went from Connecticut to Minnesota a comparatively poor young man. His mother had a moderate living, but he had next to nothing, But he was bright, well educated and persevering. He was soon manufacturing agricultural implements in a snail way. He made spme improvements in those he manufactured. He is now manufacturing them on a large scale, and at the same time is interested in other manufacturing establishments and in railways. He is only about 40, yet he is rich. Thebe is talk of a reduction in the fancy prices charged by first-class hotels in New York city. It is said that for the past twelve months the moneyed classes have either had less money to spend, or have felt less like spending what they possess, than at any time jin co the panio of 1873. The Tribune says: “Failures in many of the great trkdes are frequentf-Ab® prices of-pres visions have fallen and are falling, the value of real estate, if not decreasing, is at any rate stationary, salaries are lower than they have been for years in every department, apartment houses and elaborate fiats are taking to themselves a majority of former resident hotel guests, and it seems as if a fall in hotel rates was only a question of time.” When Senator Beck visited his old home in Scotland in 1875, while strolling through the fields he duet an old schoolmate. “You don’t remember me, Donald?” he said to him. “No,” said !>onald, “I don’t know your face. But caught a six-pound salmoD to-day in the frith, and whenever I have done that before something has happened. I don’t know you by sight, but you’re either John McPherson, who left us thirty years ago, or you’re Jim Beck. Now, which is it?” “Sure enough/’ cried tho senator,“its Jim Beck.” “Wed, Jimmie, they tell me that the Americans are going to elevate you to the House of Peers. Is it so? Come along home then and we’ll eat the fish. An American lord is good enough for a Scotch salmon.” A nttmbee of members of the present House have received large fortunes with their wives. Among these are Hitt, of Illinois; Abram S, Hewitt, of New York, whose wife was a daughter of the late Peter Cooper; Wadsworth, also of Few York, whose wife is a daughter of “Bill” Travers, the great stock specula-

tor; Bayne, of Pennsylvania; Stewart, of Htoonak, of New however, has a fortune independent of his wife. TWp' of the Massachusetts members have large fortunes. These are Morse, wbb has an immense clotbing-houso in Boston, and Russell, of Lawrence, who has large manufacturing interests both in Massachusetts and Vermont. AVillihm Walter Phelps, of New Jersey, is pnII. IsM^com. i 1 I Speaking of decollete dresses at jthe opera ip Nfw York the «mrrespondjeii| of tliotliifflielphia Urcoiwavs: Mosfl of these Iwe necks wore plump and pretty, -im I Md Mee some siat w ere neither. There was one young woman wk<r satin a box near me, and ■#ho wore the lpwesfc-neck dress in tlie house. In fact, it was no dress at all; it was simply a lace shawl tied under her arms and around the waist, something in the style in which Italian peasant wompn wear their shawls, except that they wear tlieir3 over their shoulders, und tills young woman’s was under. Her favorite attitude was facing some one in the box, and when I first noticed her I thought that slie had a dress fastened in the back with large buttons, but what I had taken for buttons were bones. She was a very sprightly woman, and had a great many men in her box to talk with her, and as she talked she would shrug her shoulders in the most approved fashion. I couldn’t help blushing for those young men, for it seemdd impossible for her to give another shrug without lifting herself entirely out of her clothes. Chicago Tribune: One of the wires used to carry electricity for lighting Fifth avenue in New York broke the other day. The foot of a passing horse caught it; there was a purple flash and the horse fell dead on the pavement Another horse stepped on it and paid the Same tribute to it power. Had a human foot come in contact with it there would have been ope life less in the crowded street. When the Windsor Theatre in New York was on fire the other night several of the electric wires fell on the roof. Three firemen who stepped on them were stunned and lay unconscious for half an hour. If the current had been running at its full strength three brave fellows would have been sent out of the world. In a number of cases recently telegraph wires and those connecting the alarm boxes of the Fire and Police Departments have been set on fire by the powerful stream of electricity that has been poured into them from eleotrio light wires that have accidentally dropped on them. More than one roof has been set on fire from the same cause. Electrician Bogert, of the Western Union Telegraph, states that a wire charged with a high current necessary in electric lighting will set fire to any woodwork with which it comes in contact. Many fires of obscure origin he believes are without doubt attributable to this cause. The Assistant Engineer of the New York Fire Department declares that since their recent' experience the firemen of the city will deliberate long hereafter before, in order to get at a burning building, they will cut a wire that may the next minute strike them dead. If they have to choose between the loss of somebody else’s property and the unnecessary sacrifice of their own lives they will be very likely to prefer the life to the property. These facts put question ©! abolition of the wires and poles from the streets of our cities out of the region of controversy. The presence of the electric light wires threatens life; that of telegraph wires is a standing menace to property. They must all go. The suggestion of a prominent electrician that the large cities which are being nndermind by the excavation for gas pipes, steamheating pipes, apd the experiments of the electrical conduit companies should construct ample ducts through the streets which should accommodate all of these underground works is perhaps as good a plan as any. Bat whether this or some other is the plan that will be best, one thing ft clear: the wires must go.