Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1885 — It Wouldn’t Look Well. [ARTICLE]

It Wouldn’t Look Well.

Children of school age most be re* markably scarce in some sections of New Hampshire, judging from the following, taken from a Boston paper: “In Warner there is one school district that contains but ono pupil, four districts have but two pupils each, and two have only six between them.” The Ameer of Afghanistan has been obliged to bear a bad toothache without relief for reasons of State. * Abdul Eahman asked a British dentist in Upper India to come to Kabool and treat the objectionable tooth, but the Foreign Office actually forbade the dentist to take the journey, according "to the Times of India. A New York man has invented a clock which is intended to be attached to street gas lamps. Twenty thousand of these clocks are to be put on trial in New York City. They have four faces of ground glass, and the hands are worked through hollow tubs that meet in the center of the lamp. The whole system is to be regulated at one central station.

Patriotism rims as high among the Berlin cabbies as with the Parisian Jehu who declined to take a fare from Viclor Hugo. Lately Marshal von Moltke drove home from the Reichstag in a passing carriage and on reaching the house the cabman positively refused to be paid his due, declaring that the honor of driving so great a man was sufficient reward. In the Island of Goa, near Bombay, theie is a singular vegetable called the “sorrowful tree,” because it only flourishes in the night. At sunset no flowers are to be seen, and yet after half an hour it is full of them. They yield a sweet smell, but the sun no sooner begins to shine upon them than some of them fall off and others close up; and thus it continues flowering in the night during the* whole year. Qu’ Appelle, so often mentioned in the dispatches in connection with the Riel insurrection owes its name to the following incident t A Metis, paddling his canoe down the river in the beautiful valley in which Qu’ Appelle is situated,«hcard the echo of his paddles reverberating among the surrounding hills, and supposed it to be the voice of some one calling him. “Qui appelle?” (who calls) he exclaimed. This question, contracted into Qu’ Appelle, gave the place its name. Ar a New York fire Officer Coogan valiantly dashed up-stairs, and seeing a little golden-haired form in one of the rooms, quickly wrapped a quilt about it, and said soothingly: “Don’t .be scared, dear; I’ll take care of you.” Then he made his way back to the street, and heard little Emily Pebau exclaim joyfully: “Othat good policeman has saved my big wax doll!” Coogan took a look at the golden-haired form, resigned it to its owner, and hurried to the station-house to file an application for a night off.

Over the mantelpiece in the library of Frederick Holden, of Waahington, D. C., hangs an ancient portrait of his ancestor, Hon. Lewis Latham, falconer to his majesty Charles L Lewis Latham was a cousin to that gallant Earl of Derby and King of Man who laid down his life fpr his king at Bolton on the Moor, and whose Countess Isabella distinguished herself by her defense of Latham hoase against the troops of CromwelL Lewis Latham’s daughter t came with her second husband, Jeremiah Clarke, to the colony of Rhode Island, and in that State many of her descendants still live.

Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, the projector of the Panama canal, is somewhat of a disciple of vegetarianism. He says that one pound of dry wheat is worth more than three pounds of wet beef. Scald a pound of flour and you have a gallon of mush, which could not be eaten in three days. It takes eight pounds of grain to make a pound of meat One acre of cereals in France will support five men, while it would take two acres to support one steer, and in the end one man would eat the steer. The latter animal De Lesseps declares to be an unnecessary tramp, and thinks it strange that our Southern States have thrown away barrels of cotton-seed oil while buying unhealthy pork and lard.

In the Press an Budget for 1885-*B6 the Salary of Prince Bismarck is given at 45,000 marks ($13,500); that of Count Hatzfeld, Foreign Secretary of State, at 50,000; of Herr von Boetticher, Minister of State, at 36,000 and apartments ; of Herr Schelling, Chief of the Department es Justice,ato 24,000; of Herr v<n Burg hart. Chief of the Florence Department, at 20,000 and apartments: of Herr Stephan, Postmaster General, 24,000 and apartmen's; of Gen. von Schellendorf, arid Gen. Caprivi, War Minister and Lord of the Admiralty respectively, at 36,000, though the former enjoys, in addition, apartments, fuel, and rations for eight horses. Field Marshal Count von Moitke has 30,000 mark's, with apartments and ration* ior six horses. The generals of

divisions all have 12,000 marks as pay and a mpplementary allowance of 10* 000, out of wqich they have to pay office and other expenses, but, on the other hand, they also receive free lodgings, fuel,' and rations for eight horses. Mrs. Tom Thumb, who recently took a second husband, is no longer the pretty and petite, doll-faced child she was a quarter of a century ago. Care and age have furrowed her brow, the crows have planted their feet by her eyelids, the bright red blood of youth has forsaken the veins; Nothing pleases her so much as to be followed by gaping crowds; nothing recalls so vividly the visions of other and happier days as the ohs and ahs of a paying multitude, and when, turning her back upon the ice-bound rocks of sterile New England, she sought the limited sheckles of metropolitan dime museums, she took so tremendous a professional tumble as to excite general amazement and almost justify the issue of a commission in lunacy. The season of the year has come when peripatetic swindlers are most active, and it is every man’s duty to be on his guard against the tricks of these fellows. It is not enough to remember old swindles, though many of them doubtless will be successfully employed this year. New tricks are constantly being devised, whereby the unwary are fleeced. The safest way to act is to trade only with such as are known to be reliable and to sign no papers whatever, or at least Without the minutest inspection both before and after signing. Better deal with men and firms known to be trustworthy. This advice applies with special force to farmers, who have not the same facilities for detecting swindles that those living in towns have.

A Berlin correspondent writes to a London paper: “It is not often that one hears of a student of the age of 74 taking a degree at a university. The ‘bemoostes Haupt’ is sometimes io be seen at German universities, but he is generally a man who has spent his best years in idleness. The Nestor of the Berlin students to whom I now refer has been studying at Berlin since 1881, and has just taken a degree as Doctor of Medicine. The Professors addressed him as ‘Worthy Colleague,’ the students as ‘Papakin.’ In 1833 he was matriculated at Berlin, and studied theology till 1837, and spent his time from then till 1881 as a missionary in South Africa. It has been his wish all his life to study medicine, but pecuniary difficulties stood in his way. Now that he has passed his examination, having worked With all the zeal of a young student, he is going to return to Africa, where he will practice medicine.” . I ... The new Congo State, which is hereafter to be administered under the auspices of the King of the Belgians, is about to commence business. He has settled $200,000 in perpetuity upon the State to provide for the expenses of the administration. The association has also made treaties with no less than 450 Chiefs, whom it has had to subsidize, but Chiefs come very low in that region, as the entire subsidy is only $20,250, equal to $45 per Chief. In consideration of the subsidy each Chief agrees not to interfere with the navigation of the river, if he has any disputes with his neighbors to submit them to arbitration, and to be hospitable to all travelers who have the association’s pass. The income of the new State is expected to come from export duties and the rents of lands leased to traders and others. As soon as a railroad is built this income, it is expected, will greatly increase. Meanwhile, if some of the reports which have recently come out are true, the King of the Belgians ought to go there and take up a permanent residence.

Mason Campbell, says a Washington letter, the oldest of the clerks, is 86 years old. He has the look of a patriarch. He is still a strong, well-pre-served man. He has a very large head, thickly covered with a white mane of hair, which shows no sign of falling out His color is fresh and good. The lower part of the face is buried in aa great white mustache and voluminous beard, which descends well down onto his breast He wjpars gold-bowed glasses close against his eyes, which are still clear and bright The old gentleman has very little to say to those about him. He is still able to do bis work Well. Whs i spoken to he has to shake himself together as if his mind was always absent, and as if he recalled it with difficulty. He was appointed in 1847, from West Virginia. He, however, was born and brought up in New Hampshire. He went into the department at a salary of $1,200. and after nearly forty years of faithful service has reached the pay of $1,400. Twelve hundred dollars at the time of his appointment was a very handsome salary. Living in Washington was cheap. This income was fully equal to $2,00) now.

A ChieagO ladyattendeda masquerade ball and insisted on wearing a black domino, much to the disgust of a gentleman who had invited her. The excuse she gave was: “Well, you see, Charlie, my husband died only a week ago, and it would not look well for me to appear at such a public place in anything but black, and yon know people will trik.’’— Carl PretzeT* Weekly.