Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1885 — The Pope’s Seals. [ARTICLE]

The Pope’s Seals.

The Pope has two kinds of seals, the first -used In apostolical briefs, private letters, etc., called the fisherman’s ring. This is a very large ring, on which is represented St. Peter drawing his net full of fishes. The other is used in brills, representing St. Peter’s head on the right and that of St. Paul on the left, with a cross between the two. On the reverse are sometimes the Pope’s name and arms. j The impressions of the first seal are taken in red wax, but those of the second always in lead.

Bishop Spaulding saw a most pronounced case of dandy drag itself inertly past. The fellow had all the symptoms of acute idiocy so markedly visible that there was no mistaking the social disease. Anglomania, that had pitifully altered him from the healthy, vigorous, sensible young fellow that he might otherwise have been. “Well, here’s a thought for comfort,” the Bishop is quoted as saying. “I happen to know who he is. His family are wealthy and very fashionable. He has been brought to think that work is not for him to think of, and that his life is destined to be perfectly idle. In that view, don't you comprehend, the best course for him to pursue is the One that is most harmless, and what could have less actual viciousness in it than the •areer of an assiduous fop? Just think of it. He might be a gambler, a brawler, a sensualist; or lie might even take to burglary, arson, murderlj Qh, yes, if a young man is bound to be nothing useful, then by all means encourage him to be an innocuous dandy.”

In every department •of knowledge noble men and women are bearing aloft the torch of science to make light the dark places of earth for the benefit of man, but it will still be a long while before human wisdom, can make out why a change of weather is bad for corns. '' , An Ohio man claims to have a wife who never asks him for money. He neglects to say whether the old lady has been speechless from birth or whether she simply holds him down and goes through his wallet without*. wasting breath. -■ Frank Jambs is now clerking in a Nevada grocery. The fellow who comes in two or tkrfee times a day and helps himselt to cheese had better look a leedle out. The fashions in home decorations have changed somewhat during the past year, hut black eyes are still worn to some extent Dy people who split their own kindlings.