Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1886 — Typhoons. [ARTICLE]

Typhoons.

One of the strangest names for a pnper is the Sod House. The Sod House is published weekly at Cimerron, Kansas. ■/ So rr seems that this continent cannot boast the richest man in all the world. A European journal makes the statement that Prince Paul Esterhasv, with his boundless estates, Transylvanian forests and other sources of wealth, would probably go beyond the late Mr. Vanderbilt by a trifle of twenty or thirty million dollars or so. William Ewart Gladstone is three years older than M. Grevy and one year older than the Pope, and he is stronger and far more active than either. Bismarck issix years younger than the Englishman, who is eleven years younger than the Kaiser, and carries ten less years than Von Moltke. Tough old men, all of them. * The total electorial vote of Great Britain under the new law, at the last election, was 4,724,530. Of these only 3,179,510 persons voted, leaving 1,545,020, or about one-third of the whole, who refused or neglected to avail themselves of the extension of the franchise. In Ireland the total number of qualified voters was 489,694, of whom 365,164 voted. ' Senator Stanford is named as paying his Congressional salary over to one of his Private Secretaries. He has two of them—one being a correspondent of a San Francisco paper, who, by securing the role of Private Secretary, is enabled to go to the Senate floor and gather news. Senator John P. Jones also transferred to his first Private Secretary the salary of his Senatorship. The people of Atlanta have sunk $26,000 in digging an artesian well 2,000 feet deep. No stream having been found that would come to the surface, Prof. White, of the State University, was called in, and he decided that as Atlanta stood on granite rock—the bedrock of the continent—tho only way to an artesian well would be to start on the surface and bore up into the atmosphere. ¥

Onk of the officers of the British force in Burmah concludes that stomachache is a widely prevalent malady in that region. At Koonah he found an idol which effects miraculous cure when a sufferer plasters a flake of gold leaf upon the part corresponding to the seat of his own disorder; and the abdomen had been caused to protrude in a most extraordinary degree by the plastered offerings of health-seekers. Senator Evarts’ library in his house in New York is full of costly books, engravings, pictures, and works of art. He had a visit there some time ago from one of his law-clients, who had always supposed the Senator to be not any too luxuriously supplied with this world’s goods. He looked the room over with a critical eye and remarked that he did not see how the Senator could afford so many fine and costly things. The Senator mentioned the remark to a lawyerfriend a day or two after,'(yard, with tbo dry comment: “He will know when I send him my bill.” It is said that the paralysis of the actor, T. W. Keene was caused by excessive smoking. He is not the first member of the profession who has succumbed to the effects of the weed. Thomas Placide, the famous commedian, died of a cancer in his lip, which was caused by pipe-smoking, and J. A. Zimmerman, who was treasurer of Niblo’s Garden, during the run of the famous “Black Crook,” died from paralysis and' softening of the brain, superinduced by smoking cigars. De Vivo, the operatic manager, who is an inveterate smoker, has had two or three warnings, in the form of severe illness, that he must abandon the weed. One of the deepest mourners at the bier of Alfonso was Ugly, the lamented monarch’s pet Skye terrier. “The poor animal,” says a London Daily News writer, “howled to be allowed- to go with him to El Pardo, but was not allowed. She got there, notwithstanding, but how, nobody knows. When the King was dead she -was found lying under his bed in a state of the deepest depression. Ugly certainly knew that she had lost her royal master. Ever since that loss she has been altogether off her feed, and to prevent her dying from inanition milk and soup are to be forced down her throat. The Queen was greatly distressed at having to allow the poor little dog to be turned out of the piortuary chamber when the religious ceremonies were taking place." A curious military point arose at the < birth of the Prince of Wales. It had been the custom for the officer on guard at St. James’ Palace to be promoted to a majority when a royal child was bom. The guard was relieved at 10:45. At that hour the new guard marched into the palace yard* and three minutes later the child was bom. The .question arose which officer was entitled to promotion. The officer of the fresh guard claimed it because the relief marched

in before the birth and’ the keys were delivered over to him; but the other officer claimed it because the sentries had not been changed wher}_ the child was actually born. His men were still on guard, and he disputed the fact St the delivery of the keys, arguing that in all probability this had not occured at the moment of the birth. Although there was no precedent, the old guard got it. 1 Almost everybody has heard of the Scriptural phrase, “pure religion and undefiled before God," and now Mr. Beecher has got 4he news. He thus explains how it happened; “It was two weeks ago that I was explaining that the idea of righteousness ran through the Scriptures rather than that of religion, and in the dash of the moment said that I did not think the word religion was found in the Bible. I had notjgot out of the church that Sunday before a good brother called my attention to the fact that the word was to be found in James. Now I haven’t time to read the somewhat less than a million letters that have come to me on the sub ject. At first they came in scores from around New York, and then the circle extended, and now they pourin from lowa. Soon, I presume, they will come from California. I had no idea so many persons read the Bible. It occurs five times.”

“It is curious to look over the educational records as given by the Congressmen,” says the Washington correspondent of the Cleveland Lender. “Bragg states that he was educated a lawyer; Smalls of South Carolina was self-edu-cated; and Houk of Tennessee educated himself while working at the cabinetmaker trade, and by reading by firelight at night. Judge Kelley got his education as a printer and proofreader, and Gen. Grosvenor was trained in a country schoolliouse. Pulitzer had a private tutor; Hepburn of lowa was educated in the common schools and printing 6fßce; Oates was self-edcated and Taulbee and Boutelle had private schools. , One hundred and sixty-four of the members of the present House have had collegiate or academic educations, and eighty put themselves down as having been trained at common schools. The majority of collegiatebred men come from small country colleges, academies, and seminaries; and many of* them State that they have graduated at some noted Taw-school, such as Harvard, Ann Arbor, or New York. Havard has seven college graduates, Princeton four, the University of Virginia four, Bowdion two, Dartmouth four, Union three, Yale two, Amherst two, Brown two, Ann Arbor five, Jefferson two, Franklin two, and numerous other colleges one.” • - -V? T Mr. Eric S. Bruce ■ recently delivered a lecture in London on “Health and the Electric Light. ” The lecturer stated that the requirements of an artificial light, in order to make it conducive to health, were that it should not be a source of impurity to the atmosphere; it should heat the atmosphere as little as possible; it should be a brilliant bright light, and should be perfectly steady, cleanly, and in no way a danger. Most of those requirements, however, were not met by the forms of artificial light in use; indeed, aHTights which were dependent on combustion at the burner were sources of impurity to the,at*fiosphere and a danger to the public. The electric incandescent lamp, he pointed out, was the only light where they had perfect incandescence without appreciable combustion in the lamp. It possessed all the health requirements of an artificial light’ such as an inappreciable heat, purity and brilliancy of color, steadiness of light, and immunity from danger of fire. The lecturer, having shown by experiments the advantages of electric lighting over other illuminants, concluded by tracing the present depression in the electric market to the experimental nature of the earlier work, the predjudices of the public and certain drawbacks of the present Electric Lighting act. At the conclusion of the lecture the Chairman in moving a vote of thanks to Mr. Eric Bruce, said the electric light possessed almost every advantage that was required in an artificial light, and in his opinion it was destined to be the light of the

These are most common during August and September, but they are likely to occur at any other time during the year. The first signs, according to the government astronomers Of Hong-kong, are -feathery clouds in the sky of the cirrus type,, looking like fine tufts of white wool, and which travel from east to north. These appearances are accompanied by a slight rise of the barometer; clear weather, heat, and light winds. The barometer then begins to fall; the heat becomes oppressive; there is a swell on the sea, and-the sky assumes a threatening As the storm approaches these effect* "be come„more and more marked, while the wind gradually increases in force. Near the. center of the storrtl the wind blows with such violence that no canvas can hold out against it, and the rain pours down in torrents. 1 i Still nearer the center, the sea is lashed into such fury that this is the most dangerous position for ships. ' Leabn to bear prosperity with an humble spirit;, so that .if adversity befall thee thou wilt have ho need to Liang'thy head. * • t Bad taen excuse their faults; good men will leaveithem.- -Ben Jonson.