Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1887 — Page 7

BOB BURDETTE.

P« Talk* of “The Fates and The Boy.” You know Pm not living where I do now? So, I moved away from my present abiding place and am qccnpying pie .sant apartments on the next btock. Yes, indeed. You see, "there was a boy at my former boarding house. He was a type of a, boy I most furiously dislike, and I seem to be the type of a mau he hates, for we declared war the first day we met He deployed his skirmishers as soon as he saw me, and I was waiting for him in the woods just over the top of the hill, thicker than liOir on a dog’s back. He was an impudent, loud-voiced, slangy cub, with a head of most luxuriant long bushy hair, that my fingers were always aching to get into. My room was on the first floor, and he used to* make faces in at my window. One day he thrust his head in, but I was laying for him, and as he opened his mouth to yell something offensive, I chucked it full of sawdust. That night he hung alive oat by the tail to my window shutter, and the vixen nearly scratched my eyes out before I could cut her down. It was Miss Giddigirl’s cat, too, and she believed I hung it there myself, and so did everybody else. Next day I maneuvered the boy In front of my window until, thinking I wasn’t looking, he fired a buckshot at me and I dodged and let it break a looking glass. His father thrashed him for it, and I was so pleased I paid for the mirror myself. Next day he bent a pin in my chair at the dinner table, and I nearly died rather than jump up and “holler.” He found out that it irritated me nearly, to madness to hear or see him, so he took to playing under mv window. I charged him out of that by emptying half a gallon of shaving water out of the window. He flanked me by moving just around the corner, where I could hear him but couldn’t reach him. When I sang he imitated me, but not well.' If I read aloud he drummed on the end of the house. Once I dissembled and won his confidence so far that he accepted an invitation to got to the creek with me. When I got him there, his suspicions were aroused and he refused to go into the boat. He knew very well I was going to drown him. But he didn’t say so. I knew it, too, though I didn’t* say so, either. So nothing was sa-'d about it, and I came home, bitter and heavy-hearted with disappointment. My sole desire now was to catch him in the dark and scalp him. Hut he was wary, and never went in the dark alone. I was just beginning to despair and to feel that my life was a failvfre, when one evening I heard him passing my window where I lay in ambush. I peeped out, and in the dim, misty starlight I just discerned my enemy’s figure passing out of reach. I threw my body far out over the window-sill, and stretching my arm, caught a handful of that hated hair. I had practiced' that clutch on' pillows and bolsters night after night with- vengeful industry. There was no slip to it. My fingers closed on the locks of my foe likd the grip of an octopus, and I gave a yank that would have pulled up a pine tree. The shrieks that split the air of the silent night fairly made my heart stand still, and I shrunk back within the gloom of niy room. Scream after scream, slamming doors, crashing windows, told the house was alarmed and wild with excitement. I must go out; it would not do to remain concealed. I brushed the clinging locks from my guilty fingers. Shrill voices were calling my name. Horrors! I was suspected, then ? Some one had seen me ? The boy had recognized my touch? I went out into the hall. What was the matter,? Well might I ask, they said, sitting there in my room, poring over my book while murder was being done. A gigantic tramp, they told me, hidden under the trees, had ( aught my sister by the hair and nearly broken her neck, and then ran away. I am going to slay that boy with my naked hands if I have to wait till the next war to get a chance at him.

Europe’s Smaliest State.

The smallest state in Europe—beside which the* principality of Monaco and the republics of Andorra and San Marino appear “great powers”—is Moresnet, which is situated between Yerviers and Aix-la-Ohapelle, upon the confines of Belgium and Germany, in a fertile valley watered by a river named La Gueule, which runs into a lake upon the shores of which is an ancient donjon, dating from the time of Charlemagne. The reason assigned for the independence of this district is that the district of Moresnet, which is only about four s juare miles in extent, and has a population of 2,000, possesses some very rich zinc mines, and that, as after the battle of ‘Waterloo, Belgium and could not agree as to which of the two should have possession of these, and as neither would give way, the district was by mutual consent made independent. At that time the district wa3 very poor, and there were not more than fifty dilapidated cottages and huts in it, whereas now there are 800 houses, and the mine yields . a handsome return, so that some time ago it was thought that Germany and Belgium would agree to swallow it up between them. But so far the independence of Moresnet has remained unimpaired, though Germany and Belgium each has a delegate living in the distriot, whose duty it is to settle any dispute which may arise. The administration of the district is intrusted to a burgomaster, who is selected by the delegates of the two governments, and who himself selects ten municipal councilors. There is no elected assembly in Moresnet, and consequently no division into “parties,” while the inhabitants are exempt from military service, and pay onlv five shillings per head taxation. The total revenue of the republic is rather under £6OO, and this suffices to cover all the expenditure, including the school of the district and the “army,” which latter force consists pf one soldier, who acts as gendarme and policeman as welL This soldier is often to be seen enjoying a game of chess or billiards with the burgomaster at the beer garden on the shores of the lake, which enjoys the style and title of Casino. Ihe question as to the relations between church and state does not give any trouble at Moresnet, os the mining company pays the stipend

of the priest, and tbd* only drawback to the complete satisfaction of Moresnet and the inhabitants is that they are not allowed to have postage stamps of their own.— Paris American Register. _

French Baby Show.

From a friend in Paris we have reeieved an official programme of the Universal Congress of Babies held in Paris, Franco, last Bpring. It was organized under the patronage of go« eminent officials, physicians, artists, and many, societies devoted to the protection of infancy. Children from one year to five were admitted without distinction of nationality or birth. A prize of about S2OO was offered for the most beautiful infant, another of less value for the most robust, and other prizes were offered for those parents or nurses who had some new, valuable suggestions to offer relating to the care and bringing up of children. Each child was submitted to an examination under the keen eyes of artists and physicians, and to each was accorded a certain number of points, just as the judges in a dog show look over the animals brought to them. From an eye observer who sent a communication to Babyhood we quote as follows: “To a long wooden hall, or Casino as it is ambitiously called, , the dozens of proud parents daily bring their tiny candidates for the honor of medals and mention, and there they sit waiting until the physicians, artists, and members of the city government shall form a jury ready to pronounce upon each little one. Nothing is more amusing than to stroll through this hall. The heat is quite phenomenal for a Parisian public place, and is all the more necessary because the babies, male and female, are submitted quite nude to the inspection of the jury. As the parents arrive* the husband proudly bears the undressed baby in his arms to a great table on which it is posed before the jurors. Little girl babies usually give the jury but small trouble, but the boys are more aggressive. One beneficial result of this congress was that physicians were able to point out to expectant parents defects which had been overlooked, and which ought early to be discovered and provided for. Parents who thought their babies were fit for a prize were instructed by physicians that the babies had umbilical herpia, rickets, paralyzed muscles, deformities of the bones, or other defects, the early recognition of which made it possible to remedy them. Many of the children offered were ruled out as hot admissible on account of such defects, and of course only those physically perfect and artistically beautiful gained high points in prizes. We should not be at "itll surprised to hear that there was much dissatisfaction and bickering among the exhibitors, as is usual at one of our dog shows. But certainly it is a very useful feature of the, affair that parents were made to see the imperfections in their own children, and furthermore it resulted in dissemination among parents and nurses of a considerable amount of valuable information on the subject of how to raise prize babies. If such competitions could become as general as dog shows, a-- vast amount of work could be accomplished by them. Some such stimulus is needed to improve the hygiene of infancy.— Dr.Foote's Health Monthly.

Austrian Student Life.

The students of the Vienna University, celebrated r .tlier for their love of an occassional fight and their predilection for cliques than for their sympathy with quiet study and “brotherly love,” are endeavoring to bring about a reform. They have published on the blackboard of the university an “open letter, ” in which an appeal is made by “a small circle of colleagues who have become acquainted with each other in the lecture-room, the laboratory, or at the dissecting table,” inviting all students to help in bringing about a reform of student life at Vienna. “Have we a united student life?” the letter asks. “Are we all alike before science, which belongs to all? Unfortunately we have to answer no, we are not. We are separated by national aspirations i.and by religions prejudices; our student organization consists of tho broken parts of what was once a beautiful, perfect vessel. * * * Our conventicles serve only the cult of : Bacchus, and not infrequently the ! treatment of things with which the ! ideal,youth should have nothing to do.” { The committee intends to make pracj tical proposals as to the reform of stu- ! dent life at meetings, which will be orj ganized by the energetic party of re- : formers, who, however, seem to hare ! forgotten the well-known fact, proved on innumerable occasions, that what is : an Austrian's meat is almost always a | Czech’s poison. And the latter are | very numerous at the Vienna University.

Thought He Could Hold It.

“Say,” said an athletic laboring man, addressing tbe night foreman of | a St. Paul morning paper’s composing i room, “I’d like to get the job.” The ! foreman, a nervous man with golden hair and whiskers, looked at the applicant for the position of “copy- | holder,” a position which requires a I man of average education and intelli- ! gence. The duties consist in “holding | the original manuscript and reading to i the proof-reader, who corrects the j errors in'the proof-dbpy, which is com- ! pared thereby with the original.” A j vacancy had recently occurred, and an | advertisement had been inserted lor a new “copy-holder.” “Have you ever had any experience?” asked the foreman, as he looked at the man, who, : dressed in blue jean overalls, appeared to be ill at ease in tbe composing room. “No,” replied the applicant. “Well, do you know,” continued the foreman, “what is expected Of you?” “No,” replied the laborer, “I jest saw'as how | yer wanted somebody to hold copy; ! now, I don’t know what copy is, but I knew I was pretty darned strong, and can hold it if any man can; I can hold a keg o’ nails right out at,arm’s length, either hand. I don’t know how heavy this copy is, but I guess I can hold it if yer’ll g.ve me a chance.”— Bl. Paul I Globe. I Why is the author the queerest of anima's? Because his tale comes out I of bis head.

The Duration of Life.

How long may a human being live in perfect possession of his faculties and powers for good or evil? The question is important to all. Conceive a statesman with a despotic power of influencing men’s wills who should last as long as Old Parr! Think of a beauty who might eclipse the maidens of each fresh season, and whose hestemas rosce should outglow their fresh loveliness, as long as Ninon de l’Euclos was a toast, or Marion Delorme, to whom Balzac assigns 180 years! History, social or political, would be altered ; the whole progress of humanity might be advanced for Rons or retarded by one man, who varied from the kindly race of men and lived twice as long as his oldest neighbor. If we may believe a curious old French book, “History of Persons Who Have Lived for many Ages, and Grown Young Again” (Paris, 171(1,), this fancy is not wholly absurd or impossible. All Europe expects great changes from the death of Prince Bismarck, of Von Moltke, of the Emperor. How would all Europo look if they retained their vigor till, say, 1950? Before the deluge such lives would have seemed prematurely cut short at 150. And since the deluge? Hereon our French author enlightens us with learning from Pliny, Cornaro, and Phlegon of Tralja*. Thus Fohi, the founder of the Chinese Empire, reigned 115 years, and so did Apaphns of Thebes Egyptian, but he, surely, was the son of Zeus! Antiochus Epiphanes died at 149! A king of the Ommanians lived to 115, but that was in Arabia Felix. Tactitus gives 175 years to Tuisco, a German prince. Daddon, an* Illyrian noble, lived for 500 years, according to Alexander Cornelius. Anacreon gives Cinyras of Cypruss 100 years, and Arganthonius, a Spaniard, saw 150 summers. According to Bonfinius, Attila was 124 when he died of the consequences of a revel on the night of his marriage—-hifl second marriage. How long had he lamented his first consort? Epimenides was 157 (others say 229) at his regretted decease. At 100 Euphranor gave up taking private pupils. Sophocles perished by an accident at 130. The Apocrypha mentions the circumstance that Mattatliias died by misadventure at 146. The Countess of Arundel (temp. Charles I.) employed a Mrs. Gamp of 123. Thus, even in its natural way, we need never despair of any man attaining say, 130, a pleasant thought in the case of really great men, whose lives are useful to their country. Why, we might have Cromwell with us yet!— Longman's Magazine.

Letters and Numbers.

The Greeks used the letters of the alphabet for numerals. The cumbersome Bystem used by the ltomans, and called after them, consisted of strokes (I-11-111-IIII) to indicate the four fingers, and two strokes joined (V) to represent the hand, or live fingers. Ten was a picture of two hands, or two V’s (X). But when the Eomaus and Greeks worked at the higher mathematics, or attempted hard sums in arithmetic, they are much more likely to have used letters, in order to avoid the clumsiness of these numerals; in other words, they used what looked like a kind of algebra. We know that they tried to simplify the Roman numerals at Borne by making four and nine with three strokes instead of four, by placing an I before the V, and an I before the X (IV and IX). Our use of the numerals which we call “Arabic” is comparatively recent, and it is believed that the Arabs got these numbers from .India several centuries after the ICpran was written, or about eight hundred years after Christ. Whether the Indian numerals were originally pari of some ancient alphabet, or a series of shortened signs originally somewhat like the Roman numerals that we still use, is not really decided. The numbers used by the peoples of India who wrote in Sanskrit were very like the figures 1,2, 3,4, 5, (;, 7,8, 0, and 0, that we use to-day. Even closer ; resemblances will be found if one goes back to the earliest forms of our numerals; for, during tbe last thousand •years, our numbers have undergone i some slight changes. Together with I these numerals, the Arabs learned from India how to do sums by algebra. For algebra, though an Arabic word, is a science of which the Arabs were ignorant before they reached India. It may be said that the invention of these numerals and of algebra for the higher mathematics stamps the old Hindoos as one of the most wonderful races of the world.— Henry Eckford, in St. Nicholas.

The Story of a Foundling.

A romantic story of a foundling comes from Parma. At the charitable institution there dfsvoted to the care and education of these social waifs was one who had been haptized Hercules Li- ; celli. In the same hospital was an em- ' ploye named Carpi, an industrious i workman and a kind-hearted man. The | latter took a great fancy to the little ; Hercules, and through much cogitation ! on the subject at last convinced himself -that the nameless child was of aristo- | cratic birth and the heir of some disI tinguished family. Years ran by, and j Hercules performed the prescribed mil- , itary duty, while his self-constituted i guardian wont about questioning servants, nurses, and mid wives— any one, in fact, who was likely to give him information. The day at length came when he found himself in possession of j proofs sufficient to establish the identi;ty of his young client He now knew ; that Hercules was the son of a “lady” and “gentleman” who had been lawfully married, and took his case into court There the struggle began, and it was a long and terrible one. The dnfortunate youth was endeavoring to oompel his father to recognize him and reveal the name of his mother. At last a decision was given, and Hercules was declared to be the legitimate’Son of the Marquis Clio Calcagnihi- Estense and the Marquise Christine Waldman. The Marquis, who, perhaps, had reasons for suspecting his wife’s fidelity, had, out of revenge, caused the child to disapEear soon after its birth, aud the unappy mother had died while vainly j begging to be allowed to see her child. —Cor. New York Graphic. .

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Don’t Think Much of Him.

The raciest testimony that ever came within my knowledge to the soundness of Emerson in pract cal matters was delivered by a sturdy, stalwait Vermonter in a tar on a Fitchburg railroad. My journey was to be a tedious one of 300 milcrn and when I took my seat in the car I felt that my fellowpassengers would give me no such glimpses into their character as would be afforded by a ride of ten miles in a stage coach. In a railroad car the passengers are gloomily reticent, as if they expected to be launched into eternity at any moment; in a stage they indulge in all tho fury of gossip and reveal themselves iyhile praising or censuring others. There were two persons in front of me, mighty in bulk, but apparently too absorbed in their own reflections to speak to each other. The train, as usual, stopped at Concord. Then one of the giants turned to the other and lazily remarked: “Mr. Emerson, I hear, lives in this unvn.” “Ya-a-s,” was the drawling rejoinder, “and I understand that in spite of his odd notions he is a man of considerable probity.”— Becollec ions of eminent men. A prominent farmer of Bowling Green, Howard CouEty, Md., Mr. J. T. Ridgely, said his four children were sick with sore throats and coughs at the same time. Red Star Cough - Cure cured them in a week. No opiates.

Umbrellas.

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How to Open Oysters.

“Talk of opening oysters,” said Old Hurricane, “why, nothing is easier, if you only know how.” “And how’s how?” inquired Starlight. “Scotch snuff,” answered Old Hurricane, sententiously; “Scotch snuff, my boy. Bring a little of it over so near their noses and they’H ’sneeze? their lids off.” “I know a gentleman,” observed Meister Karl, “who has a better plan than that. He spreads the oysters in a circle, seats himself in the center, and begins spinning a yarn. Sometimes it’s an adventure in Mexico, sometimes a legend of his loves, sometimes a marvelous stock operation in Wall strefet. As he proceeds the ‘natives’ get interested; one by one they gape with astonishment tremendous and direful whoppers which are poured forth. Then, as they open their mouths my friend whips ’em out, peppers ’em and swallows ’em.” “That’ll do,” said Starlight, with a long sigh; “I wish we had a bushel of ’em here now—they’d open easy!”— The Argonaut.

The Only Way to Conquer Dyspepria.

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