Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1887 — CURRENCY. [ARTICLE]

CURRENCY.

eetroit Free Press. When trains are stove in they should have their stoves oat. A theater runs by means of its footlights, a locomotive by its headlight. Henry George thinks of starting a paper. That will settle his anti-poverty gains. The Osage Indians have $7,000,000 at interest. Wonder some white man haven’t made a raid on them. Who says that literary men are poor? The “literary feilers ' of London propose a $206,001 monument to Chas. Dickens. ‘ "'oea marriage change a man?” asks the ban Francisco Chronicle. It certainly taxes from him all the change he’s got “Trust companies” is the latest name for “corner” swindles. “Positivel no trust" should be the motto of this country. The Winnipeg Skandmaske Canadieneeserwon is in esteemed contemporary. We would say more about it if we could read it. Let’s all go to Dakota. You can go out in the fields in the forenoon and dig all the coal you want for winter. No coal rings or short weight there. Hlias Wayman, of York State, is 104 .years old, and has used tobacco for 94 years. He fears it will be the death of him yet if he cannot break off the habit. Charles Dickens says the pientres of American life printed by his father have become antiquated. They were a trifle antiquated at the time the brush was put on.

Five thousand shoemakers are on a strike in Philadelphia. More pay is where the shoe pinches. The men have staked their awl on the fight, and are sure to win if they keep pegging away. Flaherty, aged 67, and Mrs. Slater aged 58, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., eloped the other day. The two giddy young things were brought back by an officer. This is supposed to be the most aged elopement case on record. Hamlet spoke contemptuously about “words, words, words,” but all the same Robert Louis Stevenson has been offered, by a New York firm, $15,000 for a story of 75,000 words. Rob ought to work off Webster’s dictionary on them. That contains the number. A Chicago woman paid $lO for a napkin Mrs. Cleveland used. Doubtless the President’s wife would be glad to sell her own assortment for such a price. There is a precedent for it. Gladstone asks seventy-five cents each for the chips he cut on his farm.

Media county, Pa., finds that it costs $6.89 to convict a tramp and it thinks that is too expensive and would be glad to learn of some less costly way of getting rid of traveling gentlemen. Set a red-haired woman with a broom after em. No white horse could save them then. It is rumored that Joseph Pulitzer recently offered James Russell Lowell SIO,OOO a year to become literary editor of the World, but that Mr. Lowell declined. Morris Fox, of Danbury, Conn., is to be the youngest telegraph operator in the country. He is 12 years old, and he began work when only 9. Duncan C. Ross is no ‘ much a man as his name would seem to imply. He was born in Turkey and naturalized in this country. Mr. Gladstone has lately expressed himself in favor of some plan by which members of Parliament will receive salaries for their services. Seven United States Senators visited Europe in the past summer. , „ Palmer, Stockbridge, Halerye, Spooner, Aldrich and Hawley. The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon is laid to have declined an offer of $90,000 for 100 lectures, to be delivered in this country. Gobble is the name of the man with has g—, got hold of the postoffice at Pattonsville, Pa. Dr. Wm. A. Hammond says that there are 500 doctors in New York City more than are needed.