Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1888 — BREEZY BRIEFS. [ARTICLE]

BREEZY BRIEFS.

\sn DOW it is Announced that Jack K iraia ate hia Christmas dinner in the manaie& of Lord and Lady Dr. Clifford, whose tnest he was. It ia probable that U Saillvan licks Kiiiain, he will be in* to dine with Her Majesty, the Q <een* or with Hia Majesty, the Prince <m Wales. ________________ The Charleston News and Coerier presents elaborate atatiatical tables which show that the total revenues of the people of Bonth Carolina from the vnriona industries were $64,000,<000 in IN-iO and $162,000,060 in 1887. That jo imal clasaea the first date aa the slavela *or and the second aa the white-labor period. The increase ia certainly credr i able, sa itiaundonbtedly nearly twice a-< great as the growth in the population Tn year 1887, strange aa it may seem, was an extraordinary one in railroad building, there being 12,724 miles of track laid on 364 lines. Thia is the largest number of milee ever laid in one year, the years nearest approaching it Ving 11,688 miles in 1882, and 9,796 in 1881. The Btate in which the largest ji umber of miles laid was Kansas, the total being being 2,070 on 44 lines. Nebraska with 1,101 being eecond and Texas with 1,065 third. Indiana laid 115 miles of track on 9 lines; Illinois S2B .•ilea on 16 lines, Kentucky 168 mileson 8 lines, and Ohio 166 miles on 14 lines. No bnilding whatever is reported from Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, 1 <«lawake and Nevada,. while in New Mexico bnt four miles were laid and in Utah bnt six.

A bbpobt comes by cable from Dublin, says the Indianapolis News, of the worst exhibition of meanness and petty malice that has occurred even in Ireland in fifty years. The viceroy, it is said, has purchased or rented a hunting seat in the county of Meath, and proposed holding a big hunt there this winter. The farmers held a meeting and decided that they would not have their fields trampled over, and their coming crops damaged by a company of English fox-hunters. For this assertion of their righto, the Viceroy “proclaimed” the county nnder the “crimes” or “coercion act” Hunting in England is a very different thing from what it is here. Bome of onr Eastern anglophibists are trying, in the lack of foxes to chase, to make a substitute of a bag of anise-seed, which is dragged over the proposed hunting ground for the dogs to follow; bnt neither the fun nor the sense of hunting a I ’ stink bag” commends itself to the ' common sense of America. In England and Ireland an actual fox is chased, and ihe chase is more like than not to ran over cultivated fields and damage them seriously, and it is a rare thing that any adequate compensation is made to the victimised farmtxr. His ground and growing crops are at the mercy of the crowd of gentlemen of leisure who have very little regard for anybody out of ineir own idle class, and any one who has seen a drove of horses run over a ploughed field knows that they can do very considerable mischief. The IJrisb f arm ere of Meath had no miDd to submit to such abuse frem the Viceroy of iheir enemy’s making, and for that contumacy their county is put under the ban of the “crimes act” It is about the worst case of meannees and petty revenge we know of.

Goodall’s San: The pale of society is hair powder. A cotton boom creates quite a business bustle. _ The Ohio Legislature has seven editors as members. If John L. Sullivan was a printer he would be “slug one.” A leader m society is very often at the tail end of business. Only matrimonial matches are< made at the Sulphur Springsof Virginia. Nothing so vividly reminds us of the brevity of life as a thirty-day note. This is the season when bai-tender make things hot for their customers. Detroit Free Press: A signal failure— A futile attempt to stop a street our. They call the connubial tie a bow* knot in Chicago, because it pulls out so easily. The corresponding clerk always plumes himself upon being a man of letters. - It is a paradoxical fact that most people don’t get even coaled comfort nowadays. Solomon, when arrayed in all bis glory, never wore a pink cross-bar shirt and white collar. '• ■ A Matter of Importance. “Can I see your father' for a few min* utes before I go, Miss Hendricks?” be asked ;“I . want to speak to him on a matter of importance.” “Certainly, Mr. Sampson,” replied the girl with a blush. After Mr. Sampson had taken his departure with a happy smile on his face, Miss Hendricks found her way to her father’s shoulder, and stealing her arm about his neck, whispered: - ■ ■ ~ “What did Tie wanrrpapa?” “He is agent for a patent gas burner.” said the old Man, “and I have agreed to .give it a trial.”