Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1888 — POLITICAL DRIFT. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL DRIFT.

New York Daily.. Graphic has started a new feature, “Our Poet’s Corner,” and as The Graphic announces, “the department is expressly designed for the profit and celebration of our poetic contributors,” iu which it> is intended to publish all the verses sent that paper. This is, we believe, the first attempt of any metropolitan daily to encourage the development of American poetical genius and will certainly “fill a long felt want” as well as increasing the already exceedingly great popularity of The Graphic. ’Here is an opportunity for our local poets td become celebrated by sending their effusions writ tun on one side of the_sheet to the Poetry Editor of The Graphic, New York.

Exstox HowaJui, of the Navy, gives a new proof of the crossing of wolves and dogs. He says' lirtris-accQunt of Arctic Alaska, tliat the natives keep all the young wolves that they catch and train them as dogs for teams. Dogs and wolves are reared together. The dogs, he says, aremore than half wolf and have the characteristics of those animals. They are without affection, but obey their masters through "'fear. One dbg in each team makes himself master and overseer.' Ts any dog shirks he will punish him. If he can not get at liifft while in harness he will not forget to give him, chastisement when released at night. They are capable of enormous endurance, like wild wolves, and can fast and wo:k a long while. Our dogs are unquestionably in part of wolf lineage.

A certain farmer and granger, about one hundred years ago, wrote the follo wing farm notos-good yet: “Economy in all things is as commendable in the manager as jt is beneficial and desirable to the employer; and on a farm if shows itself in nothing more evidently, or more essentially, than in not suffering the provender to be wasted; but, on the contrary, in taking care* that every atom of it be used to* the best advantage; and likewise in not permitting the plows, harness, and other implements of husbandry and the grass belonging to them to be unnscessarily exposed, trodden under foot, run over by carts, and abused in other respects.” That farmer and gran gen's name was George AA’ashington. He was as good a farmer as lie was Father o his Country.

The Bureau of Statistics at Washington has issued a report showing the arrivals of foreign immigrants in this country for the year ending June 30. It shows an increase over the arrivals of year from 183,1 id to 639,818. An analysis shows that the immigration from England and Wales exceeded that from Ireland by nearly 10,000, in addition to which over 24,000 immigrants’ came from Scotland. The total from the British Islands was 180,700, against 150,783 the previous year. From Germany there were 108,024, a slight inciyase. From Norway Ana Sweden the number rose from 58,741 to 72,015, and that from Italy increased from 48,524 to 51,075. There was only a very slight increase in immigrants from Hungary and Bohemia, the number for each year being a little below 20.000.

A remarkable eccentricity of the campaign is the formation of a “Harrison, Morton and Hill” Club in Rochester.— New York World. General Fisk is an office-holder under the present Democratic administration, being Chairman of the Board of Indian , Commissioners. - The Republican candidate for Governor of Kansas is an Ohio ihan. The liquor-dealers of New York have raised $250,000 to be used to elect Hill. In Wisconsin it is said the Prohibition party is going to pieces, two"of the nominees on the State ticket declining to run.

Senator Frye will take part in the Michigan campaign. Senator Ingalls has also pro&dsed to visit the State and make a few speeches. >. Some talk is hearcTof Mayor tiewitt for Governor of New York. Judge Thurman will visit Michigan. He is new suffering from a cold. Chairman Hunter, of the lowa Democratic committee, claims that his party will gain two Congressman in that State this fall. Chairman Mills spoke at Atlanta to 15,000 people in support of the measure bearing his name. He was received with great enthusiasm. At the Democratic national headquarters the other day A. J. Smith, a wealthy Kansan, created a sensation by declaring it possible to carry Ms State for Cleveland. . The Vermont campaign was opened at Burlington Tuesday, Senator Edmunds addressing an enormous crowd. AVarner Miller made a tariff speech and Congressman Butterworth and J. M. Thurston, of Nebraska, added their testimony. Fanner Smith was laid ont eold in the third round by State Senator L. W. Humphrey in the contest for the Republican nomination for Governor of Knngfl« The platform affirms the justice of the prohibition principle, and de dares against saloons, f§.