Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The nroportion of old maids is increasing, so they say, and a woman of some note in the literary world congratulates her “sisters" on fbelrindcpendence. She insists that as a rule old maids are intellectual and interesting. It does not appear whether the fact in the census is owing to a growing spirit of independence on the part of the womejj or of the same on the part of the men, This same writer hints that women have so many new and interesting fields of work open to them that they consider husbands as useless incumbrances. All of which may be true, but we shall not wait till the proportion gets to be considerably larger before believing that marriage fees and divorce courts are no longer necessary. Horace Mann used to say the most useful member of society was an old maid, and that no community, however small, could get on without one or two. Ne can probably survive a considerable increase of the stock.

The phonograph is said to be causing as much annoyance in some quarters as the instantaneous photographic process. One was recently used to steal the score of a new opera. It was discovered however, and ejected from the house. It was concealed under the coat of the wouldbe thief. There is, of course, no objection to its use at a concert to retain a song, or at an opera to retain a score, to be repeated and re-enjoyed athome. But there is a startling probability that some people will, by and by learn to stay at home and save expense by having an agent secure the opera at the cost of one ticket of many. Actresses and actors are said to be utilizing the instrument to get the exact vocal expressions desired by instructors, and then by mimicry arid repetition secure the prec se tones. . The applications of the phonographare probably far more various than that of telegraph or telephone. Sir William Thompson writes to Edison that it is the most valuable aid to science of our age.

Richmond has.a traveling club. Anderabn livery men have organized a trust A horse at Worthington is thirty-five vear old. Tramps are enjoying the hospitality of some of the Lake Maxinkuckee cottages. ; ■ ... Alex. Creamer is an old veteran of Waynetown, and applied for a pension ip 1879, He never heard from it until Friday, when he was informed that he had been granted a pension with back pay, which will give him about $2,000. The officers of the various State industrial associations have agreed upon the following dates for the annual meetings of their several societies. Hort cultural Society. Tuesday, Dec. 4; tile-makers; Tuesday, Dec. 14; delegates meeting agriculturabboard, Tuesday Jan. 8; canegrowers, Tuesday, Jan. 15; bee-keepers, Wednesday, Jan. 16; poultry-breeders, Thursday. Jan. 17; Jersey cattle-breed-ers, Tuesday, Jan, 22; Wool-growers, Wednesday, Jan. 23; short-horn cattlebreeders, Thursday Jan. 24; swinebreeders, Friday, Jan. 25. Each of the societies will meet in the agricultural rooms of the Capitol. The Horticultural Society, at its meeting on Dec. 4, expects to exhibit th« finest collection of fruit ever shown in the State. The session of the Board of Agricultural will last a week and will be attended by delegates fromxither sections.

French Tea and Coffee. Good Housekeeping. ■ .». . » A noted French chef makes coffee by pouring boiling water on the ground berries; after filtering, the water is again boiled and again poured on the coffee; and finally a third time. He does not boil the water and coffee together, nor put the coffee in cold water and let it come to a Boil. To make good tea, he says, you must pour boiling water on it and throw it out immediately. Then pour one-thirti of the boiling water required, put the pot over a steaming apparatus, and then add another third, and finally the last third, repeating the steaming, in order to let it draw without boiling. This is what the French cook of a well-known millionaire koes.~