Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1888 — Atwood to the Fore. [ARTICLE]

Atwood to the Fore.

Tub “White Pasha” has been heard from again. He is reported to have gion with disastrous results 10 his foes. As the date of this engagement is not given, no definite conclusions can !«■- drawn from the report. It would seem, however, to disprove the claim of Cap tain Van Gele that he himself,and- no Stanley or any other, was the “White Pacha.” Captain Van Gele returned to Europe from the Congo country sbou( the middle of September. j 11 be was not the mysterious white man, the proba bility that it was Stan cy is strengthened. - The decision in the Tildeu will case in New York is of general interest It is one more of those cases where expectant heirs,by litigation, undertake to get what dose not belong to them and what the owner never intended they should have. It is unfortunate that in many such cases, by persistent litigation, the claimants succeed in worrying the true heirs into a compromise. The ' Supreme Court in the present case decides against the nephew who lays claim. He has taken the case to the Court of Appeals. The intention and explicit will of Mr. Tihien was to found a greatpublic library and reading room. The property left for this purpose amounts to $5,000.001 or more. Our laws allow too great latitude to breakers of wills. An improvement on church fairs has been devised in Lincoln, Neb., if we may trust the Omaha papers. One of the churches, wishing to raise money to pay off the debt, offered merchants of all aorta a chance to advertis- on the walls of the church. A large and handsome advertising card appeared in a eonspi cuous place containing the names of such merchants as accepted the oppor tunity at $5 a head. At the close of divine service, the pastor called attention -to the card, faying that they were all reliable men, wh i could be safely dealt with, and advising his parishioners to patronise them. This may be better than some other plans a good deal niore commonly adopted. At least the merchants get their money's worth. The Florida orange crop is estimated at 3,000,000 boxes, which is more than double the product of any previous year. Each box holds, on an average, 150 oranges, which will be ten for every person in the United States. But these 450,000,0 at Floridas will not be one-half the oranges sold in our markets. There is no fruitgrown more valuable to both consumer and grower than the orange. Think of the good times if every person in the land really had his twenty oranges. By the end of the century the average to each person will be not less than 100, for most of the best groves are just coming into bearing. This is true of California as well as Florida The enormous consumption of oranges is tallied by the equally increased consumption of grapes and berries. The i u>i » > I »’»d ’ New England are very encouraging to people of light complexion, blue eyes and brown hair, while tall people have a decided advantage over the short. The men who stand above ,Bfll years range from 100 to 168 pounds, and the women from 100 to 120. The men through life have been of the bony sort; but the women the other way. The teeth are mostly gone, but hair in good condition; and in almost all cases the skin remains smooth and moist. .If any one wishes to figure up his chances of living to a good old age, he can take these items into the count, if they are favorable to him; if not we advise him to reject them and reljy on good habits, moderate exercise ami going to bed eArly and rising early. The old recipe for long life is good—“He that would live long must watch the sun;” that is, go to bed early and be up at sunrise. , The effect of the rise in flour and breadis said to be simply terrible in the lower quarters of New York City. There has been a rapid increase in the use of the darker breads made by Russians, Hebrews and Hungarians; but this also has gone up, of necessity, in price. Stale bread, which used to be given away, has of late years been sold at from 1c to 2J. Much of this .is full of maggots, mold and filth; but it is bought and eaten Indeed, there are ninety dealers in Stale bread on three blocks of the Sixth Ward. But stale bread also has gone up in price. The result is something quite approaching mobs. Worse yet is the gradual creation of a mob element, ready for bread riots such as have characterized European capitals. Opr social fabric is constantly in danger between anarchy on one side and monopolies on the other. They exist as cause and consequence.

Hartford Courant. 1 The towns of Killingly,Mansfield,Norfolk, and Thomaston, wl 1 each be represented in the com ng Legislature by a member named Atwood. Four persons of the same name are not often found in the same Legislature, and certainly Atwood would not be selected as a name likely to be most numerous in a body of 246 men. The four Atwoods are all Republicans.