Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1889 — NOTES AND COMMENTS. [ARTICLE]

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The? social season and the suicide season being both nearly over, the dress Shit may be folded u? and put away where the moths will not get at it.— —Chicago News. r: :T 7X,lot of Boulanger ciphers have been discovered in Paris, but the greatest Boulanger cipher—the gentleman himself, we mean—is still in London.— Pniladelphia Press. Stanley has been heard from again, and the great question now seems to be where is Bennett? Has he yet met the Mahdi and drank him under the table? - Chicago Herald. The literary interests of the country demand the appointment of William D. Howells as Minister to Russia. It will give him his only chance of ever discovering a plot. —’Baltimore American. Will the people who love to cavil at the newspapers stop and reflect upon the noble results the press of the country has achieved for the welfare of the suffering? Wo hope so.—Phiiadelpba X orth American. 22'-"" i Up to the present time nearly $500,* 000,000 have been spent in supplying drinking water to the people of the United States. It would be interesting to know how much other beverages have cost the country.—New York Herald. The New York World is receiving a good deal of information from correspondents as to who are the oldest twins in this country. The oldest twins we know of are Wickedness and Want; and they will probablv survive till doomsday. —Boston Herald. : Scientists have discovered that intoxication by radiation is possible. That is, a man may become intoxicated by contact with another who is under the influence without partaking of a drop himself. Now the great question is, who sat next to Senator Riddleberger in the Senate chamber.—Chicago Herald. The schoolmaster is on top and going tp stay there until he has done his work. The millions already expended for the education of the negroes will be supplemented by other millions, until we have a school master on every hill and the finest lot of educated AfricanAmericans that the world ever saw.— Atlanta Constitution. The only persons who are always absolutely unmoved by heat and humidity are the worthy gentlemen having in charge the weather bureau. Through it all they go on predicting‘‘fair —cooler” with a confidence worthy of a better reward than they usually get, namely, more heat and greater humidity.—New York Tribune. There is a larger portion of the boys and girls of New Jersey than any other State in the Union who go to Sunday school. It appears by statistics recently taken that there are just about 280,000 children in the 1,997 Sunday schools of New Jersey. This fact ought to insure a high grade of morality for the next generation of the citizens of the State. —New York Sun. The London Daily News tells this interesting anecdote in a sketch of the late Laura Bridgman. When Carlyle impertinently asked, “What great or noble thing has America ever done?” somebody replied, “She has produced a girl, deaf, dumb, and blind from infancy, who, from her own earnings, has sent a barrel of flour to the starving subjects of Great Britain in Ireland,” : ~ ' At what -point- in a courtship is a man privileged to withdraw without paying damages? He may ask a woman to marry him and discover in the very manner of her consent that she does not love him; Suppose he desires to retreat from what seems to him a loveless engagement? Have the fourply steel hooks of the law already taken hold of him, or can he escape scratchless? Where is the danger point?— New York Herald. Until 1880 Maryland was the only Southern State which had a bank that was exclusively a savings institution. In 1887 North Carolina was added to the list, and the next year South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiania, these four States reporting over 23,000 depositors and nearly $6,000,000 in deposits. Both as a sign of the development of thrift, and as a promoter of the habit, the rise of the savings bank system in the South is’heartily to be welcomed.—New York Evening Post. A Chicago clergyman thinks that if Daniel Webster had played base ball he would never have been heard of. How (Joes he know that? The man who dealt such sledge hammer blows from the rot tram might have done equally well on the home plate, or in the box. And people who have never heard of the Jove of the United States Senate would to-day be perfectly familiar with the record of “Danny Webster, the phenom of Boston.” Not heard of indeed? That clergyman doesn’t know fame when he sees it —New York Tribune.