Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1889 — Page 2

THE DAKOTAS.

Both New Htates. Will Hare Fine Public Institutions. The division of Dakota into two States throws upon the constitutional - conventions of the Territory more work than falls to the lot of Montana and Washington. The dividing line is drawn by Congress, but there are records, public property and a Territorial debt to be divided, and this is left to the two conventions to do through a commission. The conventions of North and South Dakota are required to appoint not less than three members each to form this commission. Such division as this commission shall recommend of jecords, property and debt will be incorporated in each constitution to be voted upon by the people. Each State will in this way be obligated to" take care of its share of the debt. Fortunately the debt is not large, and there is no doubt the commission will be able to agree on the respective shares. As to the property, Dakota has been so long preparing for the split that it will not be disturbing element. But it will surprise many people to learn with what an array of public institutions the two

Dakotas will start in Statehood. Each of the Dakotas will have a State university. South Dakota’s seat of higher learning is at Vermillion. It has been in operation only sir years, and it has grounds, buildings and ap paratus which coat slso,Oik). It has a faculty of twenty professors, and the enrollment of students during the year just closing was over 400. The university of North Dakota is at Grand Forks. It is not so large, out has over 100 students and nine professors. The School of Mines is at Rapid City, and will naturally go to South Dakota. North Dakota has little use for a school of mines. This institution last year had forty-eight pupils at work in its laboratories. It iB located where it can do the most good—in the Black Hills country. In the fitness of things the Dakota Agricultural College ought to be North Dakota’s, btfriCwiU not. It is far below the dividing line—at Brookings. With its farm, halis, laboratory, library,shops and 250 students, the college will go to South Dakota. But each of the two new States wilj have a fine normal school property. South Dakota will have the normal at Madison, with its massive granite and pressed brick structure,four stories high, 84 feet front and 76 feet width, and twenty aeres of campus. North Dakota will get the Spearfish Normal, for which the Legislature, two years ago, appropriated $25,0C0 to increase the accommodations. The School for Dsaf Mutes at Sioux Falls, the Reform School at Plankinton and the Yankton Insane Asylum go to South Dakota by virtue of their locations. But there is a North Dakota Insane Asylum at Jamestown, with new wards and improvements. Each of the Dakotas will have a penitentiarv—North Dakota’s at Bismarck and South Dakota's at Sioux Falls. Of course, there is only one course to pursue in dividing these twelve institutiofls, and that is to let them go according to their locations north or south of the dividing line of the States. South Dakota seems to have rather the best of the bargain, but there are other things to be taken into consideration, such as of the acres of school lauds. Then there is the Territorial Capitol at Bismarck in North Dakota. South Dakota starts without any capitol, and only temporary arrangement for her Constitutional Convention to meet at Sioux Falla. The bonded debt, whieh the two Dakotas will have to divide, is oalv $1,098,000. Against that the assessment roll for 18S8 shows the ‘ assessed valuation of property, exclusive of 4300 miles of railroad, to be $161,42 ',974 30. Certainly here are a pair of new sisters which the Union of the States may be proud to welcome. Almost any Western Commonwealth, recollecting the methods by which it acquired railroads and public institutions, may feel a twihge of envy at the happy condition in which the Dakotas will enter upon Statehood with a debt which is only a bagatelle compared with what others are carrying.

POINTS ABOUT THE BEE.

Bill Njc Give* Some Valuable Scientific Information Bill Xye In Indianapolis Journal __ . The queen, daring the propagating season, lays aa high aa 2,000 eggs in a day, and I have given much thought to the grafting of the queen upon the Plymouth rock hen, with a view to better egg facilities, but so far to meet with very little success. My experiments have been somewhat delayed by the loss of time in taking the swelling out of myself after each perusal of the bee character in his or her home life. The queen lives much longer than any other claaa of inhabitants', and hangp on to the throne, as the hiatorimn Motley says, like a pap to a root She has a stinger, but does not use it on the boys. She uses it sics ply for the purpose of fighting other queens. The ancients were aware of the existence of a governing bee in each hive, but they thought it was a king. But a scientist with keen insight and massive

brains one day saw the monarch come off the nest and leave 2,184 warm eggs. Then it was settled in his mind that it could not be, a king, for he was a deep, deep man. His name was Swammerdam, and he made this discovery two hundred years ago laßt week. Aristotle and Virgil claimed in several articles, signed Veritas and Tax-payer, respectively, that the queen, or king, a 3 they called it then, did not lay at all, but some kind of pollen or other material from flqwersi ■which produced the maggots from which the bee was batched. A writer on the bee says that the BFsf way to ascertain the location of the queen, is to divide the swarm, after which it'will be noticed that the one having the queen will become very restless indeed. I tried this myself, end noticed that they were restless. They also communicated their restlessness to me. All of us got restless. Swammerdam tied the queen by means of a long hair to a high pole in order to ascertain whether the swarm would follow. In ten minuteß he had the whole colony on top of the pole. The drones are the male bees of the hive. They do no work except in a mental capacity and vote. They have no stingers, but in its place they have a good appetite and a baritone voice. They are destroyed by the workers soon after the honey season, and the widows have it all their own way. The drone leads a quiet and sunny life, lasting about sixteen weeks, after which he is put to death by the females of the hive by the Maybrick method. Abopt nine-tenths of the workers of the hive are females, say twelve to fifteen thousand. They get up early in the morning, eat a hasty meal and go out looking for honey. They flj with great force and as straight as a bullet. Sometimes they try to go through a man on their way to the hive, but only get part way. A bee likes to have a tender young man with linen trousers sit down ou it.

From the time the egg is deposited until a perfect bee is turned out requires about three weeks. A queen gets her growth in sixteen days and begins to reign. Moths get into the bee hives frequently during the winter season and destroy the insects. For this reason bees should be packed in snuff or fine cut tobacco in the fall. This nauseates the moth and discourages him. Great care should be used not to let the bees go out too early in the spring. A good writer says that frozen fruit which still remains on the trees in the epriDg, while it contains a certain amount of sweet, is liable to ferment and cause wide spread colic in the hive, followed by cholera infantum and coma. Linuams says that nothing is more pitiful than tue picture of fifteen or sixteen thousand colicky bees suddenly called forth in the dead of night, running hither and thither for hot cloths and Jamaica ginger, after eating too heartily of frozen apple juice.

Teeth of Children. A physician remarked to me, the other day, that he did not suppose that 1 per cent of the dentistry is being done that should be. He attributed the cause to ignorance and wondered if in time the preßS woHld not be used as a means of educating the public to the importance of dentistry. One source of a great deal of suffering among children of parents who desire to save the teeth of the rising generation is the ignorance regarding the cutting of the second or permanent set. The first teeth of the permanent set to erupt are the first, or 6-year molars, which take their places back of the last molars of the first, or milk set. These teeth are more subject to decay than any others, and they are also very important, as they do the principal part of the mastication between the 6th and 12th years. Parents frequent'y mistake these teeth for members of the milk set, hence neglect them, thinking that when they are lost new ones will take their places. Another source of suffering is the neglect of the milk set. These teeth should be filled ahd retained in the mouth until the second set is ready to take their places. Toothache can be avoided by proper attention.

Dowers for Royalty. Despite the immense wealth of the Earl of Fife, whose engagement baa just been announced to the Princess Louise, it is believed that Parliament will be called upon to dower the bride. The Star raises a howl in anticipation of this demand, and calls upon Gladstone to take a firm stand in opposition to all dowers in the future, until such time as the whole system of support of the offspring of royalty can be settled. There are at the present time still twenty-three princes and princesses unprovided with consorts, and if claims of (his nature are to continue to meet with recognition the total demand upon the public treasnry will be something appalling. The nine children of the Queen have bo far cost the country in cold cash the snug sum of Jt5.000.000, and the Star suggests, as a partial relief from the burden which a provision for royal prlnoea imposeo, least might makeau effort to catch the rich American heiresses who come to Europe to be caught. In this way some little relief could be afforded to the taxpayers, while the heiresses would probably consider that they had their money'e worth.

The Health of the World.

The other day 1 took up a New York newspaper and read: “The dictates of fashion death to health and happiness. The world is cursed with sick people. It is almost impossible to find a well woman, and not a little difficult to find a perfectly well man.” and so on. It was all anent the poor, much abused corset, that hapless womt insists on wearing to the grave, let that pass. . ■' ' . •" We don’t cares button about corsets Boston, where the women go about looking like bags run through a cylin-der-press; but what I would like to remark is this: Corset, or no corset, a onsideration which ought not to af'ect the sterner sex, the world is much! tore healthier than it was 60 or a 100 ears ago. It is a deal bigger than len, and the sufferers may be in proortion, but physicians who have ■•eached the good old Egb of 70 odd affirm that the average of life is greater than in their youth. One of the most thoughtful practitioners here, a nan of learrting and wide pathological research, s ays the improvement in the American race, physically, is due to its regard to hygienic laws," better" food, less medicine, and the protect ion science has afforded against the attacks of climate. Our great-great-grandmothers killed themselves wearing low shoes in midwinter, and died of consumption because they would not cover up their necks and arms, and it was rare in those days to find a New England family that had not lost one or more members by that disease, while now their descendants have almost eradicated its seeds from their constitutions, and look the picture of health in—corsets. Well, you pay your money and so forth, but as to getting frightened by the resounding phrases of dress reform, don’t. Perhaps the dear girls, though, are not as healthy as they appear to the appreciative eve of a believer in anti-sloppiness.—Boston Herr aid.

The Ungallant Cuthbert.

Sir Cuthbert, that out-and-out woman hater, would have no female 'ureaUn%"sb6ut r his place in LindsfarheT not suffering even a cow, saying, “Where there was a cow there must be a woman, and where there was a woman there mu st be mischief.’ In the cathedral at Durham, dedicated to him, a black cross in the pavement marked the spot beyond which no woman was allowed to pass. In 1333 Edward 111. and his queen went to the priory at Durham where they lodged together. In the- middle of the night a monk broke rudely into their room, saying to the queen that St. Cuthbert lovod not her sex, and that she must up and go. Tho queen I fumbled ovt bod, undressed as she was, and sp«mt the rest of the night in the church, praying for pardon to the patron saint whom she had offended. In 1417 two servant girls dressed themselves as men and “impiously approached the saint’s shrine," to be Severely handled by the authorities.— Fortnightly Review.

Where Cars Are Run With Sails.

lAwns looking at some models, in the Nißional Museum, of curious cars used in the early days of railroading in this country, when Mr. Watkins, the curator, pointed out one particular one that had a mast and sail. Experiments with such cars were made on the Baltimore & Ohio and on-tho South Carolina road. It was then a serious question whether the motive power on railroads would be sail, horse or steam. The steam locomotive was looked upon as an experiment. Sail cars are used today on a guano railroad on the island of .Malden, in the South Pacific. They are, in fact, used nearer home than that, for railroad men at Barnegat Beach, when the wind is favorable, frequently ride over the road on construction cars, sloop-rigged. “The wind has a good deal to do with railroading even to-day,” Mr. Watkins said. “If you go to the Board of Intelligence at the Board street station. Phi 1adelphia, and ask if sometrain, say from New York, is likelyrto be ou time, you may be informed that it is likely to be jour or five minutes late because there is a strong wind from the west, Winds make considerable difference in tho running time of trains.”—Philadelphia Telegraph.

Another Theory.

The Hungarian poet. Mauricj Jokai, who was an intimate friend and companion of the late Prince Rudolph, says the London Globe, has just made a contribution to the solution of what is still the mysterious tragedy of Meyorllng. The poet’s theory is that the Crown Prince, seeing public opinion going against what ho conceived to be his mission, deliberately sacrificed himself to the peuce of the world. In support of this idea he cites iwo scraps of conversation, in one of which Prince Rudolph, referring to the floating rumors about.his relation, said: "I love my family beyond everything, and tell those who say the opposite that they do not say the truth.” The other was: Ah' How I would like to die oa a fldld of battle. Wan ts inevitable, and therefore, would that it would come quickly! The longer it is delayed the worse it will be. Either we will conquer or we will fall with glory.” This settles the question jrt the mind of the | poet, but we fear the unpoetic world L wijjl require more definite evidence.-

Swindling at Calais.

There was one fellow in particular whose roguery impressed me by its sheer boldness and nerve. - He was a tall, gaunt ruffian, with a broken nose and a goiture like an Italian Swiss, | His hat was a dingy old English derby, i his shabby dress showed not even--the [ faintest notion of imitating a uniform, and he spoke only a few words of English. Yet he was going around and I collecting from all the passengers | Whom observation showed knew no French, the sum of 6d. for each piece 1 of luggage they had brought over on the steamer. In this he was aided by ail the porters, who.because they spoke English, had been employed to carry this luggage. These thieves having satisfied themselves that the ir particular patron knew no French, would beckon to this chief swindler, and then say: “This is'the agent of the steamship company. You must pay him 6d. each for nine pieces of luggage.” Of course this sweeping fraud would now and again strike a snag. Some passenger who retained his senses in the tumult and crush! would explain that he was not born yesterday. Then the tout would make a pretense of looking at this wise man’s luggage ticket, and, with unabashed-effrontery, say: “Oh, I see you paid on the other side.” To talk to the station-master or train officials about this impudent rascality would be like whistling to the moon. They are all leagued together, from the top to the and they . the cheekiest crew of villains to be found at the present moment anywhere outside a prison.—Cor. New York Times.

He Got His Bath Free.

A good story is told on Baily Magruder, keeper of a bath house at Sanford, Fla. A boy applied to him for a bath but as he had no money he was told that he could not get one. However, upon reflection, Bailey said to him: “I will tell you what I will do. If you go and get six other boys I will let you have your bath free.” The boy agreed to the proposition, and went and got the requisite six boys and all were ader told the attendant of the agreement, and told him not to charge the boy any thing for his bath. After waiting awhile the attendant went in to collect fares. What was his surprise to see the six boys perched upon the benches watching the one boy take his free bath.

The "Yellow Fever in New York

Society has the yellow fever. Not the scourge, but an insatiable taste for the color. The fancy has been raging for some time and still the Cry is more, Palms are displayed in windows, cornet’s and hallways, and in nothing but a yellow jardiniere is the beauty of color and foliage so effectively brought out. No cabinet is considered, relieved without a bit of yellow porcelain, and a drop lamp or pedestal burner of orange china, with trimmings of blackened iron, is the very acme of artistic taste. Then there is the king’s blue candlestick, with the candle of gilded yellow was; and how can you imagine a bunch of mignonette more poetic than when displayed in a smooth bowl of underglazed yellow? These craze colorists, who are a law unto themselves, go so far as to worship “that molten thing of beauty,” which the florists were obliged to force and which brings as good returns as the queen of flowers, the rose. But think of putting marigolds in a yellow bowl, and then say who dictates in chromatics. —New York Sun.

A Picket Fence Over a Hill.

“R. 1). C.” asks if it will take more pickets to build a fence through a hill than over it, the pickets to be set two inches apart* and to be two inches wide in both cases. It will depend on how tho pickets are set. If in both cases they are set perpendicularly to the plane of the hill the same number will be required in both cases. But if the pickets over the hill are sot perpendicularly to the surface of tho hill it will require more, but how many more will depend upon the difference in distance over and through the hill. —Chicago News.

The Man for the Place.

Mr. Oldchap—"Yes, I have concluded to apprentice my son to a barber.” Friend—" Has he a bent that way?” "Well, no; but I think he’ll be popular. He doesn’t like onions.”.—New York Weekly.

What an Observing Boy Learned.

"Papa,” said the son of a railroad conductor who was accompanying his father on a short run. "who in that thin, sickly looking man in the front of the car?” "He’s agent for a patent medicine that is warranted to cure every disease that was ever known and restore anybody to perfect health.” "Who is ’that big. fat, jolly looking fellow in the seat behind him?” "He’s an undertaker.” "Oh! What does that little bit of a fellow with the duster on do?” "He’s going to play Macbeth in the next town.” "Who is that man with the sad eyes and the lonely look on his face? Hasn’t he got any friends?” r "Not many; he writes funny things for the hewapaper.”—Merchant Travel etv's

A Fascinating Man.

Virtue, unfortunately, does not fascinate. The veriest scoundrel that ever drew breath is apt to be a thousand times more magnetic than he, who, having marked out an ethical path for himself, proceeds religiously ting manners. They represent as it were, what a garniture of truffles represents on an entree. They give flavor as well as artistic beauty. The fascinating man is always a skilled artist. He must assume, if he have it not, a tenderness that never loses sight of itself, and he must continually show an appreciation that presents him always in the light of a suppliant on bended knee, and never as one who demands or expects anything. Nearly all wom£n are vain, and the" man who would fascinate must begin by flattering a vanity. But he must likewise take care that his modus operandi is never discovered or its existence ever suspected. Otherwise he is lost The courage and independence born of possession unfortunately incite to t.he reckless expression of absolute truth, and a man who desires to please a woman, should never tell the whole truth. Suggest it, play with it, ignore it entirely, but reveal it never! The Latin races are adepts in the art of fascination. Why? Because they are always lovers, or pretend to be lovers, which in the end amounts to the same thing. Emerson expressed .an unalterable truth when he said: “All the world loves a lover.” But in order to be a lover it is not necessary to rush into vulgar protestation of affection. A glance of the eye. a pressure of the hand, the particular curl of the lip in a smile, the hundred trivial courtesies that appeal to the feminine sympathies are embodiea in the man who fascinates. And when he has once mastered the secret of feminine inclination and the special qualifications of feminine taste, his way is clearly marked. Be he ugly as Satan, he will not fail in personal magnetism.—Once a Week.

He Was Too Honest.

“I try~to be a man of my word,” he said, as he entered a Cadillac eating house yesterday, “but I can’t always do as I promise.” “What did you want?”" asked the proprietor. v “You gave me a square meal on tick two months ago. The bill was fortylive cents. I promised to pay in six week-s, but I am a little late.” “I don’t remember the circumstance. ’ - “Perhaps not, as you are a big-heart-ed man, but I db, and here’s your money.” » The proprietor pulled in , a $2 Canadian bill and flung out the change, rather disgusted with the man’s honesty. Ten minutes later, however, this disgust had changed to admiration. In making ehange he took a closer look at the bill, and on the back he found the stamp: “Suspended 1884.” —Detroit Free Press.

The Shell of the Scallop.

The prominence of the scallop in heraldry has been mentioned. It signifies, when found in a coat-of-arms, or carven upon a mortuary monument, that the person has been a crusatder to the Hol.y Land. In the old days-it was known as St. James’ or —Sfc.Jacob’s shell, and was worn by pilgrims and crusaders, sewn to their garments or fasteiiffdupon tHeu’ stahdards. Many legends cluster about it, and allusions to it are frequent in the poetry and romance of the middle ages, while it often plays a significant part in the religious art of that day. Out of this, and its natural beauty of form, has arisen the wide adaptation of this crenulated or “scalloped” shell in decorative designs in both the painters’ and sculptors’arts:—Once a Week.

Very Amusing.

Second Husband —Are you fond of me as you were of your first husband, dear? Wife—Yes. indeed, and if you were to die I would be just as fond of my third. I’m not a woman to marry for anything but love. —Omaha World.

How It Feels to Drop 3,000 Feet.

"How does it feel to let go of the balloon when you are two or three thousand feet in the air?” said Thomas F. Grinly, the parachute jumper. lam sure I can .not Jell. One comes down so rapidly he hardly has time to analyze his feelings. Macclain, my partner, compares the sensation to that of being upset in the river. We cut loose from the balloon almost mechanically, a,nd before we realize we ore loose, we have shot down a couple of hundred feet, and thereafter the remainder of the descent is easy. It does nbt jar you until when you strike the ground, if you strike on your feet.’ In fact there is less jarring to the system than if you jumped off of a six-foot high fence. Neither is there any appreciable difference in the air to the height which we attain. It Is a great deal purer, though, but not as rarified as you would suppose.—WashTngtOhPiSSL

Big Centipeds.

Denton county, Texas, boasts of ccntlpeds between five and six inches long. - Whenever they come in contact with the human body the flesh decays.

Trout That Reasoned and Remembered.

' “Some time before the death of Seth Green, the celebrated New York fish’ culturist and naturalist,” said a Philadelphian who takes great interest in piscicultural matters,” I paid a visit with him to the fish hatchery of that state at Caledonia. In one of the ponds there at that time there were 5,000 large brook trout, every one of which had been captured with the fly -iifed on barbless hooks—in unfrequented brooks in the Adirondack region. These trout, Mr. Green said, had convinced him that fish have reasoning power and memory. When they were hooked he said, and were reeled slowly in by the careful fishermen who were capturing them for the state pond, they had time and opportunity to note the form and character of the tackle that made them prisoners. According to Mr. Greer, they never forgot that experience. The trout had been in the pond a long time, the females never being allowed to spawn there, and would follow Mr. Green as he walked along the edge of the water, tossing bits of liver into the pond. To show that his theory about the memory and reason was correct he would carry a cane and a fish rod concealed behind his back. If he took the cane from its concealment and held it out over tho water the fish paid no attention to it; but the moment he produced the rod with its reel and line attached away the trout scampered like a flash to distant parts of the pond. Mr. Green told me that he would permit anyone to cast a fly in that pond to his heart’s content, as he was satisfied that not one of the trout would come near it, so vividly did they remember their enemy of live years ago.” Philadelphia Press.

The Samoan Treaty.

The conclusion of the Berlin Conference on Samoan affairs is hailed as eminently satisfactory from the American standpoint. The only particular in which our representatives do not appear to have secured what they were disposed to insist, npnn was with regard to the indemnity claimed for the destruction of German life and property fSS- disturhahces last December on the islands. The demand of the German Commissioners was heavy enough to seriously embarrass the natives, but this our agents would not concede, and the amount was reduced so as to be nominal merely. Jt ought to be nothing at all. The Samoans certainly had beligerent rights and thO Germans should bear losses which they brought upon themselves. Ono gratifying feature of the treaty is that it secures governmental autonomy to tho natives and obviates the need of any extended interference on our part in affairs with which it was a blunder for us ever to have had anything to do. There is to be an advisory council, composed of representatives of the United States, Germany and England, the Englishman only to have a vote in case of disagreement between the two others. Malietoa Ls to be reinstated and a constitutional form of government provided for him to preside over. Courts for the settlement of land questions are to be established. No foreign power is to predominate. ~ 1

■* Let us hope that the matter is now ended, and that it will be the last time this great big Republic is inveigled by insignificant, busy bodies into bothering itself in an international controversy about a little patch of land mom than five thousand mites away in Polynesia and peopled by a small lot of more or less naked savages.—New York World. >

The Swaying of Chimneys

Observations upon tho sway of tall chimneys during high winds show that one 115 in height and four feet in total diameter at the top waved twentyinches during a heavy gale, and another 164 feet high, but with a six and one-half feet diameter of flue, moved through an arc of only six and onehalf inches.

Choosing a Profession-

Pretty Girl—"l have railed, ~sir. to ask if lam beautiful enough for the stage?” Theatrical Manager (kindly)— “No-o, my child, yours is not a good stage face; but don’t despair. You would be a brilliant success as a typewriter.”—New York Weekly.

What He Wanted.

"Is dishea de place wliah dey issues divohses?” asked an old colored man as he peered through the door into the office of the clerk of the court. "Well, uncle, you couldn’t get your divorce-right away.” "Couldn't you make out de papahs now?" "No, are you in a very great hurry to be separated from your wire!”’ "Se’rated! didn t say nuffln 'bout sep’ratin did I? All I wants is to git de papahs. ’Tween you an’ me. 1 h&ln’t got no intention ob servin’ ’em on ’er. I’s just gwine to frame ’em 'an hang 'em on de wall and see if I can’t scyah de ole woman into ’bavin of herse’f. —Merchant Traveler.

Only Her Way.

Westerner—" Yes, sir, I believe it is absolutely impossible to reform a horse-thief.” Easterner--" Nothing easier. Mk« a sailor of him."—New York Weekly.