Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

• The steward of a New York club has invented a new sandwich. It is feared that it is an infringement on the Goodyear patents. In nearly all the European countries the government has either an entire Enopoly of the tobacco business or 3 raise large sums by way of excess 1 customs duties. The influence of a good caricature, whether for good or evil, is only fully appreciated by those who have been its victims. They only are familiar with its oorroding bitterness. A successful dairyman for many years gives it as his conclusion that a well-fed cow that does not earn her entire value in a single year is not worth keeping in the dairy. < There has been so much smuggling into New York of late by vessels coming through Hell Gate and along the sound that Uncle Sam is going to patrol the sound with two revenue cutters. Heil Gate has long needed a patrol. Stanley discovered an extension of a lake, a range of mountains, an t almost impenetrable forest, numerous tribes of hostile Africans, and tons of elephant tusks in the heart of the dark continent. The tusks are valuable. » =========== . Ar is probable that all other causes put together are not so prolific of diworce among the class in which it commonly takes place, as the fact that Mb women are brought up on novels of * tow grade as their habitual and aknoat only reading. Ar would seem impossible for any candid mind to discover in a service of Ive years in our army, sufficient cause lor the discontent that would account for the numerous desertions constantly taking place, and, in truth, it does not he with the army, but rather with the men.

Fortune hunting is not confined to the male branch of humanity. It is equally a failure with the gentler sex. And it must be confessed, if the observer of the drift of society is to record the truth, that women carry fortune and title hunting to a greater extreme than their brethren. Russia, although in many respects a semi-barbarous nation,is making steady progress in civilization. The announcement is made that the infliction of corporal punishment on peasants is to bo abolished in the Baltic provinces. It has been the custom to employ the lash for petty offenses or as a means of extracting rent or taxes. Tr is undeniable that, outside of a certain limited class of scholarly and thoughtful people, the great majority of all who read anything except the newspapers, read books of this description. The statistics of popular and circulating libraries show that seventyfive per cent of all the books taken out are novels of recent production. The popular but highly erroneous notion that nut trees are very difficult to transplant has been the bugbear that has kept back many from planting nuts. Nut trees may be transplanted as safely and as readily as any other tree with ordinary care but it is better to grow your own trees in the nursery than to transplant wild trees from the woods. -—The Chinamen in New York are threatening to depart utterly out of the great Babel and to form a new community just on the outskirts, because their landlords in Mott stree t- are raising their rents. They are quite capable of carrying out their threat and. establishing a town ol several thousand persons, “heathen Chinee” in everything. Americans are far behind the Europeans in the matter of selection, planting and caring for street trees in our large cities and rural districts. Greater interest has been taken in this work, however, during the past few years, and there is every hopeful sign that our roadsides will in time be as beautiful as some of the famous streets and avenues of the older countries ol Europe. . The time was when every cultivated man needed to have the gift of learning. The Egyptian of the hieroglyphic era who could not trace on papyrus or the walls of a tomb, the pictured story of his race was as clearly illiterate as is the man who to-day cannot read. Yet this art, as a matter of daily use, is as clearly among thoss lost, as is that Jot swathing mummies and preserving them for ail times. There has been a great deal of mystery thrown around the culture of the filbert and one has been led to believe that much skill and knowledged is required in the matter of training and pruning the bush to attain any degree es fruitfulness. It is true that the successful cultivation of this nut does largely depend upon its pruning and training but it is certainly not beyond the skill of any ordinary gardener or Indeed of anyone who has intelligence enough to properly prune and train a grape vine.

DOMESTIC. Randall is much better. There were two legal hangings in Loui ; siana, Friday. General Israel Vodges, U. S. A., retired died at New York, Tuesday. Diptheria is almost epidemic at Marl boro, Mass. The scnools are closed. t Oliver Johnson, the noted editor and abolitionist, died at Brooklyn, Tuesday. Mrs. Scott-Lord, sister of Mrs. Benj. Harrison, died at Washington, Tuesday. A band of faith healers near Tuscola, 111., were severely • beaten and driven away. Whitney & Cd., dry goods commission merchants, of New York, failed for $500,000 Monday. At New Haven, Ky., Tuesday, Wm. Johnson, aged 12J shot and killed Tommie Ford, aged 14. . , It is charged that a plot was in operation to kill one of the Cronin jury that the case might be delayed. The postoffice at Salisbury, Mo., was blown to pieces Tuesday night, it is believed by burglars. The U. S. commission has failed in its negotiations with the Cherokees for the sale of the Cherokee outlet. A gang of eleven river pirates was cap tured at Cairo, 111. They were guilty of robbing stores and residences. The Louisville Board of Trade refuses to endorse subsidies for a steamship line between Tampa and Aspinwall. One thousand Lynn workmen have registered as out of work. Thirty-seven thousand dollars has been contributed to relieve sufferers. _. T. R, Adams, manager of the ranch of the Milwaukee & Wyoming Co., at Chey • enne, stole 115,000 of his firm’s money and, Friday, disappeared with his newly-made bride. Dennis Donahue, a character at Madi son, Wis., is dead. Denny used to amuse pebple by swallowing live reptiles, knives and other indigestible substances for the price of a drink. A post-mortem was made and in his stomach was fbund five jack-knives, one with the blades open. The Butler (Pa.) Torpedo Company’s glycerine magazine exploded, Tuesday, and shook the town from center to circumference. Two men and a team were blown to atoms. Apart of one of the men was taken from the top of a tree. The factory building was totally demolished. The two men killed were loading glycerine, and it is believed one of them let a can fall.

The steamship Ems arrived at New York Tuesday, after a very stormy voyage across. Terrific waves washed the deck from bow to stern, and the sailors found It almost impossible to perform their duties. T 1 e passengers were required to re main below. Not however, until two of them were caught by a big wave, dashed egainst the deck fixtures, one receiving a fractured leg, and the other an arm. Two children were born on the passage. The storm raged forty-two hours, during a large part of which time the vessel was engulfed in successive waves. Considerable damage was done. FOREIGN. Emin Pasha is improving. Cholera has revived at Bagdad. Dom Pedro will go tojvladrid Dec. 21. Germany has been having a heavy snow Itorm. Influenza is spreading throughout Ger ftiany. Emperor 'William has been visiting at Frankfort. Robert Browning, the poet, died at Venice, Thursday. Dom Pedro refuses to be pensioned by the Brazilian Republic. Printers throughout German Switztrlatd are on a strike. Fifteen hundred Saxon dyers are on a »trike for higher wages. English insurance companies lost £l6O, WO by the recent Boston fire. All Zanzibar is engaged in feting Mr. Stanley and the members of his expedition In view of the possible intervention of France, which could but result in serious International complications between tbai Republic and Great Britain, Lord Salis bury has requested to be furnished with full information setting forth the ques tious in dispute between Dominion Govern me nt and the French-Canadian people; the equity of such demands as may have been set up and what measures may have been taken to adjust them. The political atmosphere in Canada is anything but . reassuring just now, and an open rupture between the two nationalities is not beyond the range of possibility.