Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1889 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Sinck sympathy for murderers, became the fashion no life now fai* so well guarded by the law as the man's who has taken another's from him. Superstition lurks in high places. The baby King of Spain is the thirteenth of his name. His mother is in sore trouble about him. She fears ill late may overtake him. Writing a book, painting a picture or bringing up a child are only different ways of doing the some thing, ns in all of them we are influencing mind and shaping character. ’ Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world! —yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world. To toss a loafer a nickel because he quickens his pace and mutters in your ear that he wants one is not charity, and the act of giving will not do you or him any good cither in this world or the next. ‘•The Bard of Avon," as the affected call him, still retains his popularity, especially with the people of this country. More people visited the home of Shakespeare last summer than ever before, the majority being Americans. Prof. Rosenthal, who devised the Meisterschaft system of learning languages. and who speaks fourteen tongues fluently, lias become a naturalized American citizen. His next move will be to attempt to learn pure, un adulterated Ken Uicky. „: If the English would read more widely they would know more. Sir Julian Pauneefote is devoting a good deal of time to the study of American literature. He says that he had no realization of the richness and varietjof tfi-Jwork of our men of letters. A Cleveland chemist says that people who use kerosene lamps for a number of years become so permeate 1 with the oil that their bodies after death scarcely need any embalming fluid to preserve them. That chemist is evidently undertaking to pmbalm himself in lie. ' ' A new style of horseshoe has been patented. The shoo is made in sections, with elastic cushions between and rivets connecting the sections, making a shoe in which there will be a vertical yielding or.spring, avoiding shocks or jar to the horse while traveling over hard pavements or loads. Thk only conclusive evidence ol man's sincerity is that he gave himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, arc comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession oi him. Aleck Smith, of Bull Creek, neat Jeffersonville. Ind., is probably the only farmer in the bnion, perhaps in the world, who devotes all his time and territory to the raising of butter beans. He owns a small place and has on this for years grown the butter bean, realizing a comfortable living therefrom.

: The Rochester Post-Express says;. “The fountain pen is a great institution, but nine out of ten men who are not used to it are utterly lost if they don’t see an inkstand within reasonable ' dipping distance.’’ With nine pen? out of ten the inkstand must be within ' reasonable dipping distance or there will be ho ink. Ax American who spent ninety-twc ' in France says he saw only two Eies in that whole country, and tlyjse ere in Paris and had no upper crust. The pie was about the first thing invented after the Puritans landed in America, and we all believe that it has done its full share towards making this the greatest nation on the globe, i ’ Dr. Meade, of Cincinnati, left his horse untied and it ran away. The doctor sent messages all over town and had about given up all hope of ever peeing his rig again when he was called to the telephone. He recognized the voice of his affianced, and was re-• joined to learn that the animal was : standing patiently in front of her resi- 1 dence. In the olden days, whan heretics' and witches were burned, drowned or flung from cliffs, it never occurred to those engaged in the work to shut a woman and a mouse up together in a small, dark room, with no window sill for bqr to stand on. Perhaps they had no mice in those days, or else they didn’t want to kill their victims all of a sudden. The population of mummies is quite large. Amelia B. Ed wards says nc one need think that the field of Egyptian exploration is limited; it is practically unlimited. Authorities are ol the opinion that in 2,500 years nearly ; <OO million mummies were entombed, and that hundreds of thousands ol buried cities and temples yet remain to be dlsrorared.

DOMESTIC. Influenza has reached Boston. Springfield, 0., has natural gas. Some places in Ohio report influenza. Montana’s legislative muddle continues. Hanlon, the oarsman, challenges the world. Luther county, California, was damaged $250,000 by overflows. Dr. D. Ayers, of Brooklyn, givess2so,ooo to Wesleyan University. \ John W. Bookwaiter of Springfield is a , candidate for the Ohio Senatorship. Two Minneapolis clothing houses have failed because of the warm winter. The body of a woman, badly mutilated, was found in Boston Thursday morning. j A warrant has been issued for Powderly’s arrest in the Callaghan conspiracy case. Doc. Jones, colored, was lynched at Owensboro, Ky., Thursday morning, for murder. j Since 1882 $100,000,000 worth of government timber has been stolen in northern Minnesota. j About twelve miles of electric light wire . was cut down in New York, Saturday, by the authorities. I The New York Mail and Express is making an effort to raise funds to complete the Grant monument. I Mrs Margaret Medill, mother of Joseph Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, died at Canton, 0., Monday. The iron-clad prohibition measure passed both Houses of the North Dakota Legis4ture Wednesday. Jehu Baker has deeided to contest the seat of W. S. Forman, member of uCon. 1 gross from the Belleville (Hl.) district. One thousand four hundred and ten del lars was snatched and stolen from the State National Bank at Pawtucket, Thurs day. i Aiderman Donohne descended from the • bench at Wilkesbarre, Pa., and soundly thrashed a man named Shiner, for wife- : beating. | An effort is being made to bring Jake ■ Kilrain and Vaquelin together. Jake says ! he would like to have another tilt with Sullivan. I A call has been issued for a meeting of ■ the temperance women who favor nonpartisan temperance work at Cleveland, January 22. I A heavy fog greatly interfered with New i York business Friday, but no serious ac_ I cidents were reported. Baltimore reports the same state of affairs. A committee of the Virginia Legislature will visit Mrs. JefferSbn Davis to urge her to permit the remains of her husband to be buried in Richmond. I A. E. Mack, late Secretary of the Arcanum Building, Loan and Homestead Assoi ciation, of Chicago, is missing with about I $7,500 of the association’s money. Max Mantwell was called to his door At Chicago and literally hacked to pieces with aknife. Brano Eberliag, an admirer of Mrs. Mantwell, is under arrest. Milo Ballabasich, mad from a terrible griping in his abdomen, committed suicide at San Francisco, Thursday,by cutting out his intestines and throwing them away. Edward and George Werley and Henry Knecht, prominent young men of Adrian, 0., were sent to' jail for twenty days for driving off another man’s horse as a joke. L Judge Brewer decides that Kansas counties cannot tax Pullman sleepers running through them, as such a proceeding inter seres with the freedom bf interstate com merce.

The Civil Service Reform Association will open an office at New York, with William Dudley Foulke in charge, and go into a general investigation of the country’s civil service. Dr. Edson, of the New York Health Board, Monday reported that there had been discovered in that city several cases of influenza, of the same form as has lately spread over Europe. Thus far eight eases have been reported. A charitable shop lifter was arrested at Kansas City-for stealing. Her name is Maud Curran, and she was one of the supposed. most faithful workers oftwo charit able associations of that city. She had stolen SI,OOO worth of goods. It is said the Illinois railroads are trying to get the contract for the Chicago drainage works, which they will then construct, so that lake vessels caunot reach the gulf through the canal and the Mississippi, as is intended. For stealing $lO from a Chinese laundryman, at Buffalo, Charles Farwell was on Monday sentenced to thirty days in jail. The prisoner is a son of the late Judge Farwell, has already squandered $20,0J0, and has a $60,000 legacy due in a short time. George Guenther, .aged seventy years was fatally beaten by his son, Emil Guenther, at St. Louis, Tuesday. The boy bears a bad reputation, and is but seven teen years old. The quarrel arose over the refusal of his mother to furnish him with money. John Gallagher died at Butte, Mont, Tuesday, from the effects of a fight on Sunday morning. G. H. Warte and Gallagher had a difficulty and agreed to this mode of settlement. They fought for 105 rounds. Gallagher was frightfully pounded.

The Columbus Press, Thursday, published interviews with sixty very prominent Democrats who stoutly oppose the election of Brice, or any other millionaire to the United States Senate. The list in eludes Allen W. Thurman and W. W. Medary. The jury in the casa of Miss Flora Look, who has been on trial at Montezuma, la. on the vharge of killing a man engaged in a charivari serenade in Chester, Powe sheik county, last August, has returned a verdict of acquittal on the ground that the homicide was justifiable. Governor Wilson, of West Virginia, has ssued a proclamation calling a spccia session of the Legislature to convene on the third Wednesday in January, and specifying thirty three matters on which legislation may be enacted. The most important one is the settlement of the contest between A. B. Fleming and Nathan Goff for the office of Governor. Mrs. Joseph G. Can nos, wife of Hon. J. G. Cannon, was found dead in her bed at 6 o'clock, Monday morning, at Danville 111. The deceased was la her usual health ij. ofgM previous, and retired at

— . Miss Mabel, the yflunger daughter, going I to Chicago at that time. Word was sent t Mr. Cannon in Washington,and he arrived Tuesday. Mrs. Cannon was forty-nine years of age, and was an untiring worker in the M. E. Church, of which she was a member. She was also engaged in all benevolententerprises of thecity and county. Nelson Jones, of Valdosta, Ga., is being pursued to death by White Caps. Some time ago be was attacked by a band near the Florida line, and left for dead. He was discovered by friends, and was being nursed back to life, when another attack was made on him, Friday. This time a volley of buckshot was fired at him, while lying in bed, but only four or five of the missiles entered his body. He thinks he will five to furnish another target for his would be assassins. FOREIGN. An attempt was made to kill the King of Corea. The Czar refuses to recognize the Brazilian Republic. The British barque Tenby Castle was wrecked in the Irish sea, off Holyhead, Tuesday and eleven of her crow were drowned. There are 3,000 cases of influenza in Hamburg, 5,000 in Stockholm, and many Senators, Deputies and others in Madrid are ill. Emin Pasha, who was injured by falling from a window at Bagamoyo, is entirely out of danger and is making rapid progress towards full recovery. The influenza epidemic is spreading in Central and Southern Germany. A large number of cases are reported in Munich, Mayence, Cassel and Leipsic. At the Queen University jubilee banquet, at Kingston, Ont., Wednesday night, Sir John Macdonald spoke strongly against any severance of the British connection. It is reported that many persons area Tiflis who have been exiled from Erze roum by orders from Constantinople in consequence of their being suspected of having given information of the Armenian atrocities.