Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

.From the foundation of the world mankind, in one form of exertion or another, has sought to acquire the art of creating something from nothing. ; There is a Latin name for every >ird, beast, reptile and insect, except -he polly-wog. For some, reason they lidn’t get hold of him, or it was deeded that he was Latin enough without anything extra.

? Ip it be true as reported that President Harrison over in Virginia mistook a pig for a raccoon and shot it, Jbe still has a valid excuse for the mistake. Virginia pigs are the only kind that can climb trees. * 11 * 11 ' A century of life is so rarely attuned that some skeptics have denied that there is any authentic record ol age so advanced. Without taking this extreme ground it may be safely said jthat there are fewer genuine cases jthan reported. r! It has been found in Ohio that as Insane asylums multiply in number insanity becomes more prevalent. Raise a big poor fund and paupers will become more numerous, but it is queer that people should go crazy in order to fill up asylums.

1 Trusts contain in themselves the elements of their own destruction. They were organized to suspend the law of competetion and grind the faces es the poor. As their stocks dwindle and collapse on the market the public will shed no tears. Mr. Edward Bellamy wishes to reform society so as to make women independent of men for their means oi support. The title husbands of American heiresses will not object provided he does not disturb the dependence of husbands on the fortunes of their rich wives.

Mr. Gladstone speaks frequently in the open air with bis hat on, but seldom or never feels any bad effects. He attribtites this immunity from cold to the fact that while on his farm at Hawarden be has been accustomed to chop and do other out-door work bareheaded. It is estimated that Americaus have sunk $80,000,000 in Mexico in the last two “years in mining and farming speoulations, but you have only to form -a company, put out a circular 'about a rich old hole in the ground dug by the Aztecs, and there will be plenty to subscribe. Under the blue laws of Connecticut, had a boy “plunked” an aged citizen with a snowball, or had John Henry advised an elder of the church to come off the perch, the results would have been so terrifying as to have been vividly remembered every hour in the day for a lifetime. Unless you are learned iu the science of political economy you will probably rate it a human thwarting ol the purposes of a bountiful Providence that many a poor wretch should be pinched with hunger in a country where some of the farming states are burning corn for fuel.

The Washington woman who defends decollette dresses err the ground that they cost less than high-necked garments takes rather a short-sighted view of the matter. Decollette dresses come lower, to be sure, but the womam who defends them forgets that in the long run they involve extra expense for porous plasters. The sphere of woman continues to enlarge. The latest evidence to this effect comes from Connecticut where a young woman has just been given a license as a dispensing druggist. It deserves to be added that she not only got her license, but she passed the! best examination that has yet been had before the examining board. Browning died and Tennyson will pass away just in “the nick of time’’ to get in the corner with Shakespeare and the other famous bards. A London item says : Robert Browning is likely to be the last of the English men of letters (save Tennyson) who will find a grave in Westminster Abbey. The interment of any more bodies there is opposed on sanitary grounds. It is the positive but not altogethei disinterested opinion of physicians and undertakers that people are nevei buried alive, except during epidemics, when burials are necessarily performed with great haste. The change o! position in the coffin which a deac body sometimes makes after burial is attributed to the generation within it of gases which by greatly bloating it sometimes turn it entirely over. There is always great room foi eloquence upon a subject containing sc many qualities of greatness as does the history of New England. But it would be far more satisfactory, and far more valuable, if some of this oratory could be turned to a careful consideration o; he problems of the present and th< future, rather than give it entirely u praise of the great deeds of men wh< have long since passed over to thi majority.'

DOMESTIC. The census Will begin June 1. _ Denver saloont must close on Sunday. Peach trees are in bloom at Dover, Dela ware. _ „ Local option was defeated at Lynchburg Va., Tuesday. Sullivan and Jackson will fight in California for f 15,000. There is a deadlock in the lowa House of Representatives. A land sale of 14,258 acres has just been consummated in Michigan. - -Large numbers of NortlrCafolina negroes are moving in wagons to Oklahoma. Ex-Governor Poster was nominated for Senator by the Ohio Republican caucus. The Australian election law has been introduced in the Maryland Legislature. The New York Legislature proposes to erect a $200,000 monument at Gettysburg. Senator Allison was Thursday unani' mously nominated by the lowa Republican caucus. Six murderers were legally hanged at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, Thursday. They were Indians. S. E. Olsen & Co., of Minneapolis, were Thursday night robbed of $2,000 in furs and •ewelry.

The Johnstown Flood Commission reports the distribution of $1,500,000, witfi $200,000 still on hand. The Little Wabash River at Carmi, Ills., has been on a flood, and 300 families were compelled to leave their homes. The Keatuoky State Senate passed the bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to boys under eighteen years of age. There is talk of a new company, backed by English capital and supported by Pennsylvania producers, to fight Standard oil. Frederick Baldwin and his cousin, Mrs. Pettiperre, of Connecticut, claim to be heirs to a $4,000,000 estate in San Franjisco. A fire caused $1,000,000 damage at Balti more Monday night by the destruction of an elevator and two vessels. Three lives were lost. Hon. John Lawrence died at Newark, Ohio, Thursday. This is the second death in the Ohio Legislature since the opening of the session. A new four-hundred room hotel will be erected at a cost of $1,000,000, in Chicago, at the oomer of Dearborn, Quincy and Jackson streets. Many farms in southern Illinois nro al

most submerged with water. Thousands of bushels of corn in that part of the State remain ungathered. The Supreme Court of South Carolina has granted a new trial to Father Boyle, the Catholic priest convicted of rape and sentenced to be hanged. James M. Fortner, defaulting treasurer of Riley county, Kansas, and the woman in the case were arrested at Memphis Wednesday. He is short $40,000. A tornado Sunday night struck the east side of the eity oi Clinton, Ky., demolishing fifty-five houses and killing eleven people and wounding fifty-three. Lyman Abbott was Friday installed as pastor of Plymouth (Beecher’s) church. This is the second installation that ever took place in that famous church. John L. Moore, conductor on a Chicago street oar, was fatally shot by George Jordan, a negro, because he gave him twenty-five one cent pieces in change. John Marshall Stone was inaugurated Governor of Mississippi. He urged a conthe convict contract labor system. Billy Murphy, Australia’s feather-weight champion, Monday night at San Francisco, knocked out Ike Weir, the Belfast Spider, in fourteen rounds. The stakes were $2,500 a side.

The Maryland Senate and House met in joint session at Annapolis Tuesday and reelected Ephraim K. Wilson (Dem.) United States Senator for the term of six years, beginning March 4,1891. The Ohio Wool Growers’ Association met at Columbus Tuesday and adopted resolutions demanding protection for the wool industry, and issued an address to the people of the United States. Henry Hinton, ex-Judge and ex-confi-dential manager of the late Alexander T. Stewart, is going to surrender $5,000,000 to the contesting heirs in order to stop all further legal proceedings. Employes in the Havernill (Mass.) shoe factories insisted on deciding methods and prices of work under threat of striking. The employers would not have it, and the nine great shoe shops shut down. Three thousand men are out. The California Fruit Union adopted a memorial to Congress Friday requesting that the duty on prunes be increased from 1 cent to 3 cents per pound, and that the present duty on raisins, nuts and olives be not reduced. The Farmers’ Alliance of lowa, Thursday, adopted resolutions endorsing Hon. William Larrablee for United States Senator as against Senator Aliison. It is intimated that Allison will have some trouble in securing re-election. The first bill passed by the legislature of South Dakota—to provide for refunding the indebtedness of the state—was signed by the Governor Wednesday afternoon, both Houses adjourning for five minutes to celebrate the event, loud cheering and exchange of congratulations being followed by a fervent prayer by the chaplain.

Within a short time the Star of Bethle hem will be visible, making its seventh appearance since the birth of Christ. It oomea once in 315 years, and is of wondrous brilliance for three weeks, then it wanes and disappears after seventeen months. It yrill be a sixth star added to the five fixed stars in constellation Gas- > siopeia while it remains in sight. Mrs. Calvin S. Brice, whose husband was nominated for the United State Senate by the Ohio Democracy, was formerly .Miss Olivia Meßly, a teacher in the Terre . Haute public schools. In the class exercises of ’O7, the first class to be graduated from j the Terre Hants high ocfaool, Miss Meilly contributed a poem, “The Weavers of LHe," which was highly commended. It is ■ said that no-teacher ever went from the >pnbhc schools of that city mere warmly cherished ia memory than she. v Blast furnace No. 4, In operation at the 1 invis Steel Onaapaay’s vmrhaat

Chicago, exploded Friday afternoon, resulting in the death of one and the serious injury of four others. Edward Johnson, fifty years old, was terribly burned externally and badly injured injured internally. He was placed in a petrol wagon, but died while on the pray to his home. John Johnson, Frank Brtnk, Joseph Leonard and Joseph Christian were badly burned about the head and body. Many others were scalded by the molten metal, but their injuries are not serious. The accident was caused by water coining into contact with the hot iron. Dispatches from different points in Kan sas rerort a blizzard in that State. At Wichita ten inches of snow fell, and for a hundred miles west the storm raged With fury, and the whole country is covered with snow to the d epth of a foot or more. Railroad trains are laid up at several places, and traffic is practically suspended. Intense suffering is reported in the dssti tute districts in several Of the western counties. There are forty or more cars with provisions at the town of Liberal, en route to the suffers, but that is fifty to seventy miles away from the starving people, and no one is willing to take the chances of freezing by hauling the freight in wagons. The temperature is not very low, but the mercury is falling and severe cold is apprehended.

Bishop Turner favors negro emigration IHe says: The white people brought us hero against our will. Now they ought to provide for us to leave if we desire. Besides we must work oiir destiny anyhow, and if a portion of us think we can do it better elsewhere, let the nation help us to try it. If the bill meant compulsory ex patriatoin I would fight to the death, but as it is voluntary upon the part of the negro let it pass as soon as possible. The negro at best is but a scullion here, and he can be no less in Africa. lam tired of negro problems, lynch laws, mob rule and a continual fuss, and a million other negroes are tired of it. We want peace at some period in our existence, and if we cannot have it'here where we were born and reared, let that portion of us who chose to try another section of the world have a little help. The Naval Board "of Policy, appointed to formulate a plan for the building of a navy commensurate with the dignity and power of the nation, in their report to the Secretary of the Navy, will recommend the construction of ninety-two vessels of different types and sizes; these will be built, according to the plan of the board, in fourteen years, and will cost, together with their maintenance during the fourteen years, $280,000,000. They say that the cost of maintenance of a ileet of vessels such as they propose would bo only one-quarter that of keeping up the same number of old style vessels. The scheme of the board comprises thei following vessels, the estimated cost of which, with armament complete, is appended: Ten battle ships of 5,000 tons, $5,000,000 each; eight of 8,000 tons, $5,000,000 each ; twelve of 7,000 tons, $4,500,000 each; five of 0,000 tons, $3,600,000 each; ten rams of 3,500t0n5, $1,800,000 each; nine armored cruisers of 6,500 tons, to make nineteen knots an hour, $3,600,000 each; four protected cruisers of 7,400 tons, tomake twenty-two knots an hour, $3,500, 000 each; nine protected cruisers of 5,404' tons, to make twenty knots an hour, $2,800,000 each; two protected cruisers of 4,000 tons, to make nineteen knots an hour $2,050,000 each; five special cruisers of 1,200 tons, to make eignteen knots an hour, $500,000 each; fifteen torpedo cruisers of 900 tons, to make twenty-two knots as. hour, $500,000 each; three artificers’ ship*, $2,000,000 each. The eight ships which Secretary Tracy recommends in his repor shall be begun at once are not the eight proposed by the hoard, but eight of the first ten.

INFLUENZA NOTES. The grip is abating in New York. Influenza is spreading in Mexiee. It is said in Cnicag j Tuesday that 30,97 T school children have la grippe. Peter Henderson, the famous seedsman, died at New York Friday of grip. Thomas C. Ashton, Senator in the Okie* Legislature, died at Columbus, Friday, of pneumonia superinduced by la grippe. This is the third death in-tbat-body since its convening. FOREIGN. It is rumored that the Czar is losing hi mind. Lord Napier, baron of Magdala, died of influenza Thursday. The Jews are proposing to erect a magnificent synagogue at Rome. The funeral of the Socialistediter Weddrt at Hamburg, Tuesday, was attended bj 01,000 persons. It is declared in Berlin that Edward Schnitzer (Emin; has left big stores of ivory in care of reliable ohieis. ArtoSa Brotuers, foreign bankers, with houses in London, Paris and .Madrid, have been declared bankrupts. Tneir liabilities are £400,000.

The Khedive gave a banquet last nigbt in honor of Henry M. fcjiuuley. The Khedive’s ministers and a umuber of n». tives were the only guests. Heury M. Stauiey and Uis party did x not stop over at Sue/,, as it was reported they would, but proceeded for Cairo where they arrived Tuesday morning. They wort greet* d upou taeir arrival there by General Sir Frauuis D. Grenfel, commander of the Egyptian troops, and Sir Evelyn Baring, the British Consul-General. The New York Suns say: “Look outfor new kind of coffee that is not coL fee. Some clever Frenchman at tn* Island -of lleuniou have discovered that the fruit of the wild orange that grows there has the aroma of ttve coffee bery. As n costs less to raise the wild orange than regular coffee naturally the planters are substituting the former for the latter, ond the government, even, has ordered that the great part of the highlands on the island be reserved for* the cultivation of the now bogus coffee. One bright gleam on the coffee horizon is in the fact ti al the new berry will bo so cheap that It will, if its culture succeeds, drive out chicory, and as au adulterant it is sa*d to be much leas vue than that staple coffee oheapeuer."