Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The till® of Henry M. Stanley’* forthcoming book will be “The Darkest Africa; the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin.” A Philadelphia dentist advertises that his false teeth lit so snugly and so perfect that they ache and hurt just like natural teeth.

Oregon is thought to be one of the young states, and it has been in the union for yet thirty-one years. Thed istaut sister has not made much impression on the sisterhood.

The Mexican demand for American hogs is gradually increasing. The duty is now $2.50 per head, but dealers are trying to get the duty N modified to so much per pound instead of per head.

“The biography and letters of Sarah Bernhardt, 1884-188!),” by an old and well known military officer, is soon to appear in Paris. The book is to contain a preface written by a man now dead.' Ella Wheeler Wilcox recently gave a reception in New York at which the conversation throughout the eveZ ning was in the French language. The only things there to the manner born were the guests.

The North Dakota legislature made a law compelling all non-resident newspaper publishers seeking hews in that territory to appoint a resident agent on whom process may be served in actions at law.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, ono of those enviable veterans who do not lag superfluous on tho stage, has left for Europe, to live henceforth in London, near her daughter and her clever son Theodore Stanton. General Sherman confesses that he tikes tho bands to play “Marching Through Georgia” in his honor. He was surprised by hearing the tune as a serenade when he visited Ireland, and was surprised to learn that it was an ancient Irish air. Pennsylvania seems to have a claim on the Russian Mission. Charles Emory Smith is the seventh minister from that state to the court at St. Petersburg, his predecessors having been Messrs. Boker, Curtin, Cameron, Dallas, Wilkins, and Buchanan.

When General Alger goes out to the Pacific coast this summer on his tour of inspection Mrs. Logan, widow of General Logan will accompany him as the guest of Mrs. Alger. Like a nemesis, but not of evil, in all hi? walks, his ambitions, she will be the geu•ral’s Logaq, The veil has always been an important adjunct to the toilette of a woman, and just uow, when lovely woman stoops to folly and looks upon the rouge when it is red, the strip of illusion becomes more than ever a necessity. A veil is a coquetry to a pretty girl, a charity to an ugly one. In Germany women physicians, however well qualified, have no legal standing, and are forbidden to sign a prescription. No matter what their attainments, they are only regarded as dabblers (Kurpfuscher). Thoughtful German women, however, are beginning to put in a plea fof* women doctors.

Switzerland proposes to hold at Lausanne in June a fair that will present specimens of all known alimentary substances, taking in breads, confectioneries, pastries, cooked dishes, vegetables, groceries, preserves, chocolates and so on through all that tho hum m stomach knows. Can anything more comprehensive be couceived,

1 , - ' ...» —! — One of the best shooting territories in this country east of the Rocky Mon ntains is found in and near the Okifinokee swamp, which covers a large area in Charlton, Ware and Clincii counties, Georgia, and Baker county, Fla. It includes numerous lakes, the haunt of wild fowl, and forests of timber, the abode of large and small game in great profusion. a The election of Mrs. Charles D. Hair.es as president of the Haines Medina-Valley Railroad company, the line of road now being built between Lacoste and C&stroville, Tex., places for the first time in the history of railroad building in America a lady as president of & ateam railroad. Mrs. Haines is tbe wife of the senior member of the firm of Haines Bros., the Short Line railway builders of Flew York.

A PHOTOGRAPHER at Warren, Pm, lowered a camera into an oil well which bad been torpedoed at the depth of 1,700 feet, and by springing a magnesium Hash light succeeded in getting. a 'ood picture of the chamber made by the explosion of the torpedo. The success of this photograph!o experiment suggests the thought that by a similar method a view might be secured ol some of the ‘'bottomless pits” of the Mammoth Case and other great oavantc *

A negro was lynched at Mari am oa, Fla., on the 25th. Maryland proposes to prohibit pool soiling at races. The Sooners have been bounced from the Cherokee Strip. A wholesale arrest iof freight car thieves has been made at St. Paul. Whitelaw Reid, U. S, Minister to France arrived in New York on the 36th. Pioneer, Ohio, a village of 1300 people, was distroyed by fire on the 36th. The Treasurer of Maryland is charged with misappropriating State funds. The Standard Company has bought out its competitor, the Lima Oil Company. Fifty families have established a cooperative boarding house at Decatur, IIL The Chicago Board cf Trade will discontinue furnishing quotations after April IstChinese women are being surreptitiously shipped to New York from San Francisco. Mrs. Giles, an abandoned wife in New York, on the 26th cut off her hand and bled to death.

The trotting stallion May King has been sold to Sibley & Miller, of Frankfort, Pa., for $30,000. Mrs. Nat C. Goodwin, inafitof jealousy, tried to commit suicidfe with carbolic acid at St. Louis. George W. Peck, the humorist, was on the 24th nominated for Mayor* by the Democrats of Milwaukee. Oneof the new war vessels of the United Stats Navy is named theCencord. It will help keep the peace. • •

James W. Myers, a veteran soldier, an his little grandchild were buried in one grave at Tiffin, 0., on the 4th. An agent of an English syndicate is in Danville, Va., trying to buy eight of the largest tobacco factories there. An explosion in the Chicago Sugar Re fining Company’s plant on the 28 tn killed three men and injni-ed ten others. The big rat, mice, sparrow and hawk hunt, Benton, 0., has ended in the bagging of 7,111 head of theso pests. An epidemic of fatal happenings an murders is prevailing in Colorado. Ten violent deaths were reported on the 25th alone. ...• ; ——

Rev. R. F. Sbinn, pastor of tho Congregational church, in Norris, 111., dropped dead in his pulpit at the close of Sunday’s service. Fire in the business portion of Laredo Tex., on Monday morning, destroyed SIOO,000 worth of property. Partly covered by insurance. Kilrain’s convict services having been purchased by Charles Rich, on whose plan--ation the Sullivan fight took place, the ex-champion is in for two months of ease. Ex-City Treasurer John A- Davis, of Rochester, N. Y„ pleaded guilty on the 27tli to embezziemont. He was sentenced to five cyears in prison. His shortage amounted to $60,777.13. The Massachusetts House refused to adopt a resolution protesting against the imposition of duty on raw hides. The resolution was adopted by a rising vote, but on roll call was defeated—99 to 91. The Presidents of the County Farmers’ Alliances of Kansas met Tuesday and declared against the rc-elec tion of Senator John J. Ingalls. Sixty counties, repres - enting 140,000 votes, were present at the meeting. A Chicago paper says Tuesday tha trouble is brewing among the glass manufacturers of the country, and that their numbers uro likely to be divided. It is said that every glass manufacturer in the country has ceased making goods. Mr s. Frank Kent, a Chicago widow on the 25th, publicly horsewhipped U. S. Commissioner Simon W. King. She grabbed him by the whiskers and held him while she vigorously applied the lash. She accuses him of circulating false reports about her. The Susquehanna Coal Company posted notices on the 24th that from April 1 the company’s mines at Nanticoke win ~work~ full time during tho whole season. The five thousand miners who have been on the verge of starvation for months are nearly wild with joy, and every humble home in Nanticoke is a place of thankfulness and happiness.

Mont Clair, N. J., reports a case of Dr. Jekeyl and Mr. Hyde. James Tuthiel came their five years ago. He connected himself with the church and joined several social clubs. During the day he was a very respectable business man. It now developes that at night he was a veiy common bui'glar, and Ills arrest followed. The cellar of his house was filled with the booty of his night raids. His pretty wife is under arrest as an accessary.

An intimation was received a few days ago by Mr. Charles Fliut the representative of this country from New York, from the representatives of tho South American countries in the Pan-American, that their countries might be willing to givecomplete reciprocity in everything, provided this country would do the same. The whole situation was talked over with Mr. Blaine, and the outcome of it was that the repre sentatives qf this country were authorized, in the name of the secretary of State and with his approval of the scheme, to make a proposition of absolute reciprocity to the

representatives of the South American conntries. The adoption of the plan would bring about absolute free trade in every article of commerce between the United States anu the South American countries. The Republicans of lowa are having a very perceptible effect, upon the Republican members of the committee by demanding that there shall bo no reduction of the internal taxes so tong as any duty on sugar is retained. The lowa people are apparently solid for free sugar. Thoy might be content with tho repeal of tba whole sale and retail license of the tax on tobacco but they are unalterably opposed to any reduction of the tobacco tax in other forms. Major Conger, who represents the Des Moines district, said to your correspondent Thursday: “The lowa delegationia-snlid. ly opposed io any reduction whatever of the Internal taxes. We will fight to tho last any modification of the tobacco taxes. W® will also fight for free auger. Thor two propositions we are solid upon, and : do not see how we oan keep lowa Repub licau if we reduce the internal revenue taxes and keep up a sugar duty. We have been giving too much protection to the lar?

interests and too little attention to the common consumers.” FOREIGN. The liberty of Finlanders is seriously threatened by the despotic ruler of Russia. A meat famine is impending in Paris The wholesale butchers threaten to close the abattoirs if their demands concerning the importation of foreign c-attia ar ft not granted. General Boulanger has written a letter in which he renews his promise to return to France provided the Government will permit him to be tried by the Court of Appeals or by a court martial. Dispatches from Crete say that at Paliama, on Sunday, a priest was dragged from his pulpit and paraded through the street amid the jeers of the mob. Sixty four of the villagers are starving in prison. Mr. Balfour introduced an Irish land purchase bill in Commons on Monday night. It proposes to amalgamate the five bodies now having control over the valuation and sale of lands into one. The bill is very complicated. Parnell opposes it. The Standard says it is ingenious. The Pall Mall Gazette pronounces it abomin able.

A Paris, dispatch states that a young Parisian artist, Jules Renaud, has killed himself, in Algiers, because Amelia RivesChandler Jilted him while they were studying together in Paris. Her rebuff failed to dampen his ardor. He followed her to Algiers, renewed Tiis courtship and received his final conge last Friday, when, he destroyed himself, leaving a sensational letter asking for sympathy. Renaud had remarkable talent. ■ Price®Bismarck has deposited all his stars, crosses and medals in the Reich bank. The jeweler s estimate of their value is £5,000. The Prince retails the order of the Golaen Fleece and that of the Black Eagle. “No more uniforms or medals for me,” the veteran statesman is reported to have said; “you have forced me into retirement, where I shall wear a frock coat and only heed my iron cross.”: Prince Bismarck will leave Berlin for Friederichsruh on Thursday. He said to an interviewer, Tuesday: “You will never see me in Berlin again.” All the Generals oftheaEmy-stationed ißrßei-lin and vicinity hye paid him farewell visits. -