Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Mss. Stonewall Jackson has applied for a pension as the widow of a Mexican war veteran. The Minnesota twins are now oalled by some of the papers, “Mine-Paul.” Such a combination is enough to apolis. - ’ ' New York seems of the opinion that had Columbus known Chicago would, get the Fair he wouldn’t have discovered America. A storm tower is to be erected at the top of Mount Penn, overlooking Reading, Pa. It will be 1,100 feet above the sea level. : ~ ; A scientist says cows’ milk can readily be reduced to a powder and that it will be greatly superior to condensed milk. There will be a new element in the population of tho next census. The Chinese will he enumerated for the first time in this country. Lord Bulwer lit on this superb aphorisms “A fresh mind keeps the? body fresh. Take in the ideas of today; drain off those of yesterday. Amatkdr harpists are increasing at a great rate in New York fashionable circles, and there are indications that the accomplishment is to be a “fad.” North Carolina has quite a war burden to carry. In the slate 1,200 disabled soldiers draw pensions and 2,800 widows. This is an example of local patriotism. Mr. Kerr, of Yakima county, \Vashlngton, has sent to Japan for a large quantity of tea cuttings. He intends to see what can be done with that plant in his own country. Rt. Rev. Mgr. La Belle, minister of agriculture of the dominion of Canada, is the only Roman catholic bishop in the world holding a cabinet office under a secular government, The curious discovery has been made that every governor of lowa since 1859 is alive, and hale and hearty, and the only democrat among them is the present executive. Mr. Gladstone’s new daughter-in-law, Mrs. Her.ry Gladstone, is not only young and’handsome, but accomplished in music and languages. She is an admirable performer on the All of the bank note currency of the Italian government is engraved and printed in the United Stateß. The notes are neat, but small, resembling somewhat the fractional notes issued in war times. Prince Eugene of Sweden has passed two years in Paris studying arl under the direction of M. Henri Gervex. .The latter has just had conferred upon him the Cross of a Chevalier ol the Order of St Olaf. One of the exhibits in the Paris Saloon this season will be the portrait o! Minister Reid, by the artist G. P. A •Healy. It is said to be more flattering than many of the portraits drawn o! Mr. Reid in this country. An absolutely well bred man will not smoke when walking with a lady land is more particular about those ol Jhis own family than any others. Th« (breeding that shows itself in courtesies Ito strangers only is a very poor sort o! veneer. ! Recently the jail at Moulton, lowa, :had a hole torn in the roof by lightning, through which five prisoners (escaped. Nothing providential about (that. They ought to thank God all ithe same—every ono of them—unless caught again. Some of the most recent new uses o! electricity are for purifying sea watei And sewerage and for improving distilled spirits. An English electrician has found that electricity softens some .wines by removing the excess of bitartrate of pot tsh. ■ A Those who like to be moved bj waves of patriotism will be glad t< learn that the first American Union flag was unfurled on January 1, 1776, over the camp at Cambridge. It had thirteen stripes of white and red, anc retained the British cross in one cor ner.

' A prisoner in Bohemia recently constructed a watch eight centimeton i (8J inches) in diameter, with no tooh or materials except two needles, a ,spool of thread, a newspaper and som< rye straw. The wheels, posts and ; oogpareof rye straw; the watch runs six hours without winding and keeps good time. ‘ The great monsters of mecnanica skill and genius call for the sacrifice of a great life and limb in their con struction. The greater the engineerlog feat the more extensive is the lost of life. In the construction of th* Eiffel Towor for instance, twenty-sit lives wero lost, while on the the grea Forth bridge in, Scotland a list of forty lives lost bee been published.

Kansas will quarantine against all eat; •tie. The Union Pacific in three months has earned $1,864,669 net. A tornado visited Gerone county, Ala., nine people being killed. Gen. Stiles, the distinguished Chicago lawyer, has lost his sight, A child having a set of perfectly devel oped teeth was born at Springfield, O. Miss Lena Woodruff, of Appleton, Wis., was robbed of S7OO while on a train Chicago bound. One thousand seven hundred and twenty nine foreigners landed at New York Thursday. An explosion of a boiler at the Etna 1 mills, New Castle, Pa., on the 23d, killed three men.

Twelve lumbermen were drowned while trying to cross the Otto river near Columet Mich ..' Friday. A cloud burst occurred over Gainesville, Texas, Friday, deluging tho city to a depth :>fseveral feet. Ono of the new war vessels of the United States Navy is named the Concord. It will help keep the peace. Officer Peterson, a St. Paul policeman, was attacked by a gang of thugs on the morning of the 23d and fatally injured. The G. H. Hammond Dressod Beef Company, of Chicago, has been sold to a syndicate of English capitalists for $5,000,000,

Talmagc threatens to leave Brooklyn if the Tabernacle is not rebuilt properly. It is said that he has a $20,000 offer to go to Chicago. : 7 • Jimmy Carroll, of Brooklyn, and Billy Smith, of Australia, fought at San Francisco for $1,500. Carroll won in fourteen rounds. Samuel Nelson, of Hesperia, Mich., shot his sweetheart, Annie Felson, and then committed suicide, because the girl would not marry him, - - - Tho Central Illinois Millers’ Association have adopted resolutions favoring tho passage of the Butterworth Anti-Option bill now ponding in Congress. Ground was broken at Bluffton, Ala. Thursday, for the new building of the University of Southland, an institution founded by the Northern Methodist Ohurch. Deputy Sheriff Colonel E. W. Davis, cf Newark, N. J., is an embezzler to the amount of $29,000 and has fled. He had bandied all county money for the past twenty-five years. The house and ship building trades have secured the adoption of tho nine-hour day lu St. John, N. B. A movement is on foot for a general organization of workingmen to make the nine hour day include all trades and industries. J. C. Conkling, the new postmaster at Springfield, 111., who recently'removed six mail carriers, 'assigning as a reason “a change of administration,” was notified Monday by the authorities at Washington that removals can not be made for political reasons only. There is no immediate prospect of the settlement of the Chicago strike, and it looked on the 24th as if it might extend to all kinds of business. The situation in, Pittsburg railroad circles is dubious. Both roads ha' e refused to accede to the terms offered and a strike is imminent. W. P. Campbell, Assistant Enrolling Clerk of the Kentucky House, has sent a challenge to fight a duel to Thomas H. Davis, editor of the Maysvilleßepublican. Davis published that Campbell had left debts unpaid when recently he went away from Augusta, Ky. Campbell threatens to kill Davis on sight if a duel is declined. Five firemen were plunged through the floor of a burning building at Chicago on the 23d. Three of them were badly inured. Damage to, the extent of $150,000 was caused by a fire at Rochester. An attempt was made to burn the town of Tonawanda, N. Y. Fire destroyed the entire business portion of Greenwood, Miss. Two lives wereTost. A Bayou Sara special says: Another break occurred on tho 22d Id the Pointe Coupe levee, and tho indications are that the entire Pointe Coupe front will be submerged. The waternow pouring through the crevasses at tMorganzia and in the vicinity will overflow tho greater portion of tho country between the Atchafalaya and Mississippi Rivers, and extending from Old River above to Bayou Lafourche below, embracing about 700 square miles of territory. The correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer sends this interview with Mi-Kin-ly to his paper: “I have no hesitation iti saying, in response to your question, that in my opinion Benjamin Harrison will be nominated for President in 1893, and I have not seen any reason to doubt that he would be e.gam elected. He has kept tho promises that he has made. Ho has not interfered by his vetoes with tho best efforts his pa rty is making in Congress to settle th e vexed questions before us. I think, with be great new States added to the galaxy In the Northwest, that the Republican pa rty is very likely to be again intrusted wi th power."

FOREIGN. The Freneh and Dahomians had a battle ’.t Ponto Noro on the 23d. Fifty Frenchmen were wounded and 500 pahomians rilled. A Russian company has obtained a concession to construct a system of railways in Persia. The company Is financially supported by a syndicate of French eapi--iliste. The strikers renewed their rioting at rropika, Austrian Silesia, Monday. They were finally dispersed by the military, but not until they had smashed every window n two of the principal streets. Iu the ■olHsion between the rioters and the troops many were injured on both sides and eon eyed to the hospital. \ Whenever William E. Glad stone-catches cold he at once goes to bed. This has been his rnle for fifteen years. It is an interesting fact, not generally known, that he wrote his eieotlon address announcing the dissolution of Parliament in 1371 in bed. A Belgian has lately invented e musical shirt, on the cuffs of which fragments of a score are printed, so that if the instrumentalist he a flutist, harpist or oomotist, he has hie entire part under his eyes, and need net carry say further unite stout Xsi~h hlaa.