Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1890 — THE SEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE SEWS OF THE WEEK.

The school book trust is another of those infamous raids on the people a&ainst which there is a growing re- - volt all over this country. It is a well known fact in science that the eyes are more the epitome of the man than all other features that may help to suggest character. Two of the dangers which threaten . our government to-day Is centralization and paternalism, either of which if given absolute control will destroy the American Republic. A Chicago student of society says ••men dress to please women, and the latter, dear creatures, array themselves gorgeously that other women may be a prey to envy." :—— The government has not a dollar except what it collects by some kind es a tax. The various modes of collection are given different names, but the fact remains nevertheless. Bebun has got far enough along in eivilization to discriminate in regard to its criminal classes. It provides in its prisons for seven different orders of criminals. There is an order in •rime. ’ The" striving to be eloquent, to sav something that sounds well, has often led public speakers to 6ay ridiculous things. The cool analytical listener is never deceived into taking sound for sense. — A will of one of the Pharaohs 5,000 years old has been discovered. If •here is any money in it, we may expect to hear of direct descendants of aid man Pharaoh springing up alf over the world.

The new Russian army rifle of small soliber is two Rnd one-half pounds tighter than the old one. The soldier san carry, therefore, so much more weight in ammunition. The sighting is far more oorrect and the range is 50 per cent further. Moreover, twenty shots can be fired per minute, A Californian who has been twice iivorced from his wife has again remarried her. There’s where the beauty and adaptability of our divorce laws come in. They allow a couple whose association becomes wearisome, but who, after all, really love each other, to take an occasional vacation. Wealth may not be worth the cost »f getting, but the fickle goddess cannot be wooed by the individual who is here to-day and elsewhere tormorrow, whose mind is without balance, whose body represents unrest A fixed purpose, a concentrated effort, a determination to win, are important factors in the pursuit of gain. Kate Field’s Washington says that the phrase old maid is absolute, and that the person formerly described by it has become as rare as the American bison. Kate is no bison, but she must look with a degree of sympathy across the rapidly civilizing prairies to where the exterminated animal -which >he chooses as a figure at one time oamed in vast herds. Seventy-five per cent of the successes in business, manufacturing or nechanieal pursuits, is the result of ooneentrated effort A cannon ball will destroy more masonry than scattering musket shot A flood will undermine mere river banks than the drops of a summer shower. Concentration of braiq or muscle will produce more important results than occasional bursts of thought or action. As regards the amount of sleep, every man must be a law unto himself. If one can preserve good health and full intellectual or physical activity by six hours of sleep there is no good reason for trying to sleep a longer time. Every one should take care that short sleep has not resulted from a long-continued bad habit; the system should have every opportunity to get the amount of sleep that Beams to be noocssary for it

Brake men are, by official orders, generally stationed at the steps of trains to ask passengers where they are geing. It is a good scheme, and the company should be praised for wish an arrangement but there are travelers who seem determined to resent any imputation that they do not know all about where they are going and all about the trains to take them there, and will answer such questions M the brake men put with overbearing insolence. These is a species of acacia which is commonly called the angry tree. When the sun sets the leaves fold up end the twigs coil tightly. If the shoots are handled the leaves rustle and move uneasily for a time. If this queer plant Is removed from one pot to another it seems angry, and the leaves stand out in all directions like qnills on a porcupine. A pungent and sickening odor, said to resemble that given off by rattlesnakes when annoyed, fills the air, and it ll only aftei an hour or so that the leases fold in the natural way. Virginia, Nev. . has •ns of thhw trees, brought from Australia. ‘

Manitoba crops are very promising. Cracker bakers are forming a trust. The public debt was reduced $8,661,871 during May. - A Montreal, Can., cashier is on his way here with $50,000. 3 The worst storm of the season visited western lowa on the 3d. One thousand one hundred carpenters Struck Monday at. Cincinnati. Washington barbers talk of serving a bowl of Boup with every shave. High waters have done much damage to lumber interests at Arcadia, Wis. Philip Lyon, of Ithlco, N. Y,, was killed by cable cars at Chicago on the 2d. The weather last week was generally favorable to crops the country over/ The new gunboat Bennington was successfully launched at Chester, Pa., on the 3d.

Rollin Beers, a young lawyer of Trumbull, Conn., is an embezzler to the tune of 180,000. Geo. L. Hutohings, formerly cashier of the Third National Bank, New York, has skipped. FrancU Murphy, the temperance evangelist, is to wed a wealthy Council Bluffs, la., widow. By a strange series of accidents four persons lost their lives near Leadville, Coi., on the 4th. Frank Mange, aNew York census enumerator, at the close of his first day’s work, committed suicide. The election in Oregon on the 3d resulted! in a Republican victory, with the possible exception of Governor. An Egyptian wants to sell the World’s Fair the sarcophagus of Cleopatra for 160,* 000 f. o. b. at Alexandria. N. E. Harl, of Pittsburg, Pa., agent for a number of mining firms is missing with 120,000. Gene to Canada. A number of Baltimore hotel and saloon keepers have been indicted for violating the new high license law. Joseph Ray, aged eighty-two, who built the first school house ever erected in Wabash county, died Saturday. Isaac Gaston, drummer for L R, Howard & Co., Richmond, is said to be short $5,000 and is now in the Black hills.

Six cadets in the Navy, who deserted their ship in the Mediterranean, have arrived at New York under arrest Loveland, lowa, was almost destroyed by a water spout on the 2d. One life was lost. The village is a very small one. C. A. Thompson, cashier of the Owego National Bank, is charged with defrauding it of $30,000. The bank has suspended. The annual meeting of the Pennsylvania railroad company was held on the 3d. The act earnings for the year were $726,5'02.32. A sleek thief of Lawrenceburg, Ky., stole from stamp-deputy Petty’s house a oheck for $44,647.50, and other valuables. Chicago boss carpenters who have riolated the alien contract labor law are X) be prosecuted by the Federal authorities. Edward J. Cottell, resident partner at st. Paul, of the firm of Walker & Co., itock brokers, has defaulted and gone to Canada. Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Blaine visited Alexandria, Va., Sunday, and attended Christ Church, where Washington worjhipped. DDr. Antonio Lagoria, of Chicago, will, within the next two weeks, open an institute for treating rabies by the Pasteur method. Clarence V. Jewett, President of the lewett Publishing Co., Boston, has disappeared. Overissued stock to the amount >f $75,000. Mrs. Morrow, her son and daughter, of Denver, were burned to death on the 3d while trying to light a fire by the aid of serosene. L M. Taggett, Edward Goodchild, William Holmes and Matt Ringies, farmers, were struck ty lightning at Cairo, Mich, ind killed. Brown Hal, the champion race stallion of the world, paced a quarter of a mile in twenty-eight seconds at the Ewall Farm, Spring Hill, Tenn. Geo. W. Roberts, Superintendent of the Smith & Griggs Manufacturing Co., Chicago, played poker and dropped $15,000 of his employers’ money. Mrs. Ida Chattelain, en route via steamer Belgenland to join her husband at Berne in Adams county, died at sea and was round dead in her berth. At Gieenwood, la., the chimney of the Institute of Feeble-Minded Children was blown down by a storm. Two of the children were killed and six injured. An auditing committee found a deficiency of $19,030 in the accounts of the Kansas City Treasurer. Chief Clerk Horace McKim has been relieved from duty. St. Louis came near being visited by a calamity on the 3d by the burning of a tenement house. As it was, one life was lost and six other people were badly injured. *

Seven youngsters arrived at the Pasteur Institute, N. Y. t on the 2d, from St Joseph, 111,, for treatment for mad-dog bite. They were bitten by a mongrel cur about a week previous. s Ex-Judge Henry S. Austin, of Chicago, was sent to jail Tuesday,, for robbing an estate of $7,000. Austin is seventy-nine years old and says the money was stolen frpm his safe. Jobe J. Woodward, of Cleveland, has been arrested for obtaining $10,00(f under false pretenses. He represented that he owned an unincumbered farm of 315 acres In Mahoning county, O.

The Conference of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, in session in New York, hat declared that secret societies are against the interests of the Church, and destructive of the souls of men. J. M. Shellenberger, of Doylestown, Pa., the lawyer who caused suoh a wide-spread sensation by his forgeries and other criminal escapades has been sentenced to twenty-two years at hard labor.

Herman Oelrichs, of New York, was married on the 3d at San Francisco, to Miss Theresa Fair, daughter of ex-U. S. Senator James G Fair. The wedding was gotten up in royal magnificence. I John Lutz,, county auditor, St. Cloud, Minn., fans absconded, leaving his affairs in a very complicated condition. State Examiner Kenton, from St. Paul, ia there

making an examination ofrhis books. The amountof his shortage cannot now be do termined, but it will reach up into th« thousands. A powder magazine near Mansfield, 0.. was exploded by lightning on the evening of the 3d. Many dwellings in tho vicinity ■ were destroyed. One child was killed and a mother and child fatally injured. North Dakota is swarming with agents of the Louisiana lottery, and it is said that $5,000,000 will be expended With a view to securing the election of a Governor and Legislature favorable to the scheme. A train bearing officials of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was wrecked near Wheel ing, W. Va M on the sth. The train went through a trestle, and six of the officials were injured, none of them, however, fatally.

Original package liquor dealers convicted and sent to jail under the Kansas law, have been released by United States Judge Foster oh writs of habeas corpus, based on the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court. Governor Fifer, of Illinois, will call a special session of tbe Legislature on the 27th inst., to act upon the suggestion that the city of Chicago be empowered tc issue $5,000,000 in bonds on account of tbe World’s Fair. An explosion occurred on a German Lark steamer lying at the works of the Atlantic Oil Refining Co., near Philadelphia, on the sth. The vessel was fired and nearly consumed. Thirteen firemen were burned or injured, some of them fatally. Thirty-seven thousand five hundred enu. merators began taking the census of these United States on the 2d. It will require eighteen days to feel the pulse of our 65,000,000. Then we will discover many a 2,000 town where a 5,000 city is now located The Circuit Court Saturday at Richmond, Va., granted a charter to tbe Confederate Memorial Literary Society. Its object is to collect battle flags, relics and other emblems of the late war, and secure the Jefferson Davis mansion in which to store them.

Jacobs Brothers, Steamship and Rail road agents, New York, have been swindling poor workmen who sent money through them to their families in Europe for their support or to bring them to America. Tho brothers kept the money, and when discovered fled to Canada. The City Council, of Columbus, granted John S. Crump a franchise for a line o street railway. Four miles of track will be laid and tbe line will be completed by October 1, next. The motive power wil be horses at the start, but will afterwards be changed to electricity. At Clarkville, lowa, the team of a German named Lobock started to run, when Lobock’s wife sought refuge under a fence with a child in her arms. The team ran over the fence, trampling the woman and killing her instantly. The child’s arm was broken, but it was not fatally hurt. One hundred and twenty Mormons arrived at New York Tuesday morning on the Guion Line steamship Wisconsin from Liverpool, under tbe leadership of Elder Wiley, representing the Union Pacific Uailroad, and Elder Prindle, of the Mormon Church. The party is en route to Utah.

Proof is at hand that the Lower California filibustering expedition, recently exposed, was the scheme of a Britisher, who was using a few Americans as a blind. His plans were to have English war vessels in the vicinity, and under pretext of protecting British interests would establish a British protectorate over the peninsula. Alabama Democrats nominated Thomas C. Jones, of Montgomery, for Governor. The platform reaffirms “unswerving and unalterable fealty and a'legiance to the time-honored principles of the Democratic party, as promulgated by Jefferson, de fended by Jackson, and maintained by Grover Cleveland.” A strong tariff reformed plank was adopted. Elzo Allen, confidential clerk of the Austin Investment Co., who skipped from Kansas with $20,000, has been been arrested in Chicago. His arrest was a clever piece of detective work. One of Pinkerton’s men found in the absconder's dairy some‘> tender references to a Miss Lulu Probst, of Marquette, Mich. Miss Probst proved toj be a school teacher. She was shadowed,j and it was learned that she was corresponding with one M. Thompson at Chicago. Thompson called for a letter Saturday, and was arrested. He proved to De Allen. Itl is not known how much of the stolen! money was found in his possession. Allen’sl wife and baby in Kansas City are destitute. 1 ' Will Jackson mercilessly and murdered Ida Dean, his mistress, at Ft.; Smith, Ark., on the 2d, because she refused to live with him longer. After shooting and badly wounding her, he followed her in the street, where he shot her twice as she lay on the sidewalk, and with uplifted hands implored him not to shoot her more. This occurred about noon and in the presence of at least fifty women and children, and a few men who were held by the murderer, who threatened viciously when they advanced upon him. When certain of her death he kissed her and then shot himself in the left breast, but not fatally.

FOREIGN. The German farmers have formed a union to protect the small agriculturists against oppression of the larger ones. An excellent yield of cotton has been obtained from American seed in Turkestan and other provinces beyond the Caspian. At a meeting held at the Mansion House, London, on the sth, at Which the Duke o 1 Fife presided, Mr. Henry M. Stanley made an address, in which he agreed to raise a fund to place a steamer on the Victoria Nyanza. . A deputation from Scotland visited Mr. Chaplain, British Minister of Agriculture, Thursday, aDd aske d him to modify the restriction against the importation! of American cattle. The chief arguments of the deputation in support of their request was the scarcity of store cattle is Great Britain, and the absence of pleuropneumonia in America. In reply to theli request, Mr. Chaplain said that the bulk of the farmers of Great Britain favored re striction. He was unable, he declared, tc hold out the slightest hope of any modification of the present regulations governing the importation of cattle, even If cat tie in America were entirely free from the disease.