Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Eyck though the population of the country may fall below the 65,000,000 mark, which most persons supposed would be reached, only one civilized nation, is ahead of us in this respect. This is Russia. China, of course, is left out in this calculation. Russia, too, with its 90.000,000 or 100,000.000 inhabitants, will be left in the rear twenty or thirty years hence. the annual 2 per cent, increase of the population by births over deaths which prevailed between 1870 ond 1880 has been maintained ever since, the country has .nearly 67,000,000 inhabitants now, counting in the immigrants which have coms here in the past ten years. The census bureau’s figures of a 64,000,000 aggregate, however, if correct, indicates that there has been a serious falling off in this rate of increase. A good many persons, though, will be inclined to attribute this apparent falling off to an actual failure to count all the people. The Eastern papers appear to be surprised to learn that the Wilkesbarre tornado had all the characteristics of the Western storia of this name. That is to say, the papers referred to have been imagining that the tornado was a strictly Western product, which confines its activities, rigidly to the northern part of the Mississippi valley. All of which reveals a capacious ignorance of the situation. The records of the Signal Service, as well as the files of the Eastern papers, show that the tornado isalmpst as familiar a visitor on the sunrise side of the Alleghenys as it is on the sunset side. The opinion of Mrs, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps on the proposed crosssaddle costume for equestriennes would be of interest. Science has discovered that the old fashioned side-saddle has been for ages distorting the female spine, and as a remedy the tailors are devising a costume whereby woman can ride like man without relinquishing the individuality of her apparel. How far they have succeeded is the point upon which the public would welcome enlightenment* As also the further point whether, taking it that the costume is all that it should be, there is any impropriety in the new style of mounting and dismounting. Oxe delegate in the Mississippi constitutional convention proposes that conviction of felony, petty larceny, selling liquor without a license dr vending lottery tickets shall work a forfeiture of the elective franchise. From murder to gambling is a pretty wide range, and it seems odd that only one form of gaming should be so heavily punished. Why not put the professional gambler, the dealer in futures, book-makers and so on under the-same ban? The most remarkable omission, however, is that of prizefighting. After the terrifi o war waged by Mississippi on Kilrain and Sullivan it seems as if it would have been in order to put that onAbAflist, if only to mark the State's abhorrence of sluggers. If on reflection it be inserted we suggest that a conviction of cai* rying concealed weapons be made a ground of disfranchisement also.

So great is the passion for perfume among Parisian women that not only are their tresses bathed in fragrant waters, their shoes made of perfumed leather, their clothes folded iu odorous sachets, but recently a fair belle of the frivolous city discovered a method of rendering her very flesh and blood as full of sweet odors as a rosebu* freshly gathered. She was like man* social queens, a victim of the opium habit, and had noticed with annoyance that, after injecting hypodermically s strong infusion of the drug, her entire body seemed pervaded with its peculiar odor. To counteract this effect shs tried the experiment of .injecting a few orops of perfume in the feme way, when, to her great delight, in a short '.ime after the operation her person was redolent with the. sweetness of the perfume. She intended reserving the process for her own benefit, but her maid divulged the secret, and presently not a toilet table was, fully equipped without a “Subcutaneous perfume syringe,” and the fine ladies in Paris fell mysteriously ill from infusing wpure perfumes into the blood or using extracts distinctly poisonous i> the same way. And now the doctors are warring against the dangerous fashion and intend io summarily dispossess it by petitioning to the legislature to the practice punishable by law*

It snowed In Montana on the 11th. The recount of Minneapolis's population makes i t 164.7*0. . Beetles are devastating the spruce forests of West Virginia. It is rumored that Pullman and Westinflhouse interests may be pooled. A Chicago citizen away on a visit returned to find his house stolen. A New York court has decided that contracts made by telegraph are invalid. It is rumored that Mr, Cleveland will ffiake his permanent home in Massachusetts. '• Four Italians were killed by lightning near Brewsters, N. Y., on the Harlem Railroad. Two negroes were . lynched by an unmasked mob of 200 men near Amory, Miss, on the lith. An ex-collector of taxes at Biddeford, Me., is charged with embezzling SIOO,OOO of the city’s funds. Loring K. Loomis, a Chicago stock broker has absconded with $25,C00 belonging to his business associates. Duringagale Sept. 1 (reported Sept. 16), twelve of the crew of the ship. Challenger were swept oyerboard by heavy seas and lost. Money was again stringent in the New: York market on the 15th. Loans were made at the rate of 98 per cent, per annum. Six Itcgs of giant powder exploded, at Wilkesbarre. Pa., on the 12th. Three men v.-ere iu.-umtiy .:11 ;ed and much, damage done to surrounding property. Mr. Depew made a speech at the Union League Club Friday night. He said that Blaine and McKinley were the best known -Americans on the other side, • ,

A K. of L. meeting at New York declared that Mr. Depew had tried to defeat the efforts of labor by refusing to listen to the demands of Central strikers. The Mayor of Algona, la., has forbidden the use of baby carriages on the sidewalks, claiming that they have no more right on the walks than lumber wagons or other vehicles. The body of Erickson was . formally transferred to the Swedish government Sunday, with imposing ceremonies. One hundred thousand people united in the demonstration. The June census count gave Minneapolis 177,406 population and St. Paul 143,506. On the recount, ordered because St. Paul charged padding, Minneapolis receives 164,738 and St. Paul 133,301. Robert Ray Hamilton, whose trouble with his wife created a sensation throughout the country some months ago, was drowned last week in Snake river, Yellowstone park, while hunting. Delegates ..representing the Farmers* Alliance, Knights of Labor and the Car penters and Painters’ Unions met at Fort Wayne on the 12th and resolved to call a convention to place a county ticket in the field. ‘ Mrs. Belle Rafferty, alias Mrs, B. McDonald, Emma Curtis and a half dozen other names, was arrested in. Memphis charged with the crime of having seven times, in as many different pities, se . fire to her house for the purpose of obtaining the insurance. Another lineman met a horrible death at New York on the 15th. His name was Kopp, and while working on the electric wires he suddenly became limp and helpless, and the sizzling of his flesh could be heard on the street below. , Hundreds of people witnessed the awful spectacle, but were unable to afford any relief. The population of Duluth. Minn., is 32. 725, an increase of 30,080- of Lynn, Mass., 55,684, an increase of 17,410; North Adams, Mass., 16,067, an increase of 5,876; Long Island City, N. Y., 30,896, an increase of 13,26 J; Hampton, Va., 6,538, an increase of 1.855; Norfolk, Va.. 39,986, an increase of 13,020; Portsmouth, Pa., 12,345, an increase of 955. Mr. Hetman Lackmann, a wealthy Cincinnati, died suddenly last summer from sunstroke. He left no will. His heirs, however, have agreed that if he had made a witl he "would have made a number of bequests to orphans’ homes, hospitals, etc., and they have set aside 1 •from the estate SI,OOO-for the German ■ Protestant Deaconnesses’ Hospital and SSOO each to thirteen other institutions supported by contributions. This they do as a tribute to his memory,and as carrying out to some extent his wishes. Twenty years ago Owen McCarthy, a leading merchant qr Albion, N. Y., suddenly disappeared. He was in debt to different persons over $1,500. Nothing was ever heard from him till a few days ago, when he reappeared ,in town. He hunted up his creditors and paid each one in full, with interest for twenty years, which amounted to $3,000 more than the principal. He has been struggling with ill fortune ever since he left Albion, until a year ago, when he made a lucky strike in natural gas in western Pennsylvania, by which he cleared over $100,000.'

A special dispatch from New Orleans says: The Sugair Planters’ Association has decided to send a delegation to Washington to urge upon Congress the vital im portance to the sugar industry in Louisiana of changing the elate at which the sugar schedule of the new tariff is to go into effect. The association holds that it is practically impossible to market the Louisiana sugar crop, estimated to be worth some $20,00(1,000, in season to escape the decline in prices which will ensueiiapon the adoption of the new tariff, and asks that the schedule do not take effect until July I) A double fatal street duel occurred at Newbern, Ala., Sept. 16, between Robert Turpin and Glen Duskin, prominent young men of the town. * They had quarreled Saturday afternoon, but parted with the understanding that each should arm himself and shoot on sight. Yesterday afternoon, about 4 o’clock, they came together in the center of the town v when firing began. Each emptied his revolver. Duskiu fell mortally wounded’ with four balls in his body, and the last,shot from his pistol after he had fallen to his knees, struck Turpin in the forehead, killing him inStantly. - “ s : A special to the Kansas City Star from Topeka, Kan., s«ys: Information has free n

received here that the council of the prairie band pf the Pottawotamies’held a few days ago on the reservation in Jackson county, terminated inarow in which three of the leaders were killed and several others were wounded. Thei-pare two bands one known as the Little Soldiers,composed of all Indians; and the other known as the Big Soldiers, composed of full bloods, half bloods and squaw men. The trouble grew out of the President's order to sectionize, for the consideration of which the council had been called, The Little Soldiers’ band favor obeying the President's order, which the Big Soldiers’ band oppose.

FOREIGN. The miners of the Durham district, Eng land, who struck for seven hours as a day’s work have compromised on ten hours. At Montreal last Wednesday night Pritice George fend a few friends engaged in a flght with somje street loafers. H. R. H. was arrested for fighting. A riot has taken place at Villna, growing out of the charge that certain Jews were guilty of the murder of a Christian. Many Jews were terribly maltreated before the military quelled the disturbance. Dr. Roth, the German physician who claims that be has discovered a method of curing consumption by inoculation, is about to commence experiments on human patients who are suffering from tuber*, culosis. Much chagrin is felt in Turkey over the virtual refusal of Lord Salisbury to withdraw the British troops from Egypt, on the ground that the country had not yet sufficiently progressed to justify their withdrawal. 7 \ A dispatch to the London Standard !rom Zanzibar .says : “The open' purchase and sale of slaves is permitted in' German territory. It is reported that 20,000 Wannamezishave arrived at Bagomoyo in conse quence. No efficient steps have been taken to stop the traffic.” The Canadian government, it is understood, will shortly abolish the export duty on Canadian logs shipped to the United States. This will be carrying out the promise inade at the last session of Parliament by Sir John Macdonald, who said he would abolish the duty if the American governs ment reduced the import duty on Canadian lumber oneshalf. A Dublin correspondent says that there is no danger of any suffering in Ireland before Christmas; that the failure of the .potato harvest is far f rom general, and that other crops are better than the average He asserts that boards of poor law guarfl ians and other bodies are attempting to create unjustifiable apprehensions of fam ine with the view of. influencing public opinion in Great Britain and abroad, ans representing the condition of Ireland ap much worse than it really is.