Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1890 — Commendable. [ARTICLE]

Commendable.

It keeps some of the “late U. S. chemists” busy, it would jaeem, writing analyses for baking powders. Col. George K. Davis, of Chicago, has been elected Direotor General of •the WflMd’s Fair . Mr. Davis has a very hard job on his hands. It is part of the eternal fitness of tilings that Chicago should have a •moke inspector. It is one of the best points in the known world to inspect smoke. The announcement from Europe that the triple ailianee is to be extended to 1897 indicates that Germany has not been able to come to any agreement with Russiaon the burning issues of Old World politics. The recent confiab of the Kaiser and Czar has accomplished nothing, therefore, beyond demonstrating that the latter wishes to keep his hands free, and to be governed in his action by developments as they arise. Whether this • means that Russia and France have a secret understanding or not can not he determined by the public; but it is tolererably clear that Russia is convinced that its interests are not altogether in harmony with those of Germany, Italy and Austria.

The Prince of Wales has not been in luck this year at the races. At -Goodwood he lost very heavily, SO heavily that it is said he found it difficult to negotiate a satisfactory arrangement to cover the losses with one of the fashionable Jewish family of Sassoons whom Mrs. Arthur Wilson innocently and ignorantly invited to her Doncaster party, and who, from being in high favor with the Prince, has now fallen under the shadow of royal displeasure. Lord Randolph Churchill, on the contrary, has been very fortunate at Doncaster. His horse l’Abbesse de Jouarre won, and Lord Randolph is understock to have taken out during all the season s ome £14,000. --■ 1^.1.. The new military law of France has considerably increased her fighting material. According to the figures of the War Minister recently published, the French army on a war footing •umbers 4,500,000 trained soldiers. The German army is now numerically inferior to that of France; and the French say that, although the German population is considerably greater than that of Frhnce, the male population of the two countries is about the same, in other words, the emigration from Germany has left an excess of female population at home, and has drained off an immense number of fighting men This state of affairs is probably the real cause of the pacific protestations of the young Emperor and of the cessation of war cries in the German press. And Crispi, too, is beginning to be more civil than he used to be. The is, the armies of Russ a and France are amply able to make the triple alliance behave itself.

The Rev. R. M. Pullman, a noted Universaliat preacher, and brother o£ the palace-, car manufacturer, has accepted the Republican nomination for Congress in the Third Maryland district. In defense of his action he says: Some people have expressed surprise that I, as a Christian minister, accepted the nomination for Congress, Shut I feel that the best American •politics is religion in harness, and when I accept the nomination I put harness on my religion. In the political field I am simply carrying c» t what, as a Christian minister. I have always preached. Ido not feel thr 11 have stepped down from the pulpit in any possible sense, but that I h ve .stepped from theory to practice. 1 bellieve that high, and patriotic, and •moral sentiments are needed to elevate .politics from the degradation ipto t which it has fallen through selfish and 'designing men who seek pe sonal preferment rather than their country’s, good, and that one of the saddest conditions of our Amesic&n life is that so .many people, dijgusted with polities, have refused to engage in an l early and noble way in the government of their country. ■ T~" Wi" I .:* "" t Veal Salad.—Boil a knuckle of veal •in six quarts of water, when tender re .move the bones, chop the meat and acM •the juice, which should be mostly ab sorbed, and two cups o*f cracka Vcnirabs, cinnamon,-pepper and salt; pu in a mold. Serve cold.

All claims not consistent with the high Jhar&cter of Syrup of Figs ere purposely avoided by the Cel. Fig Syrup Company. It eots gently on the kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the system effectually, but It is not a' cure-all end makes no pretensions that every bottle will not sobs tantiateu