Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1891 — CURRENCY. [ARTICLE]

CURRENCY.

Detroit Free Press. * WITCHCRAFT !!* MEXICO. f There are still several tribes of. Indians in Mexico who believe in witchcraft, and the other week a woman f was killed because it was contended that she drove the sun over into the United States and filled up the space with rain.— NOTHING IN IT. The old legend that an Indian never forgave an injury or forvot a favor is declared to be all bosh by the men who know best. 'He hates no worse than a white man, and like the general run of white men doesn’t slop over to any great extent to re-i turn favors. GUARD YdU& SPEECH. Elmer Young, an Oswego man, felt funny the other morning, and ho said to Mrs. White, who was going to the grocery, “Trot along after you* coal oil, sissy.” She had him arrested, and the court decided that “sissy” was slander, and gave her a verdict for SSO. BAD EATING. ' V- 1 -' I ~ : —---------- T -. ■ -•= A native of Borneo stole a hammock belonging to a missionary, and bis chief sentenced him to eat the plunder or lose his head. He waa given seven days in which to tickl« nis palate with the outfit, and he accomplished the feat. He is now “heap honest.” it’s no go. The three or four French artists who started out two or three yean ago to introduce men angels in theij pictures of heaven have had to give it up and return to all females. II there is any heaven for men the public won’t admit it, at least in the angel business. DRAWING THE LINE. A native New Zealander was induced to wear a shirt, a paper collar, shoes and a hat, and he almost concluded to eat with a knife and embrace Christianity. Then they asked him to wear suspenders, and he went out and hanged himself. It was pushing civilization too far.

A BIT RECKLESS.

A man in Cincinnati has made affidavit that he called up an acquaintance by telephone and had a five minutes’ chat, and then learned thal the man had been dead two hours when he helloed him up. It is hoped the dead man got satisfaction ovei the wire. That is more than any live one will ever get.

OF COURSE SHE WON. A Mrs. Williams, of Valley City, Dak., wagered that she could put the slips on five pillows while any man presept at a church, fair could encase one, and seven different men took hex up and suffered defeat. No man ean ever acquire the knaek of holding a Eillow in his teeth to work with both ands. ENOCH is OUT. Wisconsin is known to have a law which provides that when a husband disappears and is not heard of for three years by his wife she is divorced without further notice. The Enoch Arden business in that State will re eeive a black eye, and the man wh< goes out to feed the hogs will bt quite apt to return. COME TO STAY. ?*he grip was simply experiment ing on the American people last winter, to see how they would take it. ft has been present in every county in the land this winter, and the doctors have every reason to believe that it will abide with, us for two or three more winters to come: JUSTICE IS SLOW. IL speaks well for Idle laws of this country that eighty-two different men have been arrested within the last two years as the murderer of Snell, the Chicago banker. It was a case of mistaken identity in each instance, but proves that the law is leaving no stones unturned to find the right man. HIS REWARD. A useless member of Cincinnati’s population leaped into the Ohio from the suspension bridge the other day and was not killed. As a reward for his daring three different saloons set up the beer for him free gratis, and another man gave him a cigar. It paid him to take the drop.

WILLING TO CHANGE. A man undergoing a sentence of twenty-five years in the lowa penitentiary has expressed his willingness to change off and enlist in the United States navy for three years, if it will be any special favor to the Secretary, who complains of a scarcity of men. This shows that good men often get into prison. IN THE SHADOW. The coming of death does stir up a guilty conscience, after all —at least with most people. It was a terrible thing for Mrs. Quigley to swear her brother’s life away as she did at Welland, and her deathbed confes sion? is one to be bought up by the dime museum men and placed in th chamber of horrors. A twenty-acre pond bubbled u out of the earth In Center Co., Pa. recently, in twenty minutes.