Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1891 — The Kaiser at Wartburg. [ARTICLE]

The Kaiser at Wartburg.

Thx recent great naval battles in Chili makes one feel chilly. ■ " 1 «' m ■' l ■ ' A wise son knoweth his own papa, a smart daughter findeth out her own popper. - . - - The recent Florida Legislature consisted of ninety-nine Democrats and one Republican. The Odd Fellows of Indiana jire said to pay out sl9 every hour in benefits, relief, etc. About the only thing the aristocracy of England seems to be good for is to aristoc., gamble and get drunk. The disclosures in the Cumming trial have not advanced the in. terests of useless “nobility" to any Extsat.- ~ A swarm of bees settled in the cab of a moving engine near Huntingdon, Pa, the other day. The train was stopped and the bees given pos* session. A long line of freight trains was blocked a considerable time un j til the owner ot the bees came and removed his property. In a recent application in court Pittsburg for a liquor license the charge was made that the applicant was a gambler and the license ought to be refused. The attorney for the applicant said: “I call your attention to the fact, your honor, that the Prince of Wales also gambles.’’ “Then," said the Judge, “he could not get a liquor license in this court." Few people have au idea how densely populated India is. In Ben-—gaUhereds-an average of 474 persons to every square mile, or upon one-twenty.third part of the area of the United States there are nine million more people than in the whole of this Republic. In the purely agricultural region of Oude there are 442 persons to the square mile. The density of this population can be imagined when it is stated that a square mile of agricultural land in England gives employment to only fifty men and women.

• The Prince of Wales cut a sorry figure in the recent suit of Lord Cumming for damages against several members of the “upper ten’ who had accused him of cheating at cards. The Prince, it was shown, was the “banker” and chief gamblei of the gang. Several so-called ladies were also in the game. Lord Cumming was found guilty of the charges of his one-time friends, but the great* est development of the trial was th< showing that British aristocracy is anything but a credit to decent England.

Within the past two years many thousands of. Italians have left the Mediterranean ports for Brazil, the Government of which country offered them all sorts of inducements to settle in it. They were assured that in Brazil they could get land at nominal prices on long credit, that they could raise Brazilian products with easy labor, that they could find employment on the public works, and even that they could procure loans ol money from the appropriations mads by the Government in their interest. Of course, nearly all of them whe were thus induced to take ship for Brazil have met with disappointment there. They could not get land on the terms that had been published: they could not Jfind the work that had been promised, and they could not get any part of the funds that had been appropriated for their assistance. Last year, those ot the Italians in Brazil who found that they could no longer live under the hardships to which they were subjected, sought for assistance from Italy to return there, and many of them have gone back within the year. Nearly a thousand of them arrived at an Italian port a few days ago, carrying melancholy reports of their Brazilian experiences. It is not likely that Brazil will hereafter be a favorite resort for Italians who desire to change their country.—N. Y. Sun.

Rumors come from Berlin which place the versatile Kaiser in yet an other light. This time it is as a pietist that his many-sided majesty is about to appear on the scene. He is on the point of making a “retreat,” so it is said, to the historic castle ol Wartburg, where Luther distnguished himself by hurling an inkpot at the’devil’s head. Here William II will shut himself up for retirement for a day or two, hoping, possibly, tc emulate Luther’s achievement.