Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A mine-boss named Gallagher cowhided a girl at Wellston. 0., the other day. Mr. Gallagher’s sense of propriety should have induced him to let ’er go. A man at Frankfort. Kan., who has worked forty years /upon the problem announces that perpetual motion is nothing more or less than wind. This confirms a popular impression. ________ Prof. Eissenweller of the University of Berlin announces that human baldness is produced by bacteria. This may be a euphemistic, scientific term for matrimonial incompatibility. Frankfort, Ky., is apprehensive lieeause she has learned that a large dam about twenty miles north of the city is in a dangerous condition. No true Kentuckian want to get nearer to water than t wenty miles. At Wellington, Kan., a clergyman preached upon the subject: Beauties of the Ideal Home Life,” after which he eloped with a member of his flock. Preaching and practicing are two diJfeyeriVthings in Kansas, it seems. - The Omaha Beo rises to remark that “business usages are outraged by the spring mosquito presenting his bill in the middle of the month.” No one will object, however, so long as the bill is presented nowhere else. There is likely to be a great hay crop this year, and that is more important than most people imagine. ■' The hay crop is worth more than any other except corn. It exceeds in val ue the oats crop, the wheat crop or the cotton crop. In 1885 the value of the hay crop in the United States was $389,752,873, while that of the wheat crop was $275,320,390, and of the cotton crop $369,989,812. Railroad men say the moving of the hay crop is a very important item in transportation. The announcement that Professor Snow, of the University of Kansas, woufd attempt to destroy chinch bugs by inoculating healthy specimens with the germs of disease and turning them loose into the fields where the pests appeared, caused not a little general amusement and incited the professional paragraphist to his best efforts. But now the practical results are being reported, and these results sustain the Professor. The infection of healthy bugs with bacterial disease did not work so well, because the season was wet and cold, but the infection of the captured bugs with a white fungus he found to be very’ destructive and Arpiite successful. The Professor has wsued reports from a dozen farmers in Kansas, all of whom testify to the deadly effect of the white fungus infection upon the bugs where they began to appear in large numbers. This is a scientific result which vindicates the wisdom of the study of entomology and the chair of “bugology” in agricultural colleges.—lnd. Journal. k

The supplement to the Western Brewer contains a statement showing the quantities of beer sold in the United States by States and Territories, for the years ending April 30, 1890, and April 30, 1891. The total for the latter year was 30,021.079 barrels, against 26.820,953 for the year ended April 30, 1690, an increase of 3,200,126 barrels. New York leads in the sales for 1890-91, with a total of 9,088,109 barrels, nearly three times the quantity sold in any other State; Pennsyltania being second, with 3,118.248 barrels, and then follow in order: Ohio, 2.* 636,668 barrels; Illinois, 2,608,916 barrels; Wisconsin, 2.403,640 barrels; Missouri, 2,038,398 barrels, and New Jersey, 1,609,350 barrels. These are the only States in each of which more than 1,000,000 barrels were sold, and the total in these seven represents more than threefourths of the entire aggregate. Michigan stands tenth in the list, the sales in this State amounting to 004,557 barrels. There are only six States in which no sales are reported. These are Arkansas, Florida, Maine, Mississippi, North Carolina and Vermont. The figures indicate the extent Of the brewing industry in the respective States and Territories, but do not show the consumption of beer in each. The aggregate, however, shows that on an average throughout the United States nearly half a barrel of beer per cap

The public debt was reduced 12.218.666 during J tfnb. During the secdndqnarter of 1991 there were 992 new industries established in the Month. Pennsylvania. Republicans have issued An. address protesting iratnrt Quay’s leadership. At Boone, lowa, on tho Ist, hall as large as hen's eggs felL-doing great damage to every: lung In its track. A syndicate has been organized with a capital of fl .«Wi o oto cultivate a farm of 112.000 acres in Florida. The horse shoe mills of tho Diamond State Iron Co., at Wilmington, Del., were burned on tl.e 28th. causing a loss of 5400,000.

The Pre-ident loft Washington Friday morning for Cape May, and for the next five or six weeks will transact al) public business requiring his attention at that place. The Dalton gang of outlaws is reported to have robbed the Sac and Fox agency, Indian Territory, of a large amount of money.' . The Michigan House, after a long fight, has passed the Senatorial gerrymander without any change, aud it has been signed by the Governor. - A Grayson county (Iowa) boy tied a gentle cow's tail about his neck while driving the animal to the pasture. The cow became frightened ami dragged the boy to death. Preparations ate being made for a series of naval maneuvers off the New England .toast to test the value of our ships in actual war. The enormous tobacco business of the Lorlllards, of New York, has been turned over to a stock company,. to be known as the P.Lorillard Company,with a capital of 15.00 JJWO. The statue of General Grant, the largest bronze ever cast in America, has arrived at Chicago ready for erection in Lincoln Park. It will be unveiled the first week in October. The Huntingdon (Pa.) Manufacturing Com pan y, con t rolled by the Iron Car Company, of New York, has indefinitely suspended operations. Three hundred men are thrown out of employment, Frank Melboum. t he Australian inventor of an alleged rain -machine,will attempt to cause a fall of rain over seventy thousand square miles of territory, next Tuesday, with Canton, 0., as a central point. The insurance on the stock and fixtures in the coffee-roasting house of E. Loverug & Co., which was burned Sundaylight, amounts to f9?.StXX Of this 582,500 was on the stock alone, and 19,800 on machinery. ’ Harvey Mullins and Pike Cooper, two of a notorious gang pf moonshiners, were •aptured in McDowell county, Va., on the !7th. The gang was a desperate one, and were accused of several murders. The arrests were made at the muzzle of Winehes-

xws. - - —----- --- A Chicago agricultural paper gives the ’ollowiug estimates of average yield per *cre for the chief winter wheat States, )&?ed on the current harvest: Illinois 17 oushels, Indiana 20, Ohio 15 to 20, Rentee* y 10 to 15. Kansas 18, Missouri 19,10wa t 9 to 20. All the details of the transfer of the dgnal service from the War Department o the Agricultural Department have been completed. The transfer goes into effect £ Wednesday, July 1. It is generally •oncedcd that General Greely, the present •hies signal officer, will be soon succeeded jy a civilian, and it is said that the jew man will be Assistant Secretary >f Agriculture Willets or Prof. Nipher, of St. Louis. In the spring of 1890 the Winona (Minn.) Mill Company's buildings were burned, mtailing a loss of 5300,000. The company tad insured its plant In thirty companies, ■hrough a s .igle agency. The policies forold further insurance on the property, but in attached slip made an .exception as to rrain and flour on hand. After the fire it was discovered that 5100,000 moroinsurince had been taken on tl}& plant , and the •ompanies refused payment. Suit was 'ironght. the mill company holding that :be slip was a substitute for the prohibition clause in the tody of the policy, and is it did not prohibit additional insurance •he action of tlie company was regular in taking such insurance. Jndge McConnell sustained this view. Secretary Rusk, when asked in regard to he results of the pork inspection at Chicago. said, to-day. that it had been very satisfactory’. The proiwtion of animals ’onrid affected was less than was expected, :ndhe b<diev«s less than In the hogs )f any other country. Our uork, he continued, is the most wholesome of any produced, because onr hogs are raised under he best sanitary conditions. They are utconfined to small pens and filthy quarters. as in other countries, but they have Tie run of large fields, and are fed upon plover and corn. Hogs here are not treated as scavengers and fed upon slops and garbage, as they are in Europe; but, on the contrary, they 1 are raised as a means of marketing, in a concentrated form, the bulky produce of our farms. The inspection has demonstrated without question that the pork of the United States Is befoud suspicion, and the inspected product will be by far the best which finds its way to the European markets.

FOREIGN. A terrible storm visited England on the 2d, destroying many lives and doing great damage to property. The stoppage of the Welsh tin plate works, it is estimated, will keep boxes off the market, the average consumption being I,Gt O,OCO boxes per month. Much indignation exists in government circles at Berlin over the renewed bitterness of the Bismarck organs toward the Kaiser and his policy, and especally the covert assaults upon the triple alliance. Most of the articles are inspired by Bismarck and serve to widbn the breach between the ex-Chancellor and the Emperor, and there is yet a possibility that Bismarck may find himself called to account, notin the way of a judicial proscution, butts an bfficw of ThaTrnperTaT army en-

deavoriug to undermine the faith of th* people in the sovereign. Those who an near the Kaiser say that his animosity toward Bismarck has grown rapidly of laU. and may taka a form unpleasant to tht Pr i n ee. /.-8 ■'——.