Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Since 1879 a man of Napoleon, 0., has lived peacefully with three wives at one and the same time. A man who can do that evidently has little to fear from the courts. A Cincinnati man who recently married his aunt has been sent to the penitentiary for three years. Other matrimonial freaks who desire to become their own uncle in this manner should remember that West Virginia is the only State which now tolerates such a performance. •SSEESSaSSKSEHSSeS’ - It isn’t so’very'strange that an old lady of Salina, Kao. , began her prayer with: “O, Lord, thou hast probably read in the morning papers how thy day was desecrated yesterday.” The papers out there lie so much about their circulation, any old lady is justified in believing they go everywhere.

An English naturalist has made the important discovery that our esteemed contemporary, the.bedbug, was common as long ago as 120 years before the Christian era. As science throws more and more light upon jthe past, we begin to get a glimmering understanding of why a Christian era was absolutely necessary to mankind.

, An old oan non whic h was used by the citizens of San Domingo 380 years ago to keep Don Diego Colon, ■the son of Columbus, then appointed Governor, from arrogating to himself too much authority, is now on Sts way to Chicago. It was discovered by F. A. Ober, special commissioner to the West Indies. Another relic has been found in the marsh on the border of Lake Champlain at Dresden, N. ¥., in the shape of a presumably British cannon dated 1734. This will likely find its way to the collection being made for the World's Fair.

The Supreme Court of Minnesota has decided that contracts for a future delivery of grain “not intended to represent actual transactions, but merely to pay and receive the difference between the agreed price and the market price at a future day, are in the nature of wagers on the future prioe of the commodity, and are therefore void. ” This is good sense and it ought to be good law. Gamblers in the necessaries of life are even less entitled to the protection of law than are gamblers with chips representing money. History tells of the inventor, or at least of an early maker of the sword, but historians seem to have taken no trouble to embalm the memory of the one who invented the plow, and though farming is so many thousand years old, there is yet no one living who can tell theproducing capacity of an acre of ground. What we need is industrial schools of a higher order. Every farmer should be a chemist and a broadly intelligent man. His wife should be no less a cultured woman. We ought to be able to turn out finished workmen in all lines, instead of importing them, especially in agriculture. —■_—-g

The people of England are quite eure that the people of America, who constitute the majority of those who habitually use what Is called English, do not, as a matter of fact, speak English. There is some truth in the assertion, but there is just as much in the assertion that the people of England do not speak English. While the dialects of the people in the several states of the Union differ—in some cases very markedly—there are no more marked differences between them than there are between the dialects spoken in the east and west ends of London respectively.

Generations succeeded one another through countless ages before mankind began to read the story of creation as recorded on the rocks. Not until the dawning of our own century was the tremendous potency of steam comprehended. Within our own generation electricity has been harnessed for the of man. The earth and the fullness thereof is man's, and it is for man to make the most of it The father he pushes investigation the more he will learn It is conceivable that centuries hence man, having steadily progressed in the knowledge of physical environment, will read the history of out own day and describe it as an age oi ag-. •-•-. w ■ v ’

Augustin Daly, of New York, is to build k new theater in London. The National Union Company is dotting Kentucky with Alliance co-operative stares. - < A freight train went through a burning trestle near Birmingham, Ala., killing two of the trainmen. Oklahomaites have endorsed Non. John I. Dilie, recently of Indiana, for Governor to succeed Steele. The Missouri J Labor Federation will unite with the farmers to secure control of the Legislature this winter. The religious organizations of Louisiana are waging a bitter warfare against the lottery amendment to the State Constitution. . The cabinet makers’ strike in Chicago, which has been in existence since the Ist of September, involving about nine hundred men, has ended in a victory foi the employers. TheChilian situation is such a« to warrant some uneasiness. Indications are that this government will demand immediate and full reparation for tho Valparaisoaffray. Lieutenant Russell, who was sent by the (J. S. Government to explore the region sbout Mt. St. Elias, has arrived safely at Vancouier, B. C„ on his return trip. Mt St. Elias is between 18,000 and 19,000 feet high.

A New York customhouse officer recent y tried to wind up two music boxcs condgned to a firm of customhouse brokers. They would not wind, and an exainination lisclosed they were stuffed with jewelry ind silk. At the meeting of the trades and labor assembly at Chicago a committee was ap pointed to co-operate with other organized labor bodies to circulate petitions and igitatefer the release of Oscar Necbe, the Anarchist. A dispatch from Amesbury, Mass., says :here is no truth in the report that the ?oet Whittier is seriously 111, Judge Cate, irith whom Mr. Whittier lives, says that Sis health is as good as usual. Mr. Whittier called on several of his neighbors Satirday. '

Sylvester Frank Wilson, of New York, .he projector of female baseball teamsvho was eon vl cted of abducting fifteen* tear-old Lifebie Sutherland from her home n Binghamton, was sentenced to five rears in State prison and to pay a fine of 1,000 “or stand a day committed for each foliar until the last dollar is paid.” There are some peculiar consequences i the recent earthquake in central and orthern California. The flow of artesian nd gas wells has been increased, hot wa:r springs have become ice-cold and cold ■ ater springs are now warm. Tho earth s cracked and seamed in various places •nd from these openings water is gushing orth, o' all degrees*©! temperature. Eugeno F. Garcia, paying teller of tho ouisiana National Bank at New Orleans, s declared a defaulter in the sum $190,000- ■ knowledge of Garcia's shortage began to !evelop on tho 7th inst., and on the 17th le made a statement to the board of directors to the effect that he could only account for tho Shortage by errors in paying checks during the past fifteen years. Over ten thousand women attempted to register as voters at the approaching Chicago election, andof that number several hundred succeeded In getting their names on tho lists. Tho women who were reused will seek redress in the courts, and the election , commissioners promise to Make trouble for tho registration officers who accepted tho seven hundred female lames.

An exhaustive article from the pen of Professor Koch treats of tlie origin, prepara ticn and application of tuberculine. In :t the Professor declares that by chemical experiments ho has succeeded in purifying Ms lymph of all inflammatory matter. He will add that the effect of an application of pure lymph differs but little from the affects of an application of crude lymph. Only, he says, tho amount of the dose determines the effect. Ten thousand farmers tookpartinthe parade at Salina. Kan., Oct. 22. Buggies and wagons of all kinds were in line. The procession passed through the city to the fair grounds, where, after dinner, the multitude listened to a s[>eecb by Jerry Simpson. Of all the prominent Alliance men in the big parade Jerry was the favorite, and his name was conspicuous on the banners. One of them read: “For President of the United States, Jeremiah Simpson.” An old woman was seated in a wagon immediately behind, busily knitting, and on one of the streamers floated this legend: “Jerry shall have socks this winter.” About fifteen years ago Thomas A, Cook, who resides at Mount Carmel, Ky.married a Miss Procter, his cousin. The union was a happy one, and several children camo to bless their home. Six months ago Mrs. Cook died. Her mother, whose busband had died a year ago, had alwaysmade her home with the Cook family, and she and her son-in-law had always been more or less sweet to each other. In less than a montb.after tlie death of his wife Cook began paying court to his mother-in-law. He proposed, was accepted, and in order to add romance to their marriage they eloped and came to New Albany on the[2oth, and were united in marriage by Rev. T. N, Wilson, leaving immediately after the ceremony for their Kentucky homo. Cook is just forty years of age. and bis bride is sixty-one.