Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1892 — That Settles it. [ARTICLE]

That Settles it.

The cheerfwl citizen who understand why stage passengertalwajrs sit still and submit to beta? robbed by highwaymen will undoubtedly applaud the bravery of that ■ California passenger who filled a robber full of buckshot the other day. But as the passenger himself was also riddled the next instant, it la hardly likely that his example will often be imitated by travelers. Walter Warner is a New Jersey boy. Walter, like most boys, was smart for his years—at least he thought so. He was handling a revolver and his mother bid him to be ■” aireful. 'laughed at her innocence. and to show her that it was not loaded he placed the barrel in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Walter may recover, and if he does it is to be hoped that the lesson’ wiß be a fruitful one.

Strange as it ni£v se&m, despite the wide circulation of newspapers, green goods operators still find many victims among green citizens. The New York newspapers almost daily chronicle experiences of confiding citizens of Tenessee, Indiana and other Western and Southern States where the people are notably innocent. New York operators are sharpers, Western investors are innocents. When sharpers and innocents meet, innnocence suffers every time. But does this virtue, in this line, deserve sympathy? It only needs fair dealing on the part of the sharpers to make it commit a crime. As a rule the innocents may well be thankful that they get Into no worse trouble than to lose their cash.- They might —and no doubt would —get into the penitentiary were their orders honestly filled. ■ ‘ ‘

The journey across Tibet whic^ l Captain Bowers has just completed is of more than usual interest because he is the first to cross from side to side the great unknown region stretching through the central part of that country. He has found in this region, still blank on our maps, a large salt lake, which, at an elevation of 17,930 feet, is believed to be the loftiest lake in the world. He has also discovered a splendid range of snowy mountains, witjh ope particularly 'lofty peak: which he thinks will prove the equal of Mt.~ Everest, now regarded as thp highest of mountains. In a journey of over 2,000 miles his route, sayq for a few miles, lay through a country that was never visited by white men before. We do not wonder that the party suffered severe hardships when ~ we read that for two weeks the route was over a table land 17,000 feet high, an elevation that three Mount Washingtons, piled one on top of the other, would hardly exceed. Captain Bowers’ journey will take high rank am mg recent explorations.

The first map of the world ever made, it is reported, will be exhibited at the Exposition. A cablegram from London states that Pope Leo consented to its., loan from the Vatican library. It is known as the tliege Ribere map and was begun in 1494 and finished in 1529. It is accompanied by a contemporary copy of the same map containing the famous bisecting line which; Pope Alexander VI. drew/ across it to settle the claims of Spain and Portugal to American territory. J t was bequeathed by Cardinal Borgia to the Vatican library, and is the same, which Pope Pius IX refused to allow/ the American government' to have even a copy of. It is three feet \v jeveia, aiid is in an excellent state of preservation. It begins with the Molucca group and ends with the other half? The Nile is traced to three lakes. Russia and Siberia are put down as barren and unknown countries. America makes a s’fiowy~ appearance with Yucatan, Brazil and New Spain distinctly indicated, the north terminating with Labrador. .

Detroit Tribune. , . , “So it is really true' that old Siiverbrique has gone under, is it?” \ “Yes, square failure, too. The poor old devil hasn’t got a cent." “That’s bad. Wonder what that proud daughter of his will do?” “Oh, she’s going tobecome a professional beauty.” “You don’t say so! How do you know?” “Well, I saw her with an actor this afterrmon. and her hosiery is to be illustrated in the Sunday Moon next week. To make a fine satchet powder take of orris root, powdered, three ounces ; of powdered starch three Ounces, of ground musk seed one-half ounce, of essence of bergamot one-quarter aunce, of essence of musk one-quar-ter ounce, of attar a! roses thirteen Orops. ' .