Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Os* €. Vogelsang, a Texas scientist, faas discovered that we live inside of the earth, that the sun, ifioon and stars art similarly hemmed in, I that the sun is only ®0 miles dis-. taataad but eight}’ miles in circumference. The whole outfit, he declares, was originally made to amuse tbe angels. ====* These people who are speaking of Mars and ‘/her” moons are rusty in mythology or perverse as to the sacredness of traditions. The ancient always invested the namesake of the fiery orbit with the sternest attributes, and to speak of him in the -feminine gender looks like a shrewd campaign concession to the female suffragists. The discovery of the photographic trick by which Chinamen have been imported contrary to law has destroyed one conviction which has hitherto been well nigh universal among Caucasians. Tha 1 conviction was that Chinamen were so much alike that it was impossible to tell one from another. The camera, it seems, has had no difficulty in distinguishing them, and the United States officials have now learned -the lesson. ~ —-—-

A New Haven judge has officially declared that newspapers must not criticise the bench lest they encourage lawlessness by so doing. This might be sound doctrine if courts were infallible, but there have been those who were ignorant, corrupt or prejudiced beyond tbe possibility of administering justice. In fact some have been the victims of all these shortcomings, and mere criticism was too good for them- The judge who respects the law and his high calling finds his hands strengthened by the newspapers.

'■t Mars has now reached its nearest point to the earth, 35,000,000 miles, which the Lick telescope brings to a distance of 50,000. A few generations hence science may have improved on even this magnificent instrument. Camille Flammarion scouts the idea of Mars’s inhabitants being Esquimaux, and declares that they are people in a high state of and have been trying to signal to us for years. This is pure sonjecture, of course, but full of romantic possibility worthy the pen of Jules Verne. , ,The Intercontinental Railway which will make possible a trip be~ tween-New York and Patagonia at no distant day, is making fair progress. Three surveying parties are now at work in Central America, Cotenibta and-Pera." The line in South America will follow the central val. ley between the western and the central ranges of the Andes. The towns along the proposed route are . enthusiastic for its progress. It is' .probable that within five years a continuous railway route may exist between New York and Patagonia, and this desolate land will open a new field for ■ enterprise, and Terra del Fuego can be utilized as a summer resort.

The news of the failure of Baron Hirschs object of founding Jewish colonies in the Argentine Republic will not surprise any one who understands the conditions of existeuce in that country and the idiosyncrasies of the Russian Jews who were sent there. Some of those expelled from Russia have tried Brazil as wpR as Argentine, but they have not been able to get along in either country. There are reasons for this failure. They are nearly all in a state of pbv- i erty; they are unwjlling to engage in agricultural pursuits; they cannot find opportunities of trading; they are not skilled operatives in any braueh of industry; they refuse to work as common laborers; they do not assimilate with the native population; they are obnoxious to manv of the adherents of the Catholic church: their presence is not regarded as desirable by any South American government. Those of them who went to Brazil two years ago have left the country in despair, and those of them who went to Argentine arc reported to be in a dreadful plight. The only country in which the Jews driven outr-of Russia have been able U» get along is the United States. It is in this country that the great body of the Jews of Russia are desirous pi settling. We have a report from Paris that Baron Hirsch is coming over here to ascertain whether room can be found for the three and a half millions bf them whom he has offered to assist in leaving Russia.—Js’ew York Son.

The strike at Buffalo i* virtually ended All freight is being moved promptly. Twenty-four houses were, burned at Genera. 111., on the 19th'. Loss, $175,00a Mrs; WilUam Lawrence and daughter* of Pomona, Kan., were killed ou 4 railroad crossing." "■ Cart Axelson, of New York city. »m mitted suicide because bis wife bore him a girl instead of a boy. . f During August the Treasury Depart- : meat has seat out Between 16.000,000 and $7,000,000 to move the crops. Tho Knights of'Pythias are gathered at, Kansas City in great numbers. The Supreme Lodge is in session there. Hughes & PattersoD, of Philadelphia’ have beaten their amalgamated employes and are running in full jdast with scabs. Williams. Walsh, ex-editor of Lippineott's Magazine, was fined $25 at Cape May, X. Y., for hugging a girl on the street. President Pellicrinl, of the Argentine Republic, lias resigned in consequence of a conflict between the executive and Con gross Attorney General Hunt, of Illinois, has brought suit for $200,000 against the Monon Raiiraid Company for back tales aud damages. ' Thomas Neil Cream, the American doctor, lias been held to an English • grand jufyoii the charge of poisoning four girls of London. A California judge decided that the day of execution having passed a condemned murderer is dead in the eyes of the law, though not hangqd. Woodville, near Jackson, Mich., is sinking into the earth. A number of abandoned mines are under the place, and they have probably caved in. Edwaid Burns, the kidnapped son of John Burns, of New York, has been located in Seattle, Wush. He was taken ip 1875. when only six years of age. —— Thomas Drew, aged twenty-five of Wichita, Kan., committed suicide in the presence of his nJother by laying his head on a rail over which a fast train passed. The Buffalo switchmen’s strike has been ; declared off and all the men that can will ; return to work. It is believed about onehalf of those who struck will be taken tack. Among tbo deaths announced on the 24th were those of Gen. Fonseca, the first President of Brazil; ex. Gov. Myron 11. Clarke, of New York, and ex -Gov. E. L. Lowe, of Maryland. 1 Robbers tried to wreck the fast Chicago and' New York express ou the Pennsylvania road, near Pittsburg, and a farmer who discovered the plot and frustrated the game was twice shot. The TexaS National Guard is in danger of disruption, and several companies have surrendered their commissions. It Is caused by political favoritism, which, it is claimed, has been shown. President Gompers, of the Federation of Labor; has adjusted the trouble between the Chicago unions and musicians, Asa result union horn blowers will be employed for the Labor Day parade. The biggest strike in the history of Jimtown, Colo., has just been made in the Shallow Creek district. It has a lead of cjuarts. rich in sulphurets, which essays from 865 to I.OCO ounces in silver. At a meeting of the coal operators Held ! In Pittsburg on the 23d, it was decided to reduce the wages of their miners to three cents per bushel. It is expected the miners, who number 10.000, will strike. The London Standard calls President Harrison’s action in the St. Mary's cana' matter “vexatious and unfriendly.” saying; “We suppose it is a pretext to Dose as the exponent of a spirited foreign policy.”

Homestead strikers deny tbafc-tßcy are boycotting businessmen or persecu ting the wives of non-nnionists. Some of the new employes of the-Carnegie mills may organize a militia company and apply for a charter. The Treasury Department has forbidden tho employment of British Columbia Indians in the hop fields of Washington. Growers' have been in the habit of import ing the red men under contract at lower rates than home whites or Indians would work.

Mrs. Sarah Steiner, a wealthy widow of Lima, 0., answered a matrimonial advertisement, and as a result married M. F Munson, claiming to be a well-to-do business man of Sherwood. After three weeks Munson borrowed SI,OOO of ilie bride and skipped. Since then she has learned that he has five other wivos. A woman named Greenbaum, noar Saginaw, Mich., is reported to have left her | child asleep in a wagon while she went' j berrying in the woods. When she re- 1 i turned she found that some animal, prob ; i »bly a lynx, had devoured her child al j but one foot. She is distracted and may | lose her reason. A cloudburst visited Roanoke, Va..' Tuesday night, and within half an hour over one hundrod thousand dollars worth i j of damago had been done, and one life, if j hot moro, was lost. The business portion 1 | of the city was tbo principal sufferer.! Every store on Salem avenue and Jefferson street was flooded and their contents badly damaged. By the way, here is another Presidential | ticket; For President, Simon Wing", of ' I Boston; Vice President, Charles H. West- j cott. of Brooklyn. Mr. Wiug is a tailor' and Mr. Westcott is a carpenter. They were nominated at New York Sunflay by the Socialists. Representatives were present from New York, Massachusetts, Penn sylvanla. New Jersey and Connecticut.. 1 Fire at New York Saturday, burned the Metropolitan Opera-house aud a manufacturing building, with a less of one probably more, lives, and a money loss of nearly $1,000,003. At Augusta. Ga.. the j Chronicle and other properties were destroyed with enormous loss. ;Potoskey. Miss., loss $2)0,000 worth of lunber. Armours packing house, at Ka tsas City, : Mo., was damaged by Pit. Thomas Dunn’s mouth has b cn closed by law. He set up in his ans ter in the Circuit Court at Detroit, that he was using the voice God gave him, and that so far he bad been very well pleased vfith it, and he thought the neighbor’s ought not to abject. But Mr*. Charlotte Wjhitely ob

jeeted to Its volume, declaring it a nub. ance and a depredator of property. J udge Krevoort believed her, and an injunction restrains him from loud talking and swearing. The case will go to the Supreme Court • ■ * While a number or workmen were getting tlmber on the Kaw Indian reservation, north of Guthrie, Qkia... they un-

earthed the bones of some mammoth animal. A tusk that was found wag five feet in length, and the largest end was over throe feet in circumference. The bone from the knde to the lrip joint was over fire fact in length, and the center was twenty-five inches in circumference. At the haunches the bones were over five feet, aud the ribs were over four feet in leugth. Joseph J. McGradv- who is employed by the City Board of Education, was held up by a highwayman Tuesday, while driving near the World's Fair grounds Chicago. When first commanded to halt by the robber, McGrady put the whip to his horse und endeavored to get away. The highwayman fired at him, the bullet striking the horse and frightening it so that it broke away from the buggy . McGrady attempted to escape, but the bullet* came so thickly about his head that hestopped. The highwayman made him hold up his hands and submit to a search, but $156 that hohad with him was not discovered. The robbery took place on Stony Island avenue, a much traveled thoroughfare, aud the shots were heard by workman ou the Fair grounds who came to McGrady’s assistance, but Arrived too ietle to help him. Tire robber was arrested later by tbe police aud fully , identified. Tbe annual report of W. J 2. Simends, Commissioner of Patents, to the Secretary of the Interior, shows that during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1892, applications for patents aud caveats were received as follows: Letters patent, 39,987: designs patent, 983; reissue patents, 114; registra tion of trademarks, 1.919; registration of labels,- 644: caveats, 2;4otr mairtng s total of 45,945, There were during that period 23,626 patents granted, including reissues and desigus; 1.56! trade marks registered, and six labels registered; 12.427 patents expired during tiro year. - The receipts from all sources during the year were sl,267,727; expenditures $1.114,134; leaving a surplus for the year of 1154,513. Since its establishment the Patent Office has turned into the treasury $4,10.',411 above its expenditures. The number of applications awaiting action on the part of the office on June 30, was 9,447. The Commissioner makes no recommendation as to needed legislation, increase of force, pr the crowded and unsanitary condition of the Patent Office Building.

FOREIGN. Cholera has reached Antwerp. Japan advices contain the usual budget of disasters. At Tokushima 150 persons were drowned and 2,C00 houses swept away by a flood. An earthquake fissure near Tokushima swallowed up 160 houses and 10) people. Five hundred houses were submerged and 10) persons drowned by floods at Okuyama Tbo press of Canada, generally: bitterly denounces the rctaliit >ry proclamation issued by President Harrison. The government organs consider that Canada has done enough in promising to abolish rebates at*the close of the of tho soason, and some of these suggest tho abrogation of the treaty of Washington. A passenger on the steamer Australia, which arrived at San Francisco from Honolulu, Thursday, says that for some time the Louisiana Lottery has had agents in Honolulu, the object being to obtain ebarter from the Hawaiian Legislature. Their operations have been conducted with the utmost secrecy, and few people outside of those Interested know anything about tho matter, In return for the charter the company wtll agree to pay $1,000,* 000 toward a cable; to run a weekly Hue of steamers to San Francisco: to pay onehalf of the expenses of the government; to pay $100.(03 per year to different local enterprises, and to erect buildings for offices, directors, inspectors, etc. The money for preliminary payment is already in Honolulu, aud If tho Legislature accepts the proposition of the company $500,000 will be afloat in Honolulu In thirty davs. Owing to the present depressed state of the finances of the islands this would prove a veritable bonanza, and it is quite probable that the company will receive & charter. Still there Is a strong missionary spirit in Hawaii and a fierce assault will be made on tbe bill when it is brought before the Legislature,