Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

■ : '[ . '-J' . ■■ * CjlVt , &*•» difthl* thought that coal is Marco Bozxaris would be isfcisfitxl wit& the amount of striking pWW|pß|i on tuis year. i*Jill*OTS are only ten cents apiece » Central America. There is no MgWfey fog a man looking after his ||pß profanity iu that portion of the are eight sudden deaths among men to one among women It always does take a woman an inestcusably long time to get ready to SB= — ©Wfc notices at the summer hotels tbftt it isn’t the girls who talk loud to be heard from the tennis, grounds to the bowling alleys who have a crowd of young men about. ■■

New Jersey real estate rales higher than that of any other Slate in and it is noteworthy in this connection that road reform has ■Sip# jpW»ter progress there than in’ ley dfter part of the country. SBB famous speeches of men on the battle field or the bed of death Arts often exaggerated, under rigid pStaminatloa they are apt to lose in Acridity of rhetoric. They generally gain in terseness. Cambroonne's reply at Waterloo to the summons to sarrender is famous in point. And now the exact words vised by Cteind of Tennessee, when the min•m threaten with death If he I not as poetical as the his purpose,

Unparliamentary committee rc •eotly appointed in Ureat Britain to •Mamina the subject of co’or blindMH has made a very interesting re. port, from which it appears that nearly 4per cent of the male popula* Son are either partially or wholly do* Aaient in the capacity to distinguish rightly the primary colors of the spectrum. As to the causes of color bCndness the committee reports that It comes in agreater number of cases from congenital defects that cannot he remedied; but the committee also ssports that it frequently comes from the excessive use of tobacco, this is a new argument against the weed, if aay is needed. It might be need against cigarettes if there were any reason to believe that they are eomposed very largely of tobacco.

Ta» telegraph has erred. Whittier Is not dead. What was hurried St Ames bury was not he The late of mortality has indeed overtaken Us body. His fiesh-tbat frail aud perishable environment of him—has in truth come to the limit of its vitality, and. passing the boundary of mdsteaoe, must henceforth be counted among the results of decay. This in all that has happened in what the wires have told us, that “Whittier is dead." For the poet himself has not died. The vocabulary of the world, vast as it is, has in it no word of death for him. He has been translated. He has been lifted and borne up beyond our sight He lias been assigned a new residence, aud now •raaments a nobler sphere. Deathlas broken the mask that gave him presentation to our gaze, and the beauty that was behind it has be come invisible. Whittier has at last received the supreme suffrage aud is new an immortal.

Tax Olympic Club, of New Orleans, has recently furnished a considerable quantity of stuff called news for tho papers of the country. It is a sad commentary on t Ik; boasted moral and religious intelligence of ear people that there should be a demand upon toe newspapers to give every detail that takes A Jrtace fn these dens of moral lon rosy. With the newspapers filling column alter column of their issues wiib ffccso nauseating incidents to be t«adin the homes of the most in tel ' MpMlii-ciMSi is it to be wondered at the church makes faiut prog-eas {a 'bpUgbteoiflg and ennobling hu inanity? Sport for sport's sake is eminently proper, but prize lighting has long since pafised the dead imo of amusement for amusement s sake There is no element of sport in pr m fighting. Snort is incompatible with ludeousness, and the inhuman I r-.i talities of the prize ring are mildly termed hideous. Sport as a prefer aioa is no longer termed snort.. It , 4qptt4od class of gamblers and blacklegs If ire would rid ourselves -;. ” ' 4 _ , . ..

1 A North Carolina Woman gave birth to A Billion dollar trn occurred at Bocknway Beach, L.L Jacob Hirsph, a newspaper correspondent. was cowhided by Llzzte Senxales, a Philadelphia actress. A suburban train on the Northern Petite road was derailed is Evanston, Wednesday morning, Tlio engineer and f reman ware seriously Injured. / A Pittsburg grand jury baa re to mod true bills against 167 Homesteaders for murder and aggravated riot, It is not D. A. McKinley, Hawaiian consul at San Francisco, and brother of Governor McKinley, of Ohio, who was stricken with paralysis Sunday, died Monday. Prof. B. C. Pickdring, tbo director of the Harvard College observatory, has issued a Circular suggesting tbe erection of a tele*cops ea the Andes, near Aroqaippa, Pern. A singular dliesse is prevaHlng among horns In the southern part ol Jo Daviess county, lillnoli. It resembles distemper, hut ts mors fatal and causes more sudden deaths. t Charles Reed, for many years advance agantfor Forepaugh's clrcos, died at New York. Tuesday, under eireamitaßces that lead the police to behove hit death was hastened by bis wife. Patrick O'Connor, who Is alleged to have used bis atemberslilp-in the Clan-na-Gae! to betray tbe Homestead strike leaders, is I said to hav» fed to es;ape the vengeaaco of his fe.-’o n members,

It Is reported that “Judge’' SLort, lead* or es tbe notorious band of cattle thieve), with headqu.rters in the Bad Lands, hat been captured and lynched by ranchmen, and that several of his tand have been jelled. ■■■:'- An antopsy held at New York on the body of Charles heed, formorly advance agent of circus, showed that death was dneto natural causes. Mrs. Lilli* Reed was accordingly released from custody. Tho Chinos# Six Companies of San Francisco have issued a proclamation warping Chinese residing In this country not to obey the Geary registration law. They have al*e appealed to their Emperor for protection. The Chicago express train crashed Into a freight tialn on the Ik Wayne road at Shrove, 0., Wednesday morning. Six were killed outright, three seriously Injured and four are missing, supposed to have been also klllod and under the debris.

/■ Tbafttl River (Mats.) Globe prints a Statement to the effect that Lizzie Bordon* several weeks before the murders, con soiled a Providence lawyer as to the disposition of her father’s property in the event of bis death. The lawyer will give evidence at the trial. The business portion of the little town of Marengo, 111., was almost entirely wiped out by Are Tuesday. There I* no adequate fire department in tbe town, and tho citizens were powerless to slop the flames. The Loss is about 140,000, with about 18,Col Insurance. Several hundred emigrants latoly arrived on tho Sardinian and other steamers, having through tiekota for tho United States, are held atLlverpool awaiting tho dedslbn of the United Slates government as so whether they will be allowed to etii ter after having been duly disiufocted at Grosso island by tho railroad companies. The condition of these people is deplorable, many of them not having a cent whurewitU in obtain either skelter or -food. According to a Chicago paper, the waich worn bT John Milton In llfo is to he seen in a shop In that city. It was made in Geneva In 1670. The story told is that it was pawned in St. Louis about a Tear ago by the Marquis Costello do Shamer, of Verona, who found hirasolf short of fuada. lie exhibited a ccrtideate 0* genuineness slgued by the curator of the British Museum. Tho watch, it is said, was made for Milton with raised figures on the die!, so that the blind poet could read the time of day with bis fingers.

The goners' terra of the Third Department, New York, Wednesday morning banded down a decision in the legislative apportionment rase of The People ex rol George C, Carter, of Utica, against Frank Ktce Secretary of State. Tho motion of the application for a mandamus and an injunction was denied aud the apportionment by the extra session was declared c insiliutloual. The opinion was by Mavham, P. J.. and Justice Herrick. Justleo l'etnam expressed no opinion, not having had time to examine tnto the case. Chain [.ion Corbett's brother, Jack Corbett. has escaped from the House of Correction, where he was serving a threo years’ seutense for forgery. Young Corbett, wiio is a strapping, handsome fellow. .Ug as his moro famous brother is an opium fiend, and about two years ago he forged his fathers namo to a check in order to buy ‘ dope." As tin's was the climax of a long series of s'milar offonses, the father allowed tho boy to lie prosecuted aud sentenced. He had ouly seven moro months to serve. Iu a two-room shanty In the suburbs of Bay City, Mich., foul with the gathered filth of weeks the dead body of Clara Uosmcr was found lying on the bed where her helplessly crippled husband has been lying for years. She had boon attacked with fever several days ago, aud with he one to ourse her Lad literally, so the physicians say, starved to death. The hnsbaut, too. Is alsolu the throes of death from Jack of food. lie Is scarcely ab.e to speatc. but says over a week has elupsed Sici-e any thing his parsed his lips. lie d a votersu of Ui« war. but In spile of hil wounf* that made h:m a helpless cripple, bas steadily refused to apply fora pension.