Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Kansas seems to be long on bank robber and short on liverymen with Winchesters. j• Trike were 8,838 siuu.nts in thi medical univerities .of the German Empire last year. The subjects of Great Britain ar* the most tremendous patent medicine swallowers on the globe. Now that the election is over, why not prepare for a general onslaught on the Thanksgiving turkey? Though the Pope’s jubilee does not take place until next year, present; have already begun to arrive at the Vatican. ;■ t j Paris is having a very serious Unrein trying to discover a second “Jack the Ripper ” that has been committing atrocious murders in that city. That Chicago telephone operator who eloped with three Bisters named Leyden will do well to keep bis eyes open. Leyden jar 3 are not good things to fool with.

After Nov. 15, the New York policemen will not be permitted to carry clubs. That’s right. If a New York policeman can't protect himself with his revolver ho should get off the force. The Delsarte business is asueeess. A New York girl, who is an expert; was confronted by a burglar, let out a terrific yell, kicked the fellow in the chin and knocked him down stairs end over end. It is alleged that 40.000 families in the East End of London are etarv® log. Representatives of these unfortunate people recently paraded the streets and demanded municipal employment. A Mr, Grundy, at a recent English diocesan conference, hit a popular chord when he said that church services should be bright, beautiful and brief. The average sermon can )e boiled down to ten or fifteen miuites, at most, without loss of stilitance. The possibilities of the nickel in the slot scheme appear unlimited. II has been utilized m English railway coaches for the furnishing of electric light by which to read. A small box contains the me-hanism of the lamp. By inserting a penny and touching a jight is supplied for half an hour and a repetit on of the process insures another half hour’s illlumination. It is a system liable to extend. Z 4

Mr. Stanley, the explorer, lias at (hSt shown himself in his true colors us the deadly foe of America and some of our chief industries. In pleading for J3ritish colonization o! Africa, he says: "I think we might raise just as good hogs in the uplands of British Central Africa as the Americans do on the prairie lands of Illinois.’’ If he can get a breed will not make the floors of passenger oars impassable or charge s2l a day for a carriage he will certainly lay over the Illinois variety.

The French, suvs a recent dispatch, has captured Cama and Attorney, and the war with Dahomey is therefore probably at an end. This war began August 16, and was the quickest and most brilliant invasion of an African country yet made by a European power. The amazons, or women warriors, are said to have fought bravely, but could not contend against the superior disciplined civilized forces. The loss to the French was triffiing, to the Dahom eyaos very heavy. The letter hurriedly dictated by President Harrison to his townsoeopie of Indianapolis when ho left there on the day of Mrs. Harrison's funeral is a most touching composition. One can hardly read it witli dry eyes: “My Dear Old Friends and Neighbors: • , •*1 cannot leave you without saylog that the tender and gracious sympathy which you have to day shown for my children, and much, more, the touchlug evidences you have given of*vour love for the dear wife and mother, have deep’y. moved our hearts. We yearn to tarry with yon and to rest near the hallowed spot where your loving hands have laid our dead; but the little grandchildren watch in wondering silence lor our return and need our care.uud dome public business will not loogei wait upon my sorrow. May a gru ciout God keep and bless you all ’ ''Most gratefully yours, .

Dr. FT. A. Slade, the xcin'fnaltst rnwlinm was arrested in a Slcur Dity lodging house Munday, and adjudged itjsaue. Bis case is considered hoj'»!es<j, H ttcklebem are again spring* injj up in the great march u< in Waiter)on burned one year ago. and the owner is hopeful thatln tiroß he will harvest more berries than ever before. TtmL'amegfe company propose to erect and open other iniiis for the piHjK>so of onaldng armor plate, the present rapacity of tlio companyTieirnt lTisiiTßeient to moot the demands of the government under the contract. —7 r — L 5 Mrs. Colquitt, wife of the Senator, was stri'ekea with paralysis at lier home in A tlenta, (la., Thursday evening, and is now In a critical condition. Mrs. Col uitt had recently been in the best of health. Sen*tor Colquitt has Coen con lined to his own oed from a paralyt.icstrokesinco lust, July* dohn Still, a colored Inmate ol tlo Reform School at New Brunswick, N. 11., completed the sixty-eighth day of a long frstTuesday. Although he lias become very woal< ho does not show signs of immediate di9M)l 111 ion. The authorities are puz/ied over the esse ami the physicians who have seen Still say his vitality ia remarkable, At a monster Democratic ratification mooting at Lexington, Ky . Thursday niri.t, Joe Blackburn attempted to ad-fire-s ten thousand Democrats, but they refused to listen to Itlnt. ile was not a Cleveland man at Chicago and the Kentuckians, who love Cleveland, did no 1 want to hear any man who wo.s against him. Tlmv drowned his voice with their t:n horns and yells, and after a few min. utos he quit in disgust. foheiqn. The council of ministers in Paris has decided, under the responsibility of M. IK*»r... Minister of Justice, to proceed against, the Panama Canal Company. The time administrators and all the contractors are made parlies to tlio proceedings* It Is claimed that in the suit it will he 'shown that $150,000,000 has been misap' pr< p.luted.