Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1892 — The Unlucky Discovery. [ARTICLE]

The Unlucky Discovery.

The President’s message was read in Congress Tuesday. Like all of Mr. Harrison’s annual messages, it is an exhaustive and most statesman-like paper, covering ail the grounds which such a document is supposed to cover. While being, in no sense, a partisan production, it still presents plenty of evidence that Mr. Harrison is still a firm Protectionist and an unflinching Republican. The statement being made by the Democrats that there is a deficit in the National treasury is false. The balance is as large as the law requires and large enough for all practice} purposes. The policy of Harrison’s administration has been to use the surplus topsy off the national debt and stop interest rather than to pile up money i 5 certain favored banKS, as was done by CWafcrd. Tn tbi* />onnoAion there are certain figures you should call the attention of youi’ Democratic friends to when you hear any talk of the surplus disappearing. During Harrison’s administration $113,00G,u00 U-lwro licw been paid out in penrens than during Cleveiunu’s administration, and under Harr'sort’s adrr.'. the public debt has been reduced $259,073,240. The dea.h of Jay Go :. . Inch occured last Friday, at th ■ parativelv earlv age of 50 years, illustiKtes once mc.re the powerlessness of mere wealth to bring happf>te='-fi-r tffr nr +Toe retTpec.k in death. Thegreat ..papersof the country have giyen their opinions of his life and character, and while the most of these paners have found something good to say of him, together Him it .it w!.lci; <as Hot good, yel on the w holt Mr. Gould would find his newspaper otntuarTOß st mi pleasant reading il he were -to 7t*|uii again to life. He was entirely unscrupulous in bis mauiKT of , obtaining wealth, although in -r» k>, perhaps, than the common run of speculative business men, and unlike so many other modern • men of great wealth, he did not make any amends for his greed iu grasping by generosity in distributing. He not only got all he could, but he ept nil he got; end he therefore lias gone down to his death uKKirmd “nly , by his moat immediate Friends and relatives- .... .. '.I " " • ' n * and, loiuiHuitmof htn-country-aon, ae an object of their execration

The discovery has been made that on one side of the new quarter dollar thereare thirteen sepa= rate representations of the number thirteen. It was probably the intantjon of the designer of the quarter to have thirteen occur thirteen times, but there are few people who have noticed this fact. There are thirteen- stars, thirteen letters in the scroll held in the eagle’s beat, thirteen marginal feathers in each wing, thirteen tail feathers, thirteen parallel lines in the shield, thirteen horizontal bars, thirteen arrow heads in one foot, thirteen leaves on the branchin the other foot, and thirteen letters in tli'(W word quititTei* dollar.