Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1892 — Two Plucky Girls. [ARTICLE]

Two Plucky Girls.

V-« - l From the foundation of the world ■mankind, in one form of exertion or toother, has sought to acquire the art pf creating something from nothing. ' There is a Latin name for every •bird, beast, reptile and insect, except the polly-wog. For some reason they fiidn't get hold of him. or it was decided that he was Latin enough without anything extra. : It has been found in Ohio that as Insane asylums multiply in number insanity becomes more prevalent, liaise a big poor fund t-ad {»aupers will become more numerous, but it is queer that people should go crazy in order lo fill up asylums. ~ Trusts contain in themselves the elements of their own destruction. They were organized to suspend the law of competetlon and grind the faces of the poor. As their stocks dwindle and collapse on thb market the public will shed no tears. Mb. Edward Bellamy wishes to reform- society so as to make women independent of men Tor their means of support The title husbands of American heiresses will not object provided ho does not disturb the dependence of husbands on the fortunes of their rich wives. Mr. Gladstone speaks frequently in the open air with his hat on, hut seldom or never feels any bad effects. He attributes this immunity from cold to the fact that while on his farm at Hawarden he has been accustomed tol chop and do other out-door work bareheaded. It is estimated that Araericaus havo stink $30,000,000 in Mexico in the last two years in mining and farming speculations, but you have only to form a compuny, put put a circular about a rich old hole in the ground dug by the Aztecs, and* there will be plenty to subscribe. t - ■■ . ■ —■ ■ Under the blue laws of Connecticut.' had a boy “plunked” an aged citizen with a snowball, or had John Henry advised an elder of the church to come off the perch, the results would have been so terrifying as to have been vividly remembered every hour la the day for a lifetime. Unless you are learned in tho science of political economy you will probably rate it a human thwarting of the purposes of a bountiful Providence that many a poor wretch should be pinched with 1 hunger in a country where some of the farming states aro burning corn for fuel. Tiie Washington woman who defends decollette dresses on the ground that they cost less than high-necked garments takes rather a short-sighted view of the matter, Decollette dresses come lower, to be sure, but the woman wbtrdefends the m ftn*gels”'triaO h' tho long run they involve extra expense for porous plasters. Tire sphere of woman continues to enlarge. The latest evidence to this effect comes from Connecticut where a young woman has just been given a license as a dispensing druggist. It deserves to be added that she not only got her license, but she passed the best examination that has yet been had before the examining board. Browning died and Tennyson wilt pass away just iu “the nick of time” to get in the corner with Shakespeare and the other famous bards. A London item s.iys Robert Browning is likely to be the last Of the English men of letters (save Tennyson) who will find a grave in Westminster Abbey. Tho interment of any more bodies there is opposed on sanitary grounds. It is the positive but not altogether disinterested opinion of physicians and undertakers that people are never bari.Ml alive, except during epidemics, when burials are necessarily performed with great haste. The change of position in the coffin which a dead body sometimes makes after burial is attributed to the generation within it of gases which by greatly bloating it turn it entirely over. ‘ There is always great room for eloquenoe upon a subject containing so imany qualities of greatnoss as does the 'history of New England. But it would be far more and far more valuable, if 6orae of this oratory could !be turned to a careful consideration ol he prob.cm* of tho present and the future, rather than give it entirely to ipraiee of the great deeds of men who have long since passed over to the ■majority.

A Belfast <rirl deserves comparison with ti e plucky bqtiimd Island girl who, fulling fro p a yacht, saris' out, “Lpff her up. Gap'n, nni I'll climb abOnri! ’ A sailboat capsized in the harbor the other day and Mr. W. H. Howe went, overboard. His live-year* old 'daughter, standing on the bank, exclaimed: “Hold on. papa! Stand right on your feet. I 1 m turning tc you Us soon na I can got my shoes end stockings off.” and she proceeded y> prepare to go to tho rescue.