Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1892 — THE HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE HEWS OF THE WEEK.

In sport in" circles it is said that foot ball is destined to be the coming sport. The base ball cranks ought to make a success at it. They are noted for kicking. - Now that Connecticut has voted against prohibition it is clear that when the wind is southerly the land of steady habits knows bard cider from applejack.s * American workingmen may read ••Looking Backward” from motives of curiosity, but they are not likely to adopt it as a text-book on industrial The man who likes his own talk best should be shut up with a phonograph; but such a man is not satisfied unless other people hear him. That is what makes him a nuisance. Within eighteen months eight persons have been killed by the electric wires in New York city, and yet some people are of the opinion that, murderers can not be deprived of life by electrcity.. A Kentuckv paper thinks it a singular thing that a river’s head is not nearly as big as its mouth. Not at all. That is merely a quality which. establishes the claim of the rivers tc a leading place in politics. The latest successful book in London is “Westward Ho,” of which in a few days 100,030 copies were sold. Westward ho! has been very popular in this country for a century. The same cannot be said of the New England hoe. Professor Garland has a story in a recent number of Harper’s Weekly entitled “Under The Lion’s Paw.” It is a Kansas story and has reference to the land questiop. Kansas has the happy faculty of getting into literature more frequently than any of the sisterhood. The Indians of the Five Nations take great interest in news from the surrounding states, as well as within tho borders of their own nations. Ten weekly newspapers are published Within the territory, and a number of daily newspapers from the states are taken by the Indians. The great secret of success in life is this: Do whatever you can do best, regardless of any competition, and when you have decided what you can do best, do it with all your might and with all your energy, not overtaxing the system, but devoting the entire business time to one industry. The restaurateur who furnished the luncheon to the "South American delegates at the white house has had experience with six presidents. He says; is quite liberal. There were four cases of champagne, besides sherry and Chateau Margaux, and three cases of champagne were drunk. There was no limit placed upon anything.” ' Matrimonial ventures are discouraged by the decision of Land Commissioner Gross that husband and wife cannot “hold down” two homestead claims by living in a house built on the line between two farms. Courting of neighbors will now have to be prolonged until the expiration of the time fixed by law before the claims may be proved up. Prof. Behrend, an English medical authority, who anticipated the discovery of Koch, points out that in the course of a practice of thirty years, largely among Hebrew patients, he has not met a single case of phthisis in the members of that faith, their immunity from its attacks being undoubtedly due to the Jewish method of examiuing and slaughtering cattle. The depredations of the seal pirates in Alaskan waters are becoming so serious that the Alaska Commercial company will not renew its lease of the American seal islands unless the United States guarantees protection from the illicit hunter. The result of the indiscriminate slaughter that is one of the reprehensible features of hunting done on the sly is already evident in a decrease in the average size of seals taken. It will, perhaps, strike most people as somewhat odd that there is a steady importation to America of Irish jaunt-ing-cars. According to the carriagemakers, a certain number of enthusiastic Irishmen have a yearning after their native form of conveyance at certain periods of their lives, and straightaway send over to Ireland for a car. Once here, however, the cars are usually laid aside after the novelty has worn off. ' '! " 1 ~ One of the very painful spectacles of life is to sea a little child half suffocated in a paroxysm of whooping cough. Here is a way to break up the paroxysm at once, commended as infallible by some learned practitioners in Germany and Switzerland. Put the first and second fingers behind the ascending branch of the lower jawbone and your thumbs upon the Ohio, and then draw the lower jaw forward and depress ths chin by t&e same movement, and toll MW,;, ■

A red hot irrolite feH at Albany, Ore., Friday. Extremely cold weather is reported in Kansas. Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, died on the 15th. Spain will send a military band of 100 pieces to the Chicago Fair. Vice-president-elect Stevenson has gone “’Way down South in Dixie.” Two men were killed and two fatally wounded in a fight near Walton, Ky. Saturday. The funeral of the late Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, took place at Lexington, Ky., Mon“day77 The question of Sunday opening of the World's Fair will be dragged into tho courts shortly. Jim Bond, a negro, was lynched at Guthrie, Ky,. Monday, for an attempted assault upon Mrs. Irvington. F. J. Austin, cashier of A. G. Spaulding, Chicago, was mortally wounded by burglars Monday morning. Warrants have been sworn out for Hugh Dempsey et al. for complicity in the Homestead poison plot. In an amateur stage performance at Hampshire, 111. the hero was accidentally and seriously stabbed. The freight depot of the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad at Grand RapidsMich , burned on tho 16th, Bishop O’Hara, of tho Catholic church, at Scranton, Pa., celebrated his golden jubilee as a priest this week. It is said the Rock Island road will supplant the telegraph with the telephone in order to outwit the strikers. Tho badly ffiutilajed remains of a man were found in a box at Quincy, 111., Mon. day. The affair is a mystery. Daisy Scott, a fourteen year old girl of Columbus, O„ fooled with a new revolver Sunday night with fatal results. Rev. Aaron Thompson, an old Presbyterian minister, well known in Indiana, died at Keokuk, la., Monday evening. After this Kansas City’s dog killer will get 25 cen ts for eae h dog-he-kills. and m us 4 show the tail as evidence of the killing. The North German Lloyd steamship Traye carried from New York to Europe Thursday $2,750,000 in gold and 4175,000 in silver. C. Barnum Seely, favorite grandson of the great showman, has sued the executor 3 of bis late grandfather’s wifi, claiming $2,000,000. Elgin laborers were killed and five others injured on the Great Northern railroadat Nelson Station. Minn., Sunday, by a collision. • The Huggins cracker factory at Kansas City was burned on th® 16th. Several of the employes narrowly escaped from tb 0 burning building. 2Dennin E. Sibley, one of the oldest board of trade dealers of Chicago, a: signed on Monday with liabilities of 4268.228.C2 and unknown assets. ' Frederick Bonner, the horseman, attributes all the recent remarkable track records to the pneumatic tire, and intimates that the limit has not been reached. Mr. Blaine’s condition on the 17th was believed by others than the family to be serious. No definite information was obtainable from his physicians or family. Pugilist Joe Goddart wants to fight Corbett for $5,000 to 416,000 a side, and has put up 42,500 on the challenge, which is open to Mitchell if. Corbett doos not accept. Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Ryan, of Barn-

well, S. C., were poisonedßy-s-eeteFW-maidservant. Mrs. Ryan died. Mrs. Brown will recover. The servant confessed and is in jail. Reports on Tuesday indicated that Mr. Blaine was somewhat better, tindthc physicians were hopeful of temporary recovery, but refused to make predictions as to tho length of time the distinguished statesman would live. Chicago detectives on the 16th unearthed a gigantic lottery fraud in a concern run by J. D. Sanger, who has been turning out thousands of bogus tickets in imitation of the Louisiana and other lottery companies, and selling them at full price. Harry Stumbaugh, while intoxicated, flaed a shotgun into a crowd of children returning home from chireh at Nelsonville. Ohio. Two small girls, daughters of Isaaiah Koon and Alex McComb, were struck in the shoulder and back of the head. The wounds are fatal. There was no motive for the shooting. Stumbaugh was arrested. •