Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Thb liver has much to do with th: circulation. How are your respective livers, gentlemen? Chicago waiters are practicing foi the fee system during the world’* fair. One of them is in jail for bur Kiary- _______ The Turkish Sultan has approved the order of his war ministei' limiting all officers of the army under the rank of major to but one wife. There ean scarcely be any question of morals involved in this procedure, as the Sultan has four fully commissioned wives and somc‘3oo by brevet, but the measure is probably taken because so much of the officer's time is token up in suppressing hair-pulljng riots at home. Italian immigration to this coun. try is peculiar in several respects Tn the first place, 3 very considers' Me proportion of our Italian immi grants go back to Italy to stay there after spending a few years in this country and saving a little money here. Several hundreds of them sailed from New York for Genoa last week in the steamship Furst Bismarck, never to return here, and over a thousand others have left us for good since the beginning of September. This kind of thing is going on all the time. In the second place, less than one-third of the Italians who emigrate to this country are women, and more than two-thirds ol them are men. The men come here to make a fortune, leaving their wives, sisters and sweethearts to await their return. In the third place, less than one-half of our Italian immigrants ever try to learn to speak or read the English languagei. and only a very small proportion of them desire to become American citizens. They live by themselves in certain quarters of the city, just •S the poorer Hebrews do, and know hardly anything about American hfa. The Italian people who come here, •f whom about 100,000 live in New York and its suburbs, are hardy r hard working, quick witted, frugal, .oquacious, and far less given to violence than they are often represented to be. If all of them would learn the speech of this country, fewer of. them would go back to Italy to stay there. If they would take up American ways, as the Irish, the Germans. and others take them up, they would get along better than they do, and find life in New York more attractive even than in Italy. The papers which are printed here in the Italian language ought to tell them these things. Americus Vespucius Symmes, of Louisville, Ky., says the Indianapolis Journal, has foot the organisation of a party for the rescue of Verhoeff, the Louisville boy who wandered off from Lieut. Peary’s party, in the Arctic regions, and who is believed by some to be still alive. In an interview in the Cour-ier-Journal Mr. Symmes says: I should like for six or eight young men who desire to immortalize themselves to volunteer to go to Greenland at the expense of the Government, but they would have to ra se money among themselves to pay for their outfits after reaching Greenland. After finding Mr. Verhoeff he will take command of the party, and next October will lead the expedition to follqw the wild animals to their homes in Symmesonia, where a new world will be found, a mild climate and a salubrious atmosphere. This Americus Vespucius Symmes is a son of John Cleves Symmes, of “Symmes’s Hole" celebrity. The elder Symmes was author of thetheory that the earth is a hollow sphere, habitable within, and open at the poles for the admission of light, and containing within it six or seven concentric hollow spheres also open at the poles, and each presenting a large amount of habitable surface. He spent a good deal of time and money exploiting his theory, writing and lecturing about it, and in 1822 petitioned Congress to fit out an expe dition to test its truth. A few years later he wrote a work entitled “Theory of Concentric Spheres,” which excited some attention and considerable ridicule. Although a crank on this subject, Symmes was a man of some note in other respects, having served as a captain in the regular army and achieved distinction in the war of 1812. About fifteen years ago the son revived his father’s the ory, and, as will be seen from the above extract, he still adheres to it. A leader thoroughly imbued with such a theory would be likely to get •s near the north pole as anybody.

Mrs. Langtry is scr onsly 111. L - The grip is raging in New York. The failure of the American Wood Pa per Company is reported. Three firemen wore tally injured in a fire at Albany, N. Y., Monday. A receiver has been appointed forth* Order of Sutons at Pittsburg, Pa. - ---■ Judge Wright, at Marshall, 111.. granted eight divorces in thirty-two minutes. Thomas C. Gaston, captain of police at Jackson, Tenn., shot and killed W. C. Strickland, Wednesday. The Sons and Daughters of America, an endowßieut order, has gone Into the hand* of a receiver at Boston. Pension Commissioner Baum denies that any cases of application for pensions ha\ e been bung up in his office. Champaign. 111., will make a determined effort to secure the holding of the Illinois State fair in that city in 1893. Sit is again rumored that it is the intontention of the Prince of Wales to visit the Chicago Columbia Exposition. Stambotil, the celebrated stallion, wa sold at auction in New York. Tuesday, for $41,000, to D. H. Herriman. Therie is a report that seven men were killed in a battle between cattle “rustlers” and officers in Wyoming. Patrick Gallagher, the missing cook, who confessed to poisoning the Homestead laborers, has been arrested. Sven Wiren, a Danish newspaper man, has arrived in Chicago, bound around the world, provided with unlimited cheek and no cash. Charles L. Cadman, clerk at the wholesale stamp window in the general postoffice at New York, has disappeared, leaving a shortage of between 15,000 and SIO,OOO. The inventory filed at Salem, Mass., of the estate of John G. Whittier, shows a valuation of 1138,729, of which (8,500 is in real estate. ; The Ohio Supreme Court has sustained the action of the Hamilton County Clreui 1 Court, placing the English party in control of the O. Jt M. railway. Four convicts working on the Iron Mountain road at Helena, Ark., have been poisoned by arsenic, and a panic has resulted among laborers at that point. Broker Sibley, of Chicago, whose disastrous failure occurred Monday, claims that the collapse was the result of a spe-cial-combination whose purpose was to “do’’ him. ’"he Louisiana Supreme Court has sustain > Ltiio “Jim Crow” law, making i(, . on railroads in that State to piovide separate coaches for white and colored passengers. The $75,030 paid by the Chilean govern mont, in settlement in full for all claim arising out of ihe Baltimore affair at Valparaiso, was paid into the sub-treasury at New York, Tuesday. John Froyhoff, of Urbana, 0., a German gardener, well-to-do, tried to murder his wife and two children, Monday, and believing he had killed his wife, committed suicldo. It is believed Mrs. FreyhoS wll die. A crude oil tank at the concern of P. P. Mast & Co., Springfield, 0., exploded Wednesday morning, throwing burning oil over a number of employes. William Kohler was practically cooked alive. Many others are thought to bo fatally burned. J It is said the Rothchllds will establish a great beer trust in this country, with headquarters in Now York, Many millions of capital are to bo used in the enter, prise. Sites have already been secured in Now Haven, Bridgeport and Hartford, Ct.« ChlcagOr-Columbus, £)., and San Francisco. Jacob Krieger, once a prominent financler of Louisville, died in that city, Monday, penniless and heart broken. Rising by bis own efforts to affluence, he lost his fortune in trying to save the Masonic Savingsßank, of which he was President, which failed August 8, 1891. He was a native’of Prussia and aged 67. Cornelius Vanderbuilt has bought all the lots adjoining his present magnificent residence in New York, which he is now demolishing, together with the stuctures upon the recently purchased ground, and will erect a palace of fabulous beauty upon tho site thus acquired. It is estimated that the cost of tho new building and grounds will exceed S2,<XX).OOO. During the past twelve months the total length of malu track railway laid in tho United States was 4,852 miles. Tho tolu] railway mileage of the United States is 174,663 miles. 'The "Stirtwin which the greatest mileage was laid during the pres' ent year are as follows: Washington’ <20.73 miles; Pennsylvania, 256.94; New York, 236.32; Michigan, 820.64; Texas 211.23: West Virginia, 203.84; Minnesota’ 200.27; Ohio, 197.15; Missouri. 197.13. A Chicago jury petitioned Judge Bratano to have cigars and whisky sent to tho jury room while considering an important case involving a demand for $25,000 damages for the death of a chid, and* receiving uo response, returned a void<c'« for the plaintiff of one cent damages. Judge Bretano instantly set aside the verdict, administered a terrific rebuke to, the jury and discharged them in disgrace fining the nine jurors who had led off in the matter to an amount equaling their fees. <