Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1893 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

The town board and the town cow locked horns Monday night in deadly conflict, and the unhappy cow was “sent to grass,” (in some other pasture) in the first round. The enemies : “bull” mattersthougkwholly in thejr own way, and even to “cow” the spirits of thoss who wanted to -‘steer” a middle course in the matter. Alas, how, next summer, will our esteemed neighbor ofthe golden-haired Jerseys, and many equally unfortunate citizens in their daily task of body-guards to their grazing bovines, sigh, like Hamlet, that “Conscience (and the Town Board) doth make cowherds of ns aJi.’ The auditor’s sale of lands for delinquent taxes took place Monday afternoon at the court house. Dept. Treasurer Burnham acted as chief auctioneer, and in an hour’s time the entire sale was completed. There were but 109 delinquencies, or numbers, advertised in the first place, and all but 35 of these had been paid by the owners before the day of sale; and a clean sweep was very soon made of the remaining 35 . Competition among investors was very spirited. W.B. Austin bought 14 numbers; Thompson & Bro. 6, C. E. Mills 4, J. F. Antrim, C. C. Sigler and Nelson Morris 2 each, A. W. Hopkins 1, Thos. Thompson 1, Alfred Thompson 1, Wm. Dahncke I and C. W. Gillmore 1. Most of these small buyers bought only tracts which they had some interest in.

The Republican has received bul letins of the DePauw University Extension Courses, and Summer School for 1893. University Extension has become wide spread, and centers are being established in many Indiana cities. The Summer School at DePauw is a new departure, which, it is believed, will supply a long felt want, as there are many young people free during the 'summer who can now have the privileges of the university. The colleges of America owe it to the public to open their doors at all times when the young people can attend, and this movement on the part of DePauw University will commend it to tl.e additional favor of the public. The bulletins which can be had on application to President John at Greencastle, give a fall description of the courses offered; and this University will do its full partin bringing University Exension lectures within the reach of »U _ : _ _

The new Columbian postage stamps are causing a good deal of unnecessary worriment to a good many people. The fact that the picture of Columbus on" the one cent "stamps, showing the great discoverer getting his first sight of land, shows him with a smooth shaven face; while that on the two cent stamp,’representing “The Landing of Columbus’” shows that the invigorating influences of the western breeze has produced, over night, a luxuriant growth of, whiskers upon the Columbian countcance, is the greatest source of trouble. When it is remembered, however, that one of the two best authenticated pictures of Columbus represents him smooth shaven, and the other represents him with a full beard; and when it is further remembered that the pictures on the different Columbian stamps are copied from famous pictures by different artists, it is not strange that he should be shaven in one and bearded in the other. Another source of trouble to a great many people is an alleged typographical error in the one cent stamp. According to a paragraph that has gone the rounds of about every exchange that comes to our table, the name of Columbus on that stamp is spelled with an r where it should be a b; thus Now this alleged error has nO foundation in fact. The letters are very small, but wide for their size, or, as printers would say, extended; also in spiall capitals, thus; coLUMBCs. There is a little hern on the lower loop of the b, and the line epnnecting the loop with the vertical line of the letter is fine, but it is there all Uiwaame, and if any of our readers can not see it with the naked eye they can very plainly with a magnifying glass—as we did the other day in Billy Huff’s watch and clock infirmary.

The removal of the town schools into the new school"building, giving room for another teacher, th# department taught by J. N. Leatherman has been divided and Miss Eva Jackson has been installed as teacher of the new room. The first primary room, taught by Miss McDonald* has been moved into the new bailding, from the town hall, but with her department the half day system is still retained. One half of her scholars attendJn the forenoon and the other half in the afternoon.

The new school building is at last completed, all the departments of the public school being located therein excep t the two divisions of the high school, which still remain in the old building. The new house is a solid but handsome two story brick building, with a high basement, and roofed with slate. It has eight very fine, large well lighted schoolrooms, with plenty of halls and cloak rooms, elo3et3 etc. The heating and ventillating and s anitary closet arrangements are of the latest and most perfect kind, and give promise of working to perfection. They are all located in ihe basement. The cost of the building complete, will be between $16,000 and $17,000, and it is a structure of which every citizen may well be proud. It is the intention of the school board and Prof . Bohannon to make a public exhibition of the building at and after 4 o’clock, on Friday afternoon of next week, by which time everything will have been gotten into good order,

and the working of the heating and ventiliating systems be well in hand. All onr citizens and the strangers then sojourning among us will be made welcome, and be shown about the building, if they will call at that time.

The youthful dndelet who “runs” the local items of the Remington Pi-etis at so much a week, seems to have been a good deal disturbed by the fact that- we used the paper which he happens to be working for, as an apt illustration of the unfitness of merely local papers as mediums for public advertising, and the little fellow gives us the benefit of several paragraphs, of which the following is a fair sample: The hustling (?) local editor of our esteemed contemporary, the Rensselaer Republican, devotes nearly a half column to announcing that two of Rensselaer’s bright and progressive young men have secured a job on the world’s fair grounds for next summer of wheeling invalids around in reclining chairs to see the sights.

Ah! what a cruel dudelet! And who could have thought that he could strike so hard! He is almost as ferocious as another dudelet we read of once, who, on coming home found another fellow hugging his, the dudelet’s wife. -The dudelet was very angry, and finding the amorous visitor’s umbrella in the hall, he took it across bis knee and broke it all in pieces; then showing the fragments to the objectionable hugger he said, “There, I hope it will rain real hard, so there!”

We might point out to our Remington dudelet that the item in the Republican which he refers to as being nearly a half a column in length is really only 21 lines, and in fact less than the fifth of a column; and to suggest that so long as he is making up a lie, he might have made one a little less paltry, boyish and contemptible than that above quoted. But you cant expect much from a dudelet, not even in the way of lying. We may as well, while we are wasting time and space on the dudelet, call his attention to the fact tha t the above quoted paragraph made exactly the same number of lines and part of a line in the Press as it does above in The Republican, and thus illustrating much truth their is in the assertion, made by the dudelet in another paragraph, that the Press used smaller type, and therefore got in more reading matter in a given space than does this paper The type ifi exactly of the same size, in both papers, and the dudelet knew it was when he made the assertion to the contrary . Sboo-fly! dudelet, you are “too small potatoes” to bother with. English Spavin Liniment removes an Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and Blemishes from horses. Blood Spavins, Curbs, Splints, Sweeney,' Ring Bone, Stifles. Sprains,!all Swollen Throats, Congs, etc. Save SSO by use of one bottle. Warranted the most wonderful A iflmiah Cure elver known. Sold by B. F. Long & Co;, Druggist, Rensselaer id.