Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1893 — Huge Mass of Ice. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Huge Mass of Ice.

Gold brick and “green goods” men continue to rope in the victims who are too poor to take the papers. The Illinois Legislature has a bill under consideration to compel the trimming of all hedges along highways. The eolored teacharsof Atlanta, Ga., adopted eulogistic resolutions concerning the elevation of Hoke Smith to the Cabinet. As a ship canal the Panama ditch was a failure, but as a “drain” it was a huge success in carrying off the surplus wealth of the French people. j Mr. Gladstone claims from descent Henry HI., of England and Robert Bruce of Scotland. This fact should not count against him in the popular estimation. He is ‘ ‘a man for a, that. ” The Russian military authorities have rejected one-half of the new Lebel rifles purchased for the army, and it will take three years to supply the Czar’s battalions with perfect The Emperor of Germany likes to •ee the Empress wear an apron, and rt is supposed that this preference will cause that article of feminine Apoarcl to be much in vogue in the Fatherland. The collapse of the Kansas revol uKqm is also attributed to heart failure. In reality the failure of the Populist cause was directly attributable to rank treason on one side and cowardice on the other.

A Long Island sculptor will carve a statue of a mythological goddess trow batter for the World’s Fair. She will be a Goddess of Greece in fact, and if made of genuine butter will be very “fresh” for a time at least. The Ohio Governorship seems to be a sort of financial hoodoo. BiShop, Hoadly, and Campbell were very unfortunate in a business way while in that office, and now McKinley’s woes are making the chair of state a very uncomfortable resting place. The re]wr tors who told “why Cleveland was elected” have been outdone by the scribes who have furnished “bottom facts” in the Kansas q uarrel. Trust the Associated Press for “fairy” tales and don't worry yourself reading Munchausen or the. Arabian Nights.

Tnr American end of the Home Rule party are not altogether pleased with Gladstone’s Home Rule bill, but will try to be satisfied with its provisions. This being the case, Mr. Gladstone can now proceed to struggle “wid” the British lion in his attempt to loosen his grip on the Irish lamb. ~ Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior, has been joked about his name until he doubtless wishes that bis mother had been somebody else. “Hoke” is no joke, nor it is a pet name, but was the name of his ma tcnial ancestor before she lost her identity by marrying Smith pere, Mr. J. Sterling Morton, who is to be Secretary of Agriculture in the Cleveland cabinet, is the proprietor of a ‘Tnodel farm" in Nebraska, and is a scientific student of agriculture, horticulture and arboriculture. He is believed to be especially well qualified for the duties of his new position.

A New York millionaire committed suicide at Saratoga, recently, because the train was one hour late. “TVaiting for the train” is not a hilarious occupation, as thousands can testify, but it seems unreasonable in the New York man to carry his annoyance to such a desperate extreme in such an attractive town as Saratoga is reputed to be. Turtle is said to be danger of a rabbit plague in Kansas. This, coupled with the pestiferous politics which prevails in that region, together with the devastating cyclones, drouths and grasshoppers which are wont to claim all things for their own, will have a tendency to make discontented citizens of the older Slates ‘‘endure the ills they have rather than to fly to those they know *ot of. ” '■'j j A Pittsburg widower who wanted a wife “real bad” carried on a corwMjKmdeucc through a matrimonial bm •can to a successful issue, and on the '‘round up” found himself engaged te his own daughter. Blue ruin reigned in that household. The “old man” was terribly out up and went ont and climbed some hills, while the daughter cried all night

> for the wasted affection lavished on her unknown lover. Prof. Wiggins, the Canadian weather prophet, accuses Jupiter "and Mars of a conspiracy which has resulted in bringing to the earth the coldest weather that lias been known in the Northern hemisphere for many years. He saw them together on the night of the 25th of January and is fully convinced that they have set up a job on us. It is al ways a satisfaction to be able to “lay" our troubles on to somebody, and the Professor willl please accept our thanks for locating the offenders who have so grievously punished us.

Ward McAllister, boss of the swell Four Hundred ot New York, in contemplation of the proposed visit: of the Prince of Wales, has evolved a code for the instruction of those who feel like extending the hospitality of their homes to the Prince. It seems that to be-in “good form” certain rales of etiquette are necessary in entertaining a royal guest. It is not certainly known that the Prince will “board round.” but those of our readers who desire to do the thing properly should opporutnity offer will do well to write Mac at New York for full instructions. Vandals in the West have destroyed vast tracts of sugar maple trees by hacking them with the ax year after year to draw off the sap rather than to tap them in the proper manner. Such waste is characteristic of new countries. The lavish supplies with which nature has endowed a timbered country are never fully appreciated until they been dissipated by the improvidence of pioneers. Millions of dollars were thrown away by the early settlers of Indiana when they burned the almost inexhaustible supplies of walnut timber in great heaps to get it out of the way.

The financial ruin of Gov. McKinley has brought to him the sympathy of the people without regard to party lines. The devotion of Mrs. McKinley in bravely sacrificing her own private fortune to meet the. demands of the Governor's creditors has been the subject of much favorable comment. While the sacrifice oT the accummulations of a life time of honorable effort, to pay the debts of a defaulting friend, is sad to contemplate. yet it is more than probable that the circumstances will in a very few years have the effect of increasing the Governor’s wealth to a point far beyond what it would have attained in the regular course of

The term “Mug wump" is derived from an Indian dialect, and originally was used to designate an aborigine who deemed himself superior to his fellows. The word came into prominence during the campaign of 1884, and was applied to those Republicans who refused to support Mr. Blaine. A writer in the St. Louis-Globc-Demncrat asserts, how ever, that in reality Mr. Blaine was a Mugwump himself in 1882, and was responsible for the defeat of Folger for Governor of New York in that year by Cleveland by the phenomenal majority of 193,000. thus bringing Cleveland into prominence, and in effect bringing about his own defeat which followed two years later

Indianapolis New*. Some time ago the farmers of Sims and Greene townships, Greene county, sunk a well in hope of finding gas. An abundant flow of water resulted, the stream gushing to a height of one hundred feet. It fell

back over the derrick, freezing as it fell, making the derrick a huge icicle of wonderful beauty. Hundreds of people are visiting and photograph ing it. The ribbon of the. Legion of Honor was presented to Mme. Brochard, of the Lenon Hospital, for her faithful services during the cholera epidemic. Although she had braved the plague, she was too diffident to wear the insignia openly, and concealed the ribbon bene;nh a fold of her dress. Warren county. lowa, has a petrified shark. ' .

THE ICE-COVERED DERRICK.