Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1893 — Trolling With Live Fish Gait. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Trolling With Live Fish Gait.

4am<ms -rope-jvalker, . who amnsed our forefathers by walk? ing a rope at Niagara, celebrated his sixty-ninth birthday at Londo'n, on the 28th ult., by walking’ a rope 200 feet above the ground. Not with standing his age he is still a robust and active man. : Word comes that we are to have a Russian fleet- in Now York harbor this spring. -The Czarevitchis coming along to see the Fair. ViceAdmiral KasnakSff will be in command, and he will doubtless be accorded a hearty reception, with cordial inquiries as io the cause of his “Kof.” - It has been announced that. Bus-. fgia Bill has bnftn chT>sOjvas~ a-tnodhl fora statue of the■' 'typical American” that Utah will have cast in silver for the World's Fair. This ideal will suit the small boy. but it is to hoped that Gel. -Cody will not be considei'ed an embodiment of the highest American manhood. S. W. Allerton, the millionaire pork packer, has withdrawn frnnr the swell Chicago club because there is too much- drinking indulged in by the members. Mr. Allerton is not a temperance reformer, but objected to the constant temptations to indulge in the intoxicating beverages that were placed--before .him at the club rooms. - A most remarkable gathering was that in Carnegie Hall, New York, recently, when a Roman ,Catholic . priest, a Jewish rabbi, ministers of nearly all the Protestant denomination s,and an infidel lawyer, sat in harmony on the same stage and made eulogistic speeches' in honor of Phillips Brooks, a deceased Episcopal Bishop. Verily, “the lion and the lamb shall lie down together.” Etgitt hundred million Collars are invested in electrical enterprises in this country. One-half of this enormous capital is bound up in electric light and power plants, and onefourth in factories for their produccion. The balance is employed in miscellaneous enterprises that are dependent on the others. Every electric railroad in the United States is said to be paying a handsome return on the capital employed, and new projects of almost unlimited possibilities are daily being organized. New York City is agitated over the continued burials in vaults belonging to the old Knickerbocker families in Trinity churchyard, on Broadway at the head of Wall street. The burial place has been in use since colonial times. Grave digging was prohibited fifty years ago, but a number of the old-time families owning vaults in the ii&flosure have: continued their use, until they are a veritable charnel house, shocking to the sensibilities of the passersby, as wcil as seriously detrimental to the public health. President Harrison brought the great Hoosier commonwealth into some prominence before the country at large, and Indiana has not been a loser thereby in the public estimation. Now the State has been honored in a permanent way by the naming of the battle-ship “Indiana", which was launched on the 27th ult. This great vessel will not be fitted for service for a year, but When she sails forth on the waves, bearing the name of the great State she honors, the backwoods Hoosier will be justified in feeling that she is the peer of any land beneath the starry banner or beneath the glittering vault above.

Tnr exclamation point was brought into court in London, recently, one Mrs. Austin claiming t ha *e been seriously injured in character by the use of three of them consecutively by a British nobleman in a private letter to a friend. In the epistle the noble lord, in speaking ci Mrs. Austin, wrote that .‘.‘she wanted to bring her daughter to France'.!The jury could not be made to sec that damage had been inflicted and found for the defendant. Intelligent people, however, can easily understand how. under certain circumstances, this simple little orthographic character can be made very offensive. There art a few gentlemen at the White House who are fixtures which each succeeding .administration inherits. They arc Colonel O. L. Pruden, assistant secretary, who entered the service during the early days of the war; Colonel W. H. Crook, who }ias witnessed eight different inaugurations; B. F. Montgomery, telegrapher of the Weather Bureau; Thomas F. Wendel, usher

since November 1864; C. D. O. Loeffler, appointed by Grant in 1872, and William Du Bois, usher appointed by Hayes in 1880. Neither one will likely be disturbed as they were found acceptable during the former administration of Mr. Cleveland. Time, like an-dbetriccar, waits for no man, but plunges forward to the nextcrossing, taking on new x passengers and leaving old ones behind in mud or wind or storm, heedless of the frantic -cries—of—those—who- fail -te catch on with its swift flight, Now it is a mighty man of war that falls by the wayside, and again it is a motley throng who are passed by. Onward it- rolls-, antF- on history's scroll the record of its deeds are told. Men puss away, but day by day time keeps' the track and ne'er turns back, but while we fall beneath the pall.. we need not quail but set our sail Tpr'■higher" Spheres beyond life’s fears, where time no -more heads on the shore the fragile bark we can"nbtpt’eer. '

High judicial authority has decided that a person who can" 1 play a good game of -poker is not insane, and can not be held in an insane asylum where he has been imprisoned after haying demonstrated his ability in this direction. Young Mr. Cunningham, of New York, had so many peculiarities, —among which was his hatred for collar buttons, refusing to wear (’ollarslieeause4he.-buttons-got-lost—that his step-father secured his commitment to an insane asylum. But friends rallied to his rescue, and it was .proven that he was an expert at the game of poker. Mr. Cunningham was declared sane notwithstanding his intense, hatred of the elusive collar button. Vindication is what-unlueky mon have always longed for and seldom attain. Down in Georgia they appreciate this very human—feeling to a more perfect degree than has perhaps been attained in any other region, in the United States at least. A postmaster in the land of Hoke Smith made fraudulent use of the mails and was sent to the penitentiary for so doing. On his return from serving out his sentence his admiring friends met him with brass bands and escorted him in triumphal procession through tne town. They afterwards elected him Justice of the Peace as a further expression of thci r disapproval of Uncle Sam for the incarceration of their beloved fellowtownsman. Five hundred millions of the human race wear a complete outfit bf clothing. Seven hundred millions cover part of their bodies, while two hundred and fifty millions adhere to the primitive fashions said to have been inaugurated by Adam and Eve when they started in business, and seem from all accounts to be enjoying life quite as well as the fortunate or unfortunate millions who wear clothes and work hard to pay for them. Happiness is largely a matter of education and comparison; and it is not altogether an established fact that the highly civilized nations of "the world are better off in this respect than their naked fellow’ mon. “Where ignorance is bliss ’tis iojly to be wise.”

Scientific American. The improved fishing device shown in the accompanying illustratioii is designed to keep the bait used alive for an indefinite period. The hooks, inslead of boiny attached to the line in the stial way, are white, and arc secured by a swivel and white wire leaders to an annealed, flanged, flintglass tube, through which the water circulates, and in which is held alive minnow or other living bait, the glass magnifying the size of. the fish in the tube, and its effect being such that, at a distance of a foot, only the bait fish in the tube is seen by the

fish in the water ntits'.de. the hooks escaping observation. An opening in the front of .the tube and one in the cap closing its rear provide for a free circulation of water through jit, so that one small bait fish may last for a day, the fish being inserted in the tube by unscrewing the rear tap. It is said that this device has been successfully employed in catching muskalonge, pickerel, pike and bass, being equally adapted for taking either salt or frosh water game fish, whose natural bait consists of small fish. The tubes are preferably made of different fmm 3* to 54 inches long, and proportionately trimmed with hooks, according to the kind of. fish it is proposed to catch. k ——===«»»■ Dealer — madam, is a horse I can recommend, sound, kind— Old Lady—Oh, I don’t want that kind of a horse. He holds his head Mhigh. . Dealer- Eh? t Old Lady—l like a horse that holds his nose ckxie to the ground so that lie can see where he's gain’.