Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1893 — DE LESSEPS’ ROMANCE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DE LESSEPS’ ROMANCE.

There has been ifcuceu m tho Matichester Mass., Public Library a copy or Uia Bible puolislieU in 1599. It is the gift of Miss Ella l.oe, daughter of the late Charles Lee, to the Manchester Historical Society.' This rare and valuable publicatiou is kamvn as the Bishop's Hible, aud was lirst printsd iu 1568. The machine tyowriter was 'not* patented by the man who originally devised it. “ The girl typewriter, however, is generally patented by her “best beau," and all “infringements” are dangerous. The Chinese brain has been weighed and not found wanting. Scientists assert that the average weight of the Chinese thinking apparatus is eonsidorcbly greater than that of other races. The new administration has 180,000 oftic.es to confer An 1,800.000 applicants. A reliable authority estimates that there is an average of ten. applicants for each office at the disposal of the President and his subordinates.

St. Louis having had a beer war this winter, and the. quality of the beverage having deteriorated, the Missouri-Legislature has created the office of “State fleer Inspector” whose duty will be to see that better beer and less froth are furnished the thirsty public. Missouri legislators- are given to enacting some queer laws-—notably the statute for selling negroes into slavery for vagrancy. One of their latest enactments makes it a penitentiary offense, for a husband to desert his wife until they have lived together for at least ten years. < The rivers of the country have been “full” of late and have shown a total lack of “self control,” but Keeley’s bi-chloride of gold cure will hardly restore the shattered hopes of many homes that have resulted from their protracted indulgence in an excess of liquid refreshments.

The newly elected department commander of the Grand Army in Wisconsin is Captain Shover, why enlisted as a drummer boy in an Indiana regiment before he was sixteen years old. lie served throughout the war with the Army of the Potomac, and participated in every engagement from Fair Oaks to Appomattox. The Czar is a man of ready resources. When he. needs more money he does not have to go through the preliminaries of having a new tariff schedule arranged but simply lays a duty on any article that seems likely to afford the desired revenue in the shortest time. Recently “he has added a duty of 40 cents a pound, on tea to the burdens of his subjects. Enterprising soap makers will now brand their product with your monogram or epitaph even if desired, ii c nspicuous letters, and are content if allowed to place their advertisement on the opposite side of the cake in less conspicuous letters. Many hotels and city clubs are said to be availing themselves of this new innovation in the soap trady.

An Italian medium operating in Paris, claims to be able to change her weight at will, and the phenomena is vouched for by eminent scientiflßc experts, who seem to think it something wonderful. That is nothing. Numberless grocerymen and even butchers do that in this country every day, and people accept it as a matter in no wise supernatural. Ora “state” religion, has* not been very much affected by the change of administration. Ex-President , Harrison is a Presbyterian. President Cleveland, if not an active member of that church, generally attends services at a Presbyterian house of worship. Vice-President Stevenson fcs a Presbyterian, and every member of the Cabinet is a communicant •f the church founded bv John Knox.

county, Mo., was convicted of vagrancy and according to the statutes made and provided, was placed on the auctioneer's block and sold into BIXT months"bondage fbr"thc"sum bF 120. Vagrancy is an evil that needs a remedy, but it is doubtful if.a revival of the old-time custom of slavery will have any salutary effect. A vagrant has no pride that wilf cause him to change his ways to avoid the disgrace of being sold iuto slavery, and the results of such proceedings are likely to make him a worse man rather than a better citizen. Texas continues to furnish her

full share of news items to the Associated Press. The monotony that has characterized crime in the Lono Star State has at last been broken, and Instead of a negro lynching, roasting, or an atrocious.assault and murder of innoeeht babes, we are now regaled with a comical account bf'The arrest for vagrancy of the polite force of a little Texas town, the .corps'- consisting of two men. The charge was preferred by the wives of the policemen,- who proved that they had received but sl2'pay in five months and could not support their families on that. People cling to an exploded story with strange pertinacity. Every small boy thinks he can get a fortune from the government if he succeeds in collecting a million canceled stamps. He never knew any one to receive either a large or small reward for such a collection, but that does not dampen his enthusiasm in, the least.— Older people adhere to the same delusion and set all their friends at work gathering up stamps. A lady of Allegheny, Pa., is on the home stretch and fondly believes she will receive SIO,OOO for her collection at an early date. Letters on the subject are constantly received at the Postoffice Department and help to make the officials earn their salaries.

How the Count Won His Pretty Young Wife. Mine, de Lesseps is a mere child compared with her venerable husband, who has just been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for his connection with the Panama Canal swindle. Count de Lesseps became a widower at 68, with a numerous family. A few years later he was in the habit of visiting a family in 1 Paris which comprised five sisters, j One day lie remarked that he had undergone great, dangers and difficulties among the Arabs, because they could not coneieve how a man could live without a. wife. The prettiest of the sisters innocently

asked: “Why, then, do you noi marry again?” “Because lam too old. Besides, if I were to fall in love with a young girl it would be absurd to think that she would fall in love with me.’ “WEo'knows?” observed the. ques tioner. Lesseps told his young listeners about the rose of Jericho, which, after being dried and placed in water, again bursts into bloom. Soon afterward he obtained one of these rioses and presented it to the young girl. In a few days she appeared with the reblossomed rose in her hand, which she gave to the count, saying: “See what a miracle the water has affected upon the rose; it is the blossoming of love in old age.” Their eyes met, and he, believing that she had a meaning in what she did. said: “If you really dare venture to share the remaining years of an old mau, here is my hand.”’ This is the way she caught him. But for this marriage it is very uncertain whether he would have undertaken his laborious task at Panama. She was always at his side, and a staunch support throughout his arduous cohfliets with politicians money tenders, engineers and labor- . ers.

MME. DE LESSEPS.