Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1893 — A Handful of Chaff. [ARTICLE]

A Handful of Chaff.

Ram's Hyo. The easiest way for a man to pack a trunk is to get his wife to do it. There is one good thing to be said in favor of the hornet. He alwas has an aim and generally hits it.

Mr. Blount, President Cleveland’s commissioner who hauled down the American Flag at Honolulu, is a fit instrument for so unpatriotic a job. He was among those who were trying to down the same flag thirty years ago. He had. better success this time than he did before.

The two greatest needs of Jasper county have long been recognized as better drainage and better roads. Much, very much, has already been done towards supplying both these great needs and when the four great and several smaller drainage projects now under way in the county are completed, the drainage problem will be pretty nearly solved, and with good drainage will come, of necessity, greatly improved roads. And especially will this be case if the people will avail themselves of the grand opportunity to improve their streets and reads that will be afforded by the cutting of the proposed channel through the limestone rocks, in the Iroquois river at Rensselaer. A vast (fliantity of the very best road making material will thus be produced, which can be sold at a cheap but equitable price, and if proper care is taken can be put upon the streets and roads in the right con_ ditidn, without very great expense. It is to the best interests of all our people, in town and country to have .good roads and good streets; also to help along the great but expensive drainage projects now in contemplation. Let us all work together for the good of all and wonderful and be nifieent will be the results.

The buildings of the world’s fair have already c05t51G,708,708,825, or twice the sum expended for the Paris exposition, and more yet must be expended. This does not include the large aggregate sum expended on state and government buildings. The great cost of the buildings is not their most remarkable feature, however, if we can trust the opinions of scores of distinguished artists and architects, from all parts of the world. Nor is it their unequalled magnitude, without parallel since the world began; but rather their wonderful architectural and ariistic beauty and perfection.