Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1893 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

The hard tame social which was to have been given last evening at Robt. Randle’s, has been postponed until Monday evening, and will be held at E. P. Honan's. ' Call at Mrs. Lecklider’S and see her fine pattern hats, during opening days. May 3,4, 5 and 6th. No old stock or old style carpets at Williams’. The movement to establish a cannery at this place, mentioned several weeks ago, is still hanging fire, but is liable to go off unexpectedly, at most any minute, and then again it may fall Through entirely, for this season. The latter catastrophe is the last thing that ought to be allowed to happen, however, for a large and well managed canning establishment is exactly what this region needs.

Warner and Shead, the new grocery firm. Give them a trial. Rugs discounted on opening days at Mrs. Leeklider’s. Arcouple of tramps whom Night WatchMcColly bad run out Of town Tuesday night, afterwards tried to hold up and rob the young Indian who works for Superintendent Hardy, at the poor farm, but he outran them. They dropped a good hatchet, which they had probably “swiped” some place about town, when Mr. M eColly got after them pretty close, and with which they probably intendto break into some building. Mr. McColly pickedup the hatchet, and still has it. R. G,. Ingersoll: IJere is a shoe shop. One man in the shop is always busy through the day, always industrious. In the evening he goes courting some nice girl. There are five other men in the shop that don’t do any such thing. They spend half of their wages evenings in dissipation. Tho first man by and by gets a boot and shoe store of his own. Then he marries the girl. Soon he is able to take his wife out riding of an evening. The five laborers, his former companions, who see him indulging in this luxury, retire to the neighboring saloon and pass resolutions that there is an eternal struggle between labor and capital. The reason Porter & Wishard sell so fnany carpets is because people like to buy where the}’ can get the best bargains. Estey organs and pianos, and Estey & Camp organs aDd pianos, on exhibition at C. B. Steward’s. The graduating class of the Rensselaer high school is only eight in number, this year, four girls and four boys, or, as the dignity of their grave seniorhood more properly requires, four young ladies and four young gentlemen. Their names are Effie Cow den, Flora Harris, Maude Irwin, Daisy Warner, Bennie Coen, Frank Hoover, Chase Kelley and Fred Tyler,They arc studious and promising young people, and will be well deserving of any honors commencement day may have in store for them. The special honors of the class have not yet been awarded, but Miss Cowden and Mr. Kelley are said to be running a pretty close race for the first place, and Mr. Coen is not far behind them. Call and see Williams’ $6 pillar tables, _l W -

Ten different makes of Sewing machines, At Steward’s. Bargains in HATS, Wednesdays and Saturdays, at Mrs. Lecklider’s. Monday night was a notable occasion itt the history of the local Women’s Relief Corps and the G. A. R. post. It was regular meeting night of the Corps and the members adroitly turned the meeting into a surprise party in honor of Mrs. Julia Healey, one of their most honored members, who is about to leave Rensselaer, to make her home in Missouri. The

ladies had just got their surprise in good running order, and were congratulating themselves upon its success, when they themselves were made the objects of a much more thorough surprise. The mumbers of the post, loaded with additional refreshments, and many of them in queer disguises, suddenly invaded the room and* captured the feminine garrison wtthont striking a blow. A general good time followed. Among the if old boys” who were most effectually disguised were W. W. Reeve and Charley Platt, each of wbiom was dressed in female garb.

Although the world’s fair was formally opened to the public last Monday, intended visitors will find it to their advantage to wait a tew weeks, if possible, before they begin their visit, Owing to the bad weather and other causes, many of the exhibits are in a very unprepared condition, andmany of the walks about the grounds, also. There is of course, a vast deal 4o”see~rtiierr riowr-aad .persons who have to go now or not at all had better go now, but a visit two or three weeks later will be vastly more pleasant and satisfactory. .• What is electricity? is a question that has never been comprehensively answered and the quality of the; material or force that now lights the streets and abiding places of the denizens of Rensselaer and of the civilized world, is unknown. A writer

says electricity is simply the motion of the molecules of the different substances which are the subjects of electrical action, just as beat, light and sound are, and the only difference between these forces is the rate of the motion. The motion of sound, as we all know, is comparatively slow; that of heat and light are very rapid. That of electricity would be somewhere between the slow motion of sound, and the rapid motion of the heat. The wonderful adaptability which electricity shows for every kind of work is due entirely to the position which its rate of motion occupies in the scale of energies. It would also appear that the reason this agent lay dormant for so many ages, and now is only partially developed, is because we have no sense which comprehends electrical vibrations.