Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1893 — The Queen’s Wine Cellars. [ARTICLE]

The Queen’s Wine Cellars.

Lawrence T. Neal, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, is forty-nine years old and a bachelor. The Democratic party, in the past, has usually had good luck with “old bachelor” candidates. James Buebannan, Samuel J. Tilden W i iM? » and Grover Cleveland have been conspicuous examples of this. Mr. at the age of eighty, and resides at •* Ten million paid admissions to the World's Fair during the first four months is the record that proves that Chicago, as usual, is making a success of an undertaking that jealous East predicted was beyond her capacity to manage or abH-ity to successfully carry forward. Prospects indicate that the Fair will even be a financial success —something that the promoters scarcely hoped so is unusual in such undertakings. Very few of the world’s great expositions have returned anything to the original stockholders. A* = There are two things about the United States Postal laws that every one should know. The sender has a right to put his address on the envelope or wrapper of anything mailable, whether printed matter or merchandise. The Dead Letter office would become unnecessary if all would avail themselves of this privilege. The registry fee is now only 8 cents in addition to the postage, and for that small sum anything mailable can be registered and its safety insured. All packages of value should be registered, The responsibility for a package is thus located and a receipt from the recipient is thus secured —very important matters in some cases. The great diamond now on exhibition at the World’s Fair by Tiffany & Co., of New York, is valued at ♦IOO,OOO. This diamond is celebrated and has a well authenticated history. It was found in the Kimberly diamond district in South Africa, in 1879, and came immediately into the hands of its present owners. It is the largest diamond in America, and thc-finest yellow diamond in the world. It is one-fifth larger than the famous Kohinoor stone, which belongs to the British crown. Mrs. Yerkes, wife of the Chicago street car millionaire, is the lady who has the pile that “jerks” this glittering bauble, which she will take possession of at the close of the Fair. • As a purveyor of nows, it has -3in become our painful duty to Vriuounce the taking off of Mr. wchnitzer, alias Emin Pasha, in the wilds of Africa. He is all “cut up” this time and has been eaten ere this by naked cannibals. -We are aware that this announcement will appear a trifle stale and monotonous, but we can assure our readers that the information has come to us through the regular channels, and is quite as reliable, apparently, as any other piece of news from foreign shores. Emin's entire party were massacred by a band of hostile natives, and Emin's head was cut off by one stroke of a scimitar in the hands of a gigautic savage in a dramatic manner 7 that will delight the heart of Rider Haggard, who will doubtless in due time use the incident as a basis for a new work of horrible African fiction. The New York collector of customs held that the tomato is a vegetable and accordingly imposed the 10 per cent, advalorem tax, as prescribed by law. The merchant who was importing what he contended is fruit, which is admitted free of duty, appealed to the circuit court, but collector, and on a further appeal by the merchant to the United States Supreme Court the decision was affirmed. This is important. We all know now what we are eating when we indulge in the agricultural production in question. This is probably the first time that this vegetable has been brought into court since the days of Pickwick. As all will recollect, it was the message, “Chops and tomato sauce” that precipitated the celebrated case of Bardell vs. Pickwick and brought down so much tribulation on that famous and kindhearted old gentleman. Mr. Garner, the “monkeyologist” and simian expert, having long believed tjjat shs amusiqg animals in which he has taken so great an incan and d 9 talk, has prepared a cage for himself in which he feels •afo and is now in the wilds of Africa pursuing the study of the lingo of

the ■various varieties of monkeys. Word has been received from him in a letter in which he reports satisfactory progress and states that be can conduct a limited but intelligible conversation with his forest friends. Mr. Garner has written to a Boston philanthropist soliciting contributions of rattles, balls, tin trumpets, dolls and other small toys. He will endeavor to educate the monkeys, as an experiment, on their “native heath,” so to speak, and if Successful we may look for the formation of the Amalgamated Missionary Union for the propagation of Delsarte ideas among thebaiiy denizens of the tropics- e lShrtists monkeys would be a great success. They could give the human race pointers on “falling down* stairs"—the latest fad that has emanated from the fertile brains of “cnlchah” and alleged refinement. The great success of the Encampment managers at Indianapolis in preparingJor and handlings the immense outpouring of people, and veterans as well, that filled the Hoosier capital as never before, places that city in line for successful competition for the national conventions of the great parties in 1896. Frequent efforts have been made in this direction in the past, but the patriotic efforts of the public men of Indianapolis were hardly given serious consideration by the national committees, for the simple reason that it was supposed that a national gathering of any great organization couldnot be properly cared for by a city of the size of Indianapolis. Now that, it has demonstrated its capacity, with the experience gained by the Encampment, and the added advantage of three years growth before the meeting of the conventions to nominate canditates for the campaign—of ’96, the efforts of public spirited citizens are certain to receive a respectful consideration that will more than likely be crowned with success. One or both of the great national conventions will be held in Indianapolis in ’96. Paste this in your hat. The distant cousins and far away aunts and remote uncles and unheard of relatives of all degrees of consanguinity, by the direct line of hereditary descent or collateral connection brought about by ante-di-luvian nuptials ceremonies, have at last, by the cumulative force of oftrepeated calamities brought a Chicago man to grief, and in the frenzy of despair he has rushed into print in the personal columns of the city papers with au emphatic notice to the world at large that all persons claiming relationship with him in the future, and desiring entertainment during their stay in the city, must be identified. Early in August Mr. McCaslin the person in question, having tried to keep a record of persons entertained by him, because of their claimed relationship, became impressed with the belief that he had been sadly imposed upon. The family had given up their beds to guests, bunking around as best they could. The situation was desperate. Investigation of the record led to the discovery that twenty-five more visitors had been entertained than could bv the most liberal construetion claim relationship. Mr. McCaslin naturally felt that he had done his duty by his relations and accordingly issued the notice that in the future visitors claiming relationship must be identified, and that credentials will be required.

London World. The Queen possesses an immense quantity of wine, there being very large cellars and most of them full, at St. lames’ Palace, Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace. No great stock of wine is kept either at Os“ borne or Balmoral, the supplies for those palaces being renewed as often as may be necessary. The Queen’s collection of old port and sherry. East India Madeira and Cabinet Rhine wines is probably the largest and finest in the country, and her majesty lias a splendid cellar of Imperial Tokay,* which was Prince Albert’s favorite desert wine. George 1V purchased vast quantities of port, Madeira and sherry, which he was privileged to import, free of duty, and in those days members of the household were In the habit of getting a great deal of wine in the same way, under the pretext that it was being ordered by them for the King.