Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1893 — DISRAELI ON BIRON. [ARTICLE]

DISRAELI ON BIRON.

Th® “bloody shirt” has been resurrected. It was found in a carpenter shop at Elkhart. It is not known that it will be used for political purposes. Sleeping car berths are now sold at $4 from Chicago to San Francisco. The stale jokes about the ■overpowering wealth of Pullman porters will evidently have to be revised. Th® question now agitating the public mind to the exclusion of more important matters is: “Will Bud Stone fall with a dull sickening thud as other stones do when dropped?” “Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the "merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain there l of than fine gold.” A party of frizzly bear hunters from New York ftity are already snowed in at the head of Clearwater river in Montana, and do not expect to return before spring. No fears are felt for their safety. Ex-Senator Farwell, of Illinois, continues to brood over the snub he thinks he received from Benjamin Harrison during the lattef’s Presidential term, and has given a lengthy interview to the press in which he airs his grievances and exhibits a very sore toe to the public gaze.

A scientist has recently discovered than the pain we feel when a mosquito bites us is caused by an acid fluid which is injected by the ferocious insect into the wound in order to thin the blood to a desirable consistency and make it more readily digestible. This is a great achievement on the part of the scientist. We all like to know what hurts us. A decision of great interest to rural committees has been recently handed down by the United States Supreme Court, the full bench concurring. The decision establishes the right of any man to prevent a dog fight, and holds that if a peace maker in the canine combat shall receive bites or injuries he may recover damages from the owner of the dog or dogs. The contest waged by St. Louis and Milwaukee at the World’s Fair as to which city produced the best beer resulted in a disagreement of the judges, and the final settlement of the vexed question was left to thc supervisory committee of the national commission. The result is not inappropriate, as everybody knows that the beer business is a “draw” game anyway. The will of the late Mayor Harrisor. has" been probated at Chicago. The estate is valued at 1950,000, and is left in equal shares to his four children —the amounts advanced in the testator’s lifetime to three heirs to be deducted from their portions—with the exception of SIO,OOO to be used by the executors in charity. He appoints his two sons ahd oldest daughter as his executors, and the will is set forth imhis own handwriting. ~~“

Our own J. W. Riley is said to be superstitious to a marked degree Recently he arrived at Baltimore at a late hour, and after registering at a hotel the clerk called a colored bell boy, who was cross-eyed, and ordered him to show the guest to room 13. “Not much,” said the Hoosier poet, “I don’t allow no cross-eyed coon to show me to room number 13."' As Mr. Riley insisted on it, another boy was called and the superstitious Hoosier was assigned to another room. Ordinarily to destroy the inherent value of anything renders it worthless. There has been one exception at least found to this rule, however. Four-dollar postage stamps are said to be coming into use for letters only requiring a two-cent engraving of Columbus discovering “us”, the object being to have them cancelled by a government official, which at once adds a certain fictitious value to the bits of paper in the eyes of the stamp collectors, who are numbered by thousands. The letters bearing the valuable medallion are registered so that the sender may recover them with certainty. A premature youth of Indianapolis recently hurriedly emptied a bucket containing gasoline belonging to his mother out of a back window. His maternal ancestor sharply reprimanded him for his carelessness,

but the youth insisted that the liquid was nothing but water. An exchange of contradictory remarks ensued, and the boy, to convince the mother, applied a lighted match to the wasted fuel. The con ver ion of that boy to his mother’s views on the subject was quite as sudden as the change of heart that came over Saul of Tarsus one famous day, for “suddenly there shined round about him a light from” —not heaven, but the earth beneath, and he was sadlv burned. The fire department came to the rescue and saved the building, and the M. D.’s will save the boy’s life.

Omaha policemen go to church. They even become interested in re ligious services. “One of the Finest” was relieved from duty for remaining too long at the “throne of grace.” Such a charge has never been brought against an Indianapolis Knight of themace. Of late the force of that city bave devoted thdir energies to suppressing the traffic in beer at illegal hours with great success. We are not informed fully, but perhaps this accounts for the unparalleled epidemic of suicide that has devastated our beautiful capital in the past few weeks. This is a subject for moral philosophers to investigate: What, if._any T relation does the suppression of the illegal sale of spirituous liquors bear to the mania that results in self-destruc-tion?

Lord Beaconsfield’s Clever SpcoCb—•‘We Have All Been Young.” The last time I heard Lord consfield was at Willis' rooms in the days of the old building. We had been called together to consider the advisability of erecting a statue to Lord Byron, and the platform occupied by several eminent ecesiastics, says the London Sunday Times. There were, to the best of my recollection, an archbishop and two or three bishops and pledty of deans, archdeacons and such small clerical deer. Lord Beaconsfield was received with enthusiasm. He made a capital speech. I could not help contrastieg his style his calm, measured sentences—with the dash and go of his great parliamentary rival. As earnestness is the essence of Mr. Gladstone’s oratory, so was polished epigram the “stock” of Disraelli’s carefully considered utterances. The great conservative was delightfully calm. He was always dignified, and even when flippant distinctly majestic. I remember that on the occasion to which I refer he made,the point which, convulsed tlie audience the moment it was understood. “I do not pretend to defend all the faults of the poet’s private character. It is, unfortunately, common I knowledge that he was a libertine. I But then, my lords and gentlemen,” said Dizzy, turning to the archbishop, bishops and the remainder of the clerics, “we have all been young!” The speaker spoke perfectly gravci ly. For a moment there was silence, and then, when the audience took the point, came a shout of applause and a roar of laughter. - The idea of suggesting the possibility that so eminently a respectable a company might have found themselves in the same boat with the peccadilloes of Lord Byron was too lovely for words.