Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1894 — Value of New York Bank Shares. [ARTICLE]

Value of New York Bank Shares.

‘‘A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. He soweth discord. Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.” • The foreign exhibits in bond at Jackson Park during the World’s Fair arc being slowly released and removed. Only cne-thinNof this class of exhibits as yet has been taken away, and It is estimated that all can not, at the present rate of release, be removed before May 1. Archibald Arrington Henderson Williams represents a North Carolina district in the Fifty-third Congress. Mr. Williams so far has not come to the front with any measures of national importance, but a man with a name like that does not need to exert himself to achieve distinction. The manufacture of smokeless powder has created a demand for camphor that has don bled the price of the drug. Women adicted to fainting will find their pet calamity more expensive in the future, and now have an additional incentive to test the reviving virtues of a cold water douche.

A widowers’ Association has been organized at Dresden on the general plan of a mutual insurance company, the object being to pay funeral expenses of deceased wives and to provide means for caring for their children when it becomes necessary. The society also extends to a bereaved husband sympathy and entertainment.

Editor Stead, now in Chicago “reforming” things, dressed himself in rags and applied, as a man-out-of work, for a job. He was given a ihovel and worked three hours on the street for his supper and bed. He has written an account of his experience with many valuable suggestions to the chairman of the Chicago relief committee. Queen Victoria is under five feet in height and almost as broad as she is long. In spite of the disadvantages of her awkward figure it is said that she is extremely agile and graceful in all her movements, pnd the courtesys that this great-grand-mother is in the habit of making on great occaslons”are-models that would be creditable in a maiden of sixteen. 1 Armour, of Chicago, makes and sells pepsin for the millions of dyspeptics in this cruel world, but has dyspepsia himself in such an aggravated form that he can eat no solid food. The great capitalist and philanthropist would doubtless be glad to exchange some of his millions for an appetitite like that which gives the average laboring man so much trouble to satisfy.

The complications resulting from the Chinese exclusion act, which have never been fully fettled, have had the effect of inciting our naval authorities to an activity never before considered necessary or practical in Chinese waters. The AriierIcan squadron in that part of the world is to be strengthened, and tho Baltimore, one of our best ships, is to be the flag ship of the fleet.

A French professor of gymnastics has perfected a device for teaching novices to swim without going into the water, thus making it possible to fulfill the conditions imposed by the old lady upon her daughter, “once upon a time.” The pupn is perched face downwards upon a sort of “shaving horse,” with supports for the limbs that make it possible to acquire a correct stroke. The machine will be adopted by the French •rmy. David, the sweet singer of Israel, got in a great hurry one day, and remarked that, to the best of his knowledge and belief, all men were prevaricators from away back. The immediate occasion of David’s wrath has not been handed down from the “dim and distant past," but the probability is that the Slayer of Goliath had just returned from a tour of the Jew clothing stores of Jerusalem during a January cut rate sale. ’Tis then the liar’s at his best and weary buyers pine for rest

Toe battleship “Illinois” will be moved from its location off Jackson Park to the lake front between Van Buren and Washington streets, Chicago, having been transferred by the United States government to the Illinois Naval Reserve. Flags, ensigns, and other paraphernalia, Hotchkiss guns and other arms, also

were a part of the gift and the organization expects to enjoy excepttional facilities for naval training when the ship is transferred to its new foundations. A suit for SIO,OOO has been brought by Mr. Smith, of Kirklin, against Liveryman Wells, of the same village. Smith alleges that Wells hired a wild and vicious horse to him, and that the animal ran away, throwing him from the buggy and breaking his leg. The result of the suit will be awaited with interest by people generally. There is no question but what liverymen should be held responsible to a certain degree for thq character of the animals furnished by them for public-use.

There is a skunk farm near Hackettstown, N. J., where a herd of two hundred of the odoriferous animals flourish and taint the atmosphere for revenue only. Skunk pelts have of late years become valuable and the bodies also are boiled down for the grease which affords an additional revenue of about fifty cents for each animal. The two acre plot where the “critters” are now confined is surrounded by a wire netting sunk to a depth of three feet and a board fence fojir feet high surrounded by an oblique board projecting inward to prevent their escape. Black skunk pelts bring the highest prices.

The hanging of the American citizen of African descent at Bardstown, Ky., January 5, was a festive occasion, but incipient symptoms of a row of large dimensions developed early in the day because of a lack of unanimity that prevailed as to the proper hour for the stage performance to take place. Admission being free, the populace of the surrounding country turned out eu masse. The country people got in early and demanded that the suspension take place at 10 a. m. so they could go home for dinner. The town people demurred, as they were determined that the people should patronize the restaurants, and the stores incidentally, and thus help business—“ Killing two birds with one stone,” so to speak. Mr. Evans, the party most interested, was not consulted, so that the hanging took place at the noon hour, and the people who were so desirous to get home in time for dinner were compelled to partake of a late repast or part with some of their cash for Bardstown refreshments. “Vanity, thy name is woman,” is a proverb the truth of which is often illustrated. Few members’ of the fair sex would care, however, to go to the extremes in pursuit of appearances that Miss Thornton, a California actress, did recently in New York, in search of a “pretty” nose. The facial protuberance that Miss Thornton had been compelled to follow through life was a veritable “thorn” in the flesh that made life a burden and fame a delusion and a snare. It was of the Roman type, not at all exaggerated, and no one would have considered it a deformity. But the ambitious actress thought otherwise, and accordingly went to the Robsevelt Hospital and gave the attendingsurgeonsa“carte blanche” to make a symmetrical’ proboscis out of the abundance of material on hand —or rather “on face.” The deed was done without serious consequences, by a skillful removal of a small portion of the bone, and the harmony of the actress’s features was fully restored, to her own satisfaction and the enrichment of the sawbones staff of the institution.

New York Press. >» . While the Chemical National is undoubtedly the richest of New York banks, to be a stockholder in which is to have financial standing at few of the city banks that pay any dividends at all pay so little on the market price of the stock. The book value is $2,540 a share (par $100), but the last sale was at54,452J, and even though the bank pays 150 per cent, per annum in bi-monthly dividends, that amounts to only a trifle more than 3 per cent, upon the market value of the stock. The Fifth National, which has the next highest value per share among all New York banks, pays over 4 per cent. The last sale of stock was at $540 for SIOO shares, and $2,000 is now bid. Upon the investment the Fifth Avenue pays best of all, for the rate is 80 per cent, per annum, the last sale being at 625, with 2,000 now bid, amounting to 12 per cent, on the price. A flaxseed lemonade is excellent for a cold. Try a small quantity at first. To do this take a pint of water and add two small tablespoonfuls of the seed, the juice of two lemons, not using the rind, and sweeten to taste. When too pasty the mixture may be diluted with water. Always ice for drinking.