Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1894 — PARTISAN COURTIERS. [ARTICLE]

PARTISAN COURTIERS.

“Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy; rid them out of the hand of the wicked." Gov. Tillman, of South Carolina, b on the war-path and announces his determination to enforce the lfquor Jaw of that State to the letter even if it requires the entire militia force at his command to successfully carry out its provisions. He will brook no opposition to or competition with the legally authorized State dispensaries of alcoholic beverages. Tnn exclusive and dignified United States Senate rejected Mr. Hornblower. Mrs. Emily S. Nelson, of New York, took a different view of bis merits and married him. He will doubtless be. a very good husband, if he cannot be a Supreme Cqurt justice, as the lady was the 6ister of his deceased wife and had lived in his family for seven years, the most of the time a widow.

It is stated for a fact that Hon. W. H. English, of Indianapolis, has such a prejudice against elevators that he has never rode in one, and he avers that he. would Climb 500 feet of stairway rather than take a risk of accident which he feels is always hanging over the reckless mortals who daily soar and plunge betwixt heaven and earth to save a little time and extra exertion.

The 90th birthday of Gen. NealDow. March 20. 1804. is to be generally observed throughout the United States by meetings in the interest of temperance reform. Neal Dow was born in Portland, Me., March 20, 1804, and there are few men of seventy who are to-day so active and well preserved in every way as he is at eighty-nine. His entire manhood has been devoted to an earnest advocacy of total Abstinence from alcoholic beverages. Representative citizens of the aouth of Ireland will soon hold a meeting at Cork to urge the British government to maintain the Queenstown mail route to and from America. The British Postmaster-General is said to favor the Southampton route, but the people of Cork and contiguous territory hope to be able to bring sufficient pressure to bear to prevent a change from the present order of things. The Japanese sire models of candor and frankness. They call a spade a spade, and sign their names to their sentiments. A Jap in Sendai recently became convinced that wine drinking was ruining his financial prospects, and thereupon announced in the local newspapers that in-the future he intended to abstain uuless somebody u set 'em up," and signed the remarkable ad. “Takanashi Rvozabaro.”

Indianapolis papers are howling for a pest house, quarreling over the donation of $5,000 to Mr. Fortune, secretary of the Commercial Club, for alleged extra! services during the encampment, finding fault with the quality of meat donated to the poor, sneezing at the Police Superintendent, pitching into the Board of Works for their inaction in improvement matters, abusing the Street Railway Company for inadeqate service—and altogether seem to be in a most unhappy ‘ 'frame” of mind. The possibilities of chemical research are imperfectly understood. Every year new triumphs are achieved in this direction. Recent discoveries have demonstrated that chloroform can be made from natural gas for ten cents a pound. Other chemical compounds are* also to be obtained from this wonderful product of nature, such as methyl and alcohol, at a cost trifling when com- , pared to that of other processes. A company to manufacture such articles will be organize 1 in Indianapolis by a Pittsburg chemist.

The old saying “As cheap as dirt," will hereafter have to be used with qualifying specifications. In other words you must locate the dirt that you intend to use as a simile for a low price on any article. The rate at which extremely small pieces of terra firma have recently been selling in Chicago and in New York has destroyed the usefulness if the time worn adage to a certain extent. The last and most remark-able-sale on record in .this country was for a small block in New York City bounded by Broadway, Cedar, Liberty and Temple, streets, which was knocked down to a Chicago syndicate for $2,700,000. The property was owned by several persons and measures 117 feet on Broadway, 159

feel on Liberty. 115 i feet on Temple. and 152 feet on Cedar street. The block is covered by old build* ings and they have all changed hands within the past three years at prices which would only aggregate $1,490,000, leaving the handsome profit to the foriunate purchasers' who have just “let go" to the Chicago capitalists of $1,210,000 Some dirt is not cheap, even in these hard times.

Germans are proverbially slow going, phlegmatic and disposed to let the world jog on in the old ruts rather than be troubled with modern innovations, but a Berlin stenpg* rapher has lately discovered a trick that even a down east Yankee from the land of wooden nutmegs might emulate and view with envy. Being without sufficient employment be developed a taste for reporting funeral sermons, of which he prepared elaborately ornamented copies, finding a ready sale for his work among the friends of the deeased subject of the discourse. This should serve as a valuable pointer to many of the unemployed graduates of our numerous stenographic institutions.

The evil of smoking*, and especially of cigarette smoking, among the youth of the country, has grown to alarming proportions, and is seemingly rapidly increasing. The effects of all kinds of nicotine poisoning upon boys of immature age has long been known to be ruinous in the extreme. A French physician has recently investigated the effect of smoking on thirty-eight boys of from 9to 15 years of age. Twentyseven were found to exhibit distinct symptoms of nicotine poisoning. In twenty-two there were serious disorders. dullness of intellect and a marked appetite for strong di ink. Four had ulceration of the mouth. “They do these things different in France." It has not been generally known in this country that the late Emperor Louis Napoleon had a son, previous to his marriage with the Empress Eugenie, whose mother was entirely unknown to the records of the aristocracy, as she is to this chronicler, whom he acknowledged publicly as such, bestowing upon him a large tract of territory and the title of Count d'Orx on his accession to the throno of the groat Corsican. Count d’Orx has recently died of the grip, and his demise has brought to public notice the anomalous position that he occupied on account of his descent from an imperial father and an unknown mother of plebian birth and uncertain social position. The late Count is said to have borne astrikiug resemblance to his father, which likeness he took great pains to preserve and enhance jjJnrfe\q»ry way by wearing the imperial and mus4ache.eliaEaaterisUc«aL Louis Napoleon, also imitating his style of dress in all particulars so far as possible, but, unlike his distinguished parent, he at no time evinced any interest in politics, but devoted the years of his manhood to agricultural pursuits.

jßuropcun Queens anil Their Peculiar ' Influence. Marquis de Fontenoy in Chicago Record. At Paris, during the time of the empire, the entourage of the Empress Eugenie was in permanent opposition to the cabinet of the day, the policy of her majesty being in tiagraut contradiction to that of the Emperor with regard to Spain, Rome, Austria and Mexico. Indeed, the disastrous wars of Mexico and Germany, the first of which weakened and discredited the Napoleonic regime, while the second brought about its overthrow, were entirely due to thej,Empress’ party having temporarily gained the upper hand. It was owing to her antagonism to the King of Italy and her pronounced sympathies in favor of the Vatican that Victor Emmanuel declined to come to the rescue of his quondam ally and benefactor, Napoleon 111., in 1870. In Servia Queen Natalie and her entourage were invariably in political opposition to her husband’s ministers, and the same may be said of Carmen Sylva, the Queen of Roumania. In Austria the Empress has always made a point of holding aloof from politics, but her mother-in-law, the Archduchess Sophie, a woman of most reactionary instincts and of masterful mind, permitted her friends and her followers to make her palace the headquarters of the opposition to the progressive and enlightened policy of her ministerial advisers. In Holland, during the reign of the late King, his wife apd be® frifends so openly opposed him and his ministers on all matters of domestic and foreign policy that ho was several times on the point of banishing her from the kingdom. Neither in Belgium nor in Sweden nor in any of the minor German Kingdoms, nor yet in Portugal, does the court of the Queen play any political role, while in Russia both the present Empress and her predecessor, the late Czarina, have followed the example of the Empress of Austria, and have declined to paSrmit their entourage to interfere in any way with the administration of government by the ministers of their husbands.