Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1894 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

John Pigta/l Chinaman is reported to be cheerfully coming forward to register and have his “picture tuk” out west, notwithstanding the efforts of the high binders, and ather Chinese influences, to prevent his eonjpliance with the law.

**How much less to him that aceepteth not the persons of princes oor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work oi his hands. In a moment they shall die and the people shall be troubledatmidnight and pass away.”

Colorado women, having succeded to the dignity of voters, have also, when registering, been accorded the honor of having a recognized occupation, and put themselves on record as “Housewives." This “dodge" is credited to the inventive powers of the wife of ex-Gov. Routt, and is said to have relieved many ladies, as well as election boards, from much embarrassment.

Mayor Hopkins, of Chicago, has directed Comptroller Ackerman to retain ten per cent, of his salary every month and turn it into the general fund. The city finances of the western metropolis are in a bad way And this action of the Mayor is commended by papers who strenuously opposed his election. It is said that other high-salaried officials will follow the good example set by their ' chief. Ir the recent decision of the MarvJ land Court of Appeals should become fcn accepted interpretation of law throughout the country and its rigid enforcement be insisted upon the Seventh-Day Adventists will have reason to regard themselves as a persecuted sect who are made to suffer for opinion’s sake. Members of that denomination in the rural districts of Maryland have been arrested and fined for husking corn on Sunday snd the court of last resort has affirmed the verdict.

The cheering information given to the public on the 10th by the New York mercantile agencies that for the week ending Feb. 9th three * hundred factories/VOL’gddle, throughout the country, bad resumed operations, should be an assurance to every one that an era of prosperity has already set in. May the day soon dawn that shall see it fully established —the wheels of industry all in motion, idle men only those who are idle from choice—and want and destitution banished from our land.

The fate of the British warship . Victoria has called the attention of naval architects throughout the world to the fatal weakness of modern iron-cluds. The up-to-date manof war is almost universally unfitted for sailing, if not actually dangerous to its crew when in motion. All are top-heavy and liable to be overturned by any chance wave that is at all out of the ordinary. The resent acquisitions to the navy of the United States come under this class, and a movement has been inaugurated looking to a thorough investigation of the matter.

Mbs. Lease, of Kansas, announces that she does not propose to release her lease on the Kansas State Board of Charities for the simple reason that Gov. Lewelling is determined to release the distinguished lady from further public service that has been so inadequately recompensed in the past. Mrs. Lease publicly states that the salary attached to the position is no object, but as her continuance in office appears to be distasteful to those she considers her enemies she will “hold the,fort” indefinitely “just to spite ’em,” and incidentally to vindicate her own character from the aspersions shied in her direction by the aforesaid enemies. Mrs. L. is evidently a sticker from Stickerville, and this is her time to stick.

Tni last Indiana Legislature passed a law providing !that township officers shall hereafter be elected at general elections to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1894, and every four years thereafter, which election shall be conducted by the provisions of the law governing the said general election. A law Was also passed and approved providing fqr the appointment of road supervisors by township trustees. This law had an emergency clause and took effect before the law changing the time for holding township •leotions and cannot be construed to extend the terms of road supervisors then in office. The names of the ttndidate* for township offices

are to bp printed on separate ballots of a yellow color, and are to be deposited in separate ballot boxes are to be painted yellow. People whp have been accustomed to watch the April elections for political “straws” will in the future be compelled to get their pointers from some other source.

Editor Stead, who is still in Chicago as a sort of John the Baptist "evangelist, has given Mayor Hopkins' a certificate of character in a recent public address, in which he said that “at present the Mayor’s face is set toward Zion.” Partisan opponents have taken exceptions to the statements of Mr. Stead, and continue to reflect severely upon Mr. Hopkins in many ways, principally, however, upon local matters of administration that are not of especial interest to outsiders. The remarkable circumstance to be noted by people at a distance is this statement that a Mayor of Chicago “has his face set toward Zion.” “Can any good thing come out of Chicago?’^

Lovers of canned salmon will regret to learn that there are unmistakable evidences of a diminution and possible failure in the supply of their favorite staple, because of wasteful and highly improper methods of fishing now in vogue on the Columbia river. The supply of fish in those waters has always been regarded as inexhaustible, but, with characteristic American profligacy, the fishermen in that part of the world rose to the emergency and can now philosophically view the situation brought about by their own disregard of even common prudence in the management of the vanished wealth that is now but a spendthrift’s dream. The catch for the past year has not been a tenth as large as in former years on the Columbia, but on the Fraser river, in British Columbia, where adequate laws for the protection of the fish are strictly enforced, thfe„ catch has exceeded that of any/previous year. One big packer has removed his business from the State of Washington to British Columbia, j

Henry Labouchere thinks that it ought to be the custom for women to make proposals of marriage. He that when a bachelor became acquainted with a charming woman, he would exert himself, by good conduct, to win a proposal frojrf her. The Rev. Thomas Dixon, Who preached Sunday on prize-fighting and denounced it, has knocked out his man-more than once. He started his career as an actor, biffed his man under the ear and abandoned the stage for the pulpit. He is six feet two and all steel, and comes of Georgia fighting stock. —New York World.

Senator Perkins, of California, is booked for a lecture before the geographical society of Washington on the whale fishery. The Senator was a whale fisher in his early days before he went to California,. William Lane Booker, the British Consul-General, who has just been knighted, remains thoroughly British in outward aspect after nearly forty years’ residence in this country,. He is above the medium hight, neither stout nor spare, ruddy, grizzled, blue-eyed, and slightly bent at the shoulders. He walks rapidly, and pays little attention to persons or things upon the street. It used to be said that one of his duties wa to receive the rents from Queen Victoria’s real estate in New York.

Switzerland has within a few mbnths lost two of her most eminent theologians, M. Auguste Bonvier, who for many years was at the head of the moderate liberal party in the Geneva University and Church, and M. Augustin Gretillat, who was at Neuchatel the representative of orthodox evangelical theology. James Robinson, who for a long time held the title of champion bareback rider of the world, is spending his declining years on his farm in Missouri. He is by no means an old man, but has retired from the circus arena. He stilL has many of the valuable gifts that he received in many parts of the world, including those from Queen Victoria and the old Emperor William of Germany. Mr. Robinson is the same little, wiry man that he always was, and, except for his hair, has not the appearance of being more than forty years old. Jay Cooke, the financier, is spending the evenings of his life at Ogontz, his suburban home, near Philadelphia. He is seventy-three years old and in excellent health. He spends his summers in Gibraltar Island, in Lake Erie, which he owns.

A little matter like Sabbath desecration does not bother President Carnot, of France. A few Sundays ago he gave a shooting party, at which 400 pheasants, 209 rabbits and 1,500 roebucks were bagged. The game was distributed to the Paris hospitals. Dr. Tatanage now declares his intention to preach his farewell sermon in the Brooklyn Tabernacle on the first Sunday in March, and shortly afterward he will set out on a journey around the world, going from San Francisco to Honolulu,and then to Australia, New Zealand and India.