Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1894 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Ltn is too short to eat oranges with a spoon. Ik the meantime, who is representing Col. Breckinridge’s district in Congress? Coxey’s Common weal Army has been called ‘‘The Army of Peace,” yet one fatality has already resulted. An Ohio farmer foil dead of heart disease when he saw the rugged hosts approaching. It is said to have been a heart rending sight.'* Prenderoast may be insane, but his ravings since tho stay of proceedings were granted that saved his neck strike the average mipd as being overdone, and are Very suggestive of collusion with his attorneys. Evidently he is acting a part and doing it well.

The interest on the bonds of the Mexican National Railway is payable in gold and that corporation suffered a loss in 1893 on this account — by reason of converting its revenues, which are almost entirely collected in silver,—of $761,929. The losses of American railways from this source are not apparent and can not be traced. The probability is that they did not lose any thing.

The bankruptcy of the Salvation Army of Kansas City is announced. It is not supposed that this will make any material difference in the city revenues. There has never been much money in salvation any place. Still the fact that the illiterate venders of free salvation are in v hard lines and can no longer continue their missionary efforts in behalf of the heathen on our western frontier is worthy of comment and perhaps regret.

April’s here, winter drear is a thing of the past and at last storm and frost we have lost on the way. Clouds and rain may remain, but they’ll bring and upon the earth will fling blossoms gay that will say: ‘'Only wait, sure as fate harvest comes to your homes and we’ll fill till they spill all your bins and the tins; you may eat fruit and wheat and the land great and grand Shall rejoice with one voice. Harvost home it will come and the garnered fruit and grain wiil remain as a sign of a favor divine.” So the spring hope doth bring to the gay and the £ad to the good and the bad, and we feel as upon our drowsy senses steal visions bright that delight, balmy airs that our cares do allay while the fragrant odors stay, that 'tis joy even tho’ it has alloy—just t-o live.

The peculiar phase of constitutional insanity that prompts people to scratch their names add initials upon public buildings, and in other less creditable places, is giving the Commissioners of the Soldiers’ Monument at Indianapolis a great deai of trouble. Notwithstanding several persons, including a half-dozen refined and elegant young ladies of the city, have been arrested and fined for the offense, almost every day a new infraction of the rules and iaw is reported, in spite of the watchfulness of the officers in charge. Why otherwise rational people will yield to an impulse, when they cannot but know that detection will surely be followed by nnplcasant consequences, is a mystery that has not vet been satisfactorily explained.

“Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” There cannot be two opinions as to which class “Gen.” J. S. Coxey belongs, Whatever one may think of his motives, methods or the principles advocated by him and brought into such prominence by his “march to the sea,” the fact remains that by this proceeding he has achieved notoriety, fame, a certain “honor”, and an assured place in the history of his country. “Coxey’s crusade” will at least rank with “Shay's Rebellion”, if it does not accomplish the reforms which its projector alleges he is striving for. Many people will be uncharitable enough to say that this is all that Coxey is airafng at. If that be thexase, then he will assuredly succeed in attaining the summit ofhis ambition. “Honesty' is the best policy!” This has been proved so often that it would seem that business men would have long ago made the proverb the inexorable rule that should govern all transactions. Yet some Olarkßvllle, Tenn., tobacco dealers, when shipping their consignments to Bremen, Germany, recently, thought they saw a chance to escape

from this old-time adage. Their shipments failed to tally with the samples that led to the sale in quaffty, and the Bremen tobacco importers in a body rose in arms against Clarksville tobacco, sending a communication to the Clarksville Tobacco Board of Trade that in the future they would positively refuse to buy the weed when it bore the Clarksville brand. The Board at once took action and sent a vote of thanks to the Bremen importers for calling their attention to the matter. “Chickens will come home to roost,” even if sent to the other side of the world. ' .— _

A suit of general interest, the result of which will establish a precedent of great importanoe, was begun at Indianapolis on the 3rd inst.,--be-ing a demand for $2,000 damages against the proprietor of a pool room, the plaintiff alleging that he had at various times lost sums aggregating $2,000, which he had wagered on horse races, in the defendant’s establishment. Other suits of a similar character are expected to follow. If it shall be finally established that parties can recover the sums lost in gambling rooms from their proprietors, the “industry” will probably languish and go into a decline. Very few men engage in the business “for their health” or for sport., but are generally fishing for “suckers” like the plaintiff in this case. If they can not “land their fish” they will likely engage in other avocations.

Mount Calbuco, a comparatively small elevation in Chili, which has not in historic times shown evidences of being a volcano, on Feb. 24, 1893, produced a phenomena showing that its long lost activity has been regained. From that time until the 23d of last October the mountain was incessantly in action with occasional outbursts that ruined the country for many miles around. On that day ashes fell at Orsono, sixty miles away, in such quantities as to obscure the sun, so that lamps were 'necessary in all the houses of the town. Mount Calbuco is located about 41 deg. s. lat., in such a remote and isolated quarter of the world that no advices later than October 23, 1893, have been received at New York. The little volcano is 1,000 feet lower than Mount Washington. Its “resumption of business at the old stand” is a surprise to scientific and geographical authorities.

Canon Wilberforce. it is said, thinks that animals, as well as man, have souls and will enjoy a future life. Since his recent attack of the grip the Czar has betrayed symptoms- of a permanent affection of the lungs. He will probably make his imperial residence at Kiev, where the climate is more favorable than at St. Petersburg. Senator George, of Mississippi, preserves the primeval customs ol the plantation in He goes to bed not long, after sundown —usually between 8 and 9 o’clock — rises in time for a 6-o’clock breakfast. and otherwise regulates his habits by the sun. Iu official dress the Sultan of Jahore wears, including his crown, $12,500,000 worth of diamonds. His collar, epaulettes, belts, cuffs and orders blaze with diamonds. On his wrists are heavy gold bracelets, and his fingers are covered with almost priceless rings. The Prince of Wales is in constant dread of being trampled beneath the feet of a crowd, and he rarely appears in public except in a carriage which affords some protection. His appearance is the instant signal for a great crowd to collect. Max O’Rell says he has found only two nations where women are the leaders —France and America. In Amerujd. from the age of eighteen , a girl is allowed almost every liberty —she takes the rest. In France the women are not frivolous, he maintains. as is commonly supposed. They have a knowledge of their husband’s business and a voice in the management of his affairs. Speaking of Alexander H, Stephens, whom he knew personally, Richard Malcolm Johnston says that he was not a good judge of men. “The poorest, meanest, shabbiest negro could impose upon him, and he was deceived again and again by beggars and frauds. He was the soul of generosity. He made, I venture, as much as $300,000 during his lifetime, but he died poor. He spent his money as fast as he made it and he didn't seem to appreciate its value. His law practice was large during a great part of his life, and he received a great deal of money from his books. His “Constitutional Views of the War” must have sold about seventy thousand copies. It was published in two volumes. His royalty was 25 cents a volume, and his receipts from it amounted to $35,000. Ho kept open house at Liberty Hall, his place in Georgia, and every train brought him guests, some of whom he had nevsr met before. He was fond of society and was a most oharming talker.