Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1894 — A Woman's Wit. [ARTICLE]

A Woman's Wit.

fco the Lord; but a just weight is his delight.” An iron chimney is being built at Chicago that will be 350 feet high when complete. The largest “stack” in the world at present is at Darwen. Lancashire, England. It is 275 feet high and twenty-eight feet in diameter. * There is a lively demand for hickory firewood in New York city, the nabobs preferring that variety to burn in open fireplaces. The suppiv is principally obtained from the Catskills and eastern Pennsylvania, but the genuine shellbark is becoming very scarce and commands a fancy price. Twesty-sevbs States have legislated against the cigarette in one form or another, but the annual consrmption of the baneful product increases at an alarming rate in spite of all restrictions. The intense nervous strain, that is a National characteristic, is fist transfonnin g the American people into a nation of cigarette smokers. “ Lord Randolph Churchill, the distinguished English statesman, is said to be suffering from an incurable disease, which necessitates, or at least for which he uses, alcoholic stimulants to excess. Recently, in 'Parliament, while under the “inflooence,” he developed the usual symptoms of a maudlin drunk and gave the dignified body an exhibition of clownish antics that disgusted his friends and gratified his enemies. The pie industry in New York city has reached vast proportions. All manner of labor-saving devices have been brought into use to increase the profits on the traffic. There is now said to be "a huge factory in operation whose sole output is “lemon pie filling”. The “stuff” is hauled about the city and delivered at restaurants and bakeries in ordinary wooden buckets. The idea is not specially appetizing, but almost anything “goes" in Gotham. Queen Victoria is becoming exclusive, and the official announcement that only 200 presentations will be made at each of the two “drawing rooms.” to be given in May. has thrown any number of maids and dames into hysterical indignation. Such arbitrary limitations are entirely unprecedented, and have added to the already ominous dissatisfaction and strife against the royal family and the House of Lords.

Representative Jerry Simpson. the sockless statesman of Kansas,' is fathering a scheme looking to the co-operation of the United States and Canada in the construction of a canal from the Georgian Bay, on the east shore of Lake Huron, by way of Lake Sirneoe and other smaller lakes to Lake Ontario, thus saving 800 miles of the present, route via Lake Erie and the Welland Canal. It is estimated that not over 100 miles of the new route will have to be excavated. Tnr. disestablishment of the English church in Wales has recently been proposes! in the House df Commons by Mr. Asquith, Home Secretary in the present English cabinet. Mr. Asquith asserted that Welshmen regarded the Church of England as an aggressive and sectarian power that was a constant irritation and source of discord. The gross income of the Church in W T ales is £279,000 per annum. Under the act proposed this sum will be utilized for hospitals, parish halls, libraries, laborers’ dwellings, etc. Several members of the late Salisbury cabinet vigorously opposed the change, and the matter is still unsettled.

Tne city “dads” of Newbury, N. Y., are in a dilemma because the “mams” have knocked out their scheme to raise $50,000 for a new oity hall by additional taxation. Under the new law in that State women are permitted to vote at all municipal elections at which taxpayers are liable to have additional burdens placed upon them. The ladies exhibited a preat deal of independence on this initial occasion, and pave every one t# jnderstand that they did not care who saw their tickets or knew how they voted. They voted their sentiments and were prepared to abide the consc qucnees. The utilitarian spirit of the ape does not for a moment hesitate to appropriate or ruin the priceless

treasures of ancient civilization when they may .be utilized for the purposes of gain, or when by reason of their location they stand in the way of the restless progress of the hour. Now, it is said, the ancient island of Phihe, in the Nile, will be submerged with all its treasures of h ierogly phics and temples by huge dam to be constructed by an Egyptian irrigation company. A reservoir will thus be created that will extend southward 100 miles into Nubia, and all the priceless archaeological treasures of that famous locality will be lost to modern man because it is deemed profitable to raise a few more barrels of rice and bales of cotton. The “Cholly” boys of Gotham are agitated over the necktie question — or scarfs, as they prefer to call them. They have been paying from two to five dollars for this article, and at last have become aware that some one was working quite an extensive swindle at their expense. Many now go to London and lay in a supply, as an incidental item to the trip, but a still larger number of “awful nice" young men give their orders to men who call at their rooms and take their “measure”, and make a business of furnishing the scarfs of the finest quality at 75 cents each.

A writer in the Commercial Ga Gazette gives a labored account of a machine, which he alleges is a Russian Invention, that always acts as a pilot to the'Czar’s special train, stat* ing that it has but recently been introduced for the special purpose of examining the railway tracks over which the royal train proposes to travel. After the reader has waded through a mass of descriptive matter concerning this alleged Russian invention it begins to dawn upon him that it is a description of the ordinary railway bicycle that has been in use in this country for at least fifteen years, with the exception that it is somewhat more cumbersome and unwieldly. It is said to weigh a ton and although one man can operate it he can not remove it from the track.

Mr. Reinhart, who from some unaccountable reason failed to enlist in some of the numerous Commonweal armies, called on John D. Rockefeller, at New York, the other day, and said to the servants that he had a message direct from heaven, stating that the end of the world was in sight. He also put in a claim for his share of the $05,000,000, which, he stated, Mr. Rockefeller had no further use for. The Standard Oil King was “not at home” that day, and Mr. Reinhart was entertained at the police station. On the way to the lock-up he told the officer that he had read in the papers that Rockefeller had $65,000,000 and he thought he ought to divide. On being questioned the man seemed rational enough and he was held for trial on a charge of loitering.

Tiie “servant gal” question has been reduced to an exact science in Germany.—Every female domestic servant is required to keep a little book in which her history, age, previous service and other information is recorded, that is always under the surveillance of the police. The book, in fact, is a sort of license,and a servant cannot obtain employment unless her record is satisfactory. Once a week the employer pastes a stamp in the book, purchased from the government, of the. value of about five cents. These stamps will be redeemed! by the government if the servant becomes incapaciated from sickness or old age, and an insurance fund is thus obtained that is frequently a great convenience tc the maid of all work. But such espionage would hardly prove popular in America. The spirit of independence is too strong to calmly submit to any such regulations.

Minneapolis J ourual. Just as the door of the City Clerk’s office was due to be closed, the other night, two young ladies called aud said they were looking for a marriage license. “This is not the place,” explained the sober-faced clerk. “The Clerk of the Court issues them at the court house, but you are too late tc get down there before he leaves.” “Isn’t that too provoking?” remarked one of the. maidens with a pout equally provoking. “They told us that this was tjie place to gel licenses.” “It is—dog licenses,!’ the facetious clerk answered. “Tho license is for me, not, you, sir,” answered the girl, and a deep hush fell over the city seal. ; The more you can induce the lambs, to eat the faster they wjlj grow and the sooner they will reach the market. Ground oats make the best grain food. Place it where they can eat all they desire. Feed the ewes liberally, also, in order to provide the very young lambs with plenty of milk. »