Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1894 — August in Kentucky. [ARTICLE]

August in Kentucky.

“But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing-.” It is stated that the hospitals of Germany are now caring for 11.000 victims of delirium tremens, but information is lacking as to whether these unhappy mortals acquired their jags by means of the soothing • rager or some more active agent. The W. C. T. U. ’way out.in CalP" 'ornia have gone on the war path for grocery men who sell tobacco. They - will boycott all-such dealers. The world is going to be reformed very fast, if this can be regarded as an indication of what the future has in store for poster it y... No beer, no cigars, no scan, mans! The outlook is dreary for newspapers that delight in the sensational.

The death of Mrs. Amanda Frank, of Muncie, who was killed by lightning on —the evening of May 27 th was very remarkable, and discloses a new source of danger in a hitherto unthought-of direction. Mrs. Frank was standing under a wire clothes line, one end of which was attached to a tree fifty feet away. The lightning struck' the tree and the woman was killed instantly.—the wire acting as a conductor—and her shoes were torn into shreds. The entire body, limbs and hair were badly burned. Your share of the wealth of this great republic is $1,039. You may have more than this amount, but if you have less you will have to hustle to get that amount on the tax duplicate. In 1850 the total valuation of real and personal property in the United States was a little over $7,000,000,000, or S3OB per capita. In 1870 it was $30,000,000, or S7BO per capita. In 1880 it wa# $43,500,000,000, or SB7O per capita, while in 1890 it was $65,037,091,000, or $1,039 per capita. New York is the richest State in the Union with $8,500,000,000 valuation.

“Gentleman Jim’’ Corbett has scored as great a success in London social circles as he ever did in the fistic arena. He has been entertained and lionized.by the elite —peo--ple who would not dreaimiLassociating with Sullivan or Mitchell—every minute he has been able to spare from his theatrical engagements. His audiences at Drury Lane Theatre have been made up of the better class of people to the almost entire exclusion of the rough element that usually attends such performances"” A great music hall has offered him $2,500 weekly for the summer, but he will probably be unable to accept because of his engagements in other English cities as well as in Ireland and Paris.

People would do well to use caution when handling their ducks—genus “Anas boschas.” A poultry dealer qf Indianapolis has been arrested on complaint of the Humane Society on a charge of inhumanly tying the wings of innumerable fowls. Exhaust!ve expert testimony for and against the defendant was submitted. The Judge took the case under advisement and after conducting a series of experiments to determine whether tying a duck's wings over its back was cruelty to the bird, fined the offender $5 and costs. It does not appear of record, however, that the Judge was fined for his experiments, which were possibly as cruel as the original offense. •>

Tee great human ostrich died in London, last month, a martyr to his profession. He had for years astonished audiences with his remarkable capacity for absorbing indigestible substances—such as bullets, corks, leather, strings, tin foil, coins, pocket books, pipe stems, etc. Not satisfied with his achievements, he determined to add fishhooks to his bill of fare. It was too much for poor, weak human nature. An autopsy showed that one hook had perforated the man’s intestines, causing death. Quite an assortment of damaged hardware was rescued from the depths of gastric juice in which it had been for some time submerged. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict of death from misadventure. The cruiser Michigan is supposed to hold up the dignity dnd impress Canadian authorities with the power and importance of the United States on the Great Lakes. The officers of this somewhat insignificant vessel receive full pay the same as if detailed for sea duty, and they appreciate

the “snap” to its full extefit, their positions being practically sinecures, without danger from any source. Even the subordinate marines who man the ship are &bl% by a little management, to have every other day off duty without incurring the pf -their -superibra or suffering any reduction of their salaries. The Keadquarters of this boat are at Erie. Pa.

Junius Henri Browne in a recent article in Harper’s Magazine,attempts to set a limit as to the lowest income that a man with a wife and two children cun live upon in anyth in g 1i ke Tes pee table sty 1 e in TNe r w YorbCity-, and places the amount at $2,000 to $2.500 per annum. ’ People who exist on a less amount are sup- ! posed to be enduring great hardi ships. The probability is that this distinguished author -is entirely incompetent to give a correct estimate of such mat tens. He‘flies . to., high” or he would be able to see hundreds of happy homes that are maintained on an income of half that amount, I and the people who enjoy Hfe on SI,OOO per year would not be classed as —belonging—-to the dependent classes, either, as Mr. Browne infers. Two thousand five hundred dollars per annum is not affluence, but it is a very handsome compe-" tence that would be deemed ample by a great majority of the fathers of America.

The stories that come from Washdreds of employes who have been discharged from the government printingoffice, ostensibly in the interests'of economy, are not calculated to increase the admiration of people ih general for official life on the lower rounds of the ladder of fame. Many of these people have had constant employment at high wages for ten years, yet have not enough money to buy a railroad ticket to their native towns. It is the old story of fast living? improvidence, dissipation, “wilful waste and woeful want.” More people are ruined by what they at first deem great good fortune in finding public employment than in all the private business enterprises of the country. In business life efficiency and faithfulness, as a rule,, count for something. In the publjp service the man with the strongest “pull” gets the job regardless of the injustice in displacing an efficient employe to make room for him An average man who can : make a dollar a day sawing wood is better off than any of the minor employes of Uncle Sam.

From "A Kentucky Cardinal". Harper's Magazine for JlinC. In August the pale and delicate poetry of the Kentcky land makes itself felt as silence and. repose. Still skies, still woods, still sheets of forest water, still flocks and herds, long lanes winding without the sound of a traveler through fields of thc unn-ersakArooding stiHiressr The sun no longer blazing, but muffledin a veil of palest blue. No more black clouds rumbling and rushing up from the horizon, but a single white one brushing slowly against the zenith like the lost wing of a swan. Far beneath it, the silver-breasted hawk, using the cloud as his ' lordly parasol. The eagerness of spring gone, now alt but incredible as having ever existed; the birds hushed and hiding; the bee, so nimble once, fallen asleep over his own cider-press in the shadow of the golden apple. From the depths of the woods may come the notes of the cuckoo; but they strike the air more and more 'slowly, like the clack, clack, clack of a distant wheel that is being stopped at the close of harvest. From the whirring wings of the locust there flows one long last wave of abandoned sound, passing into silence. All nature a very sacred goblet, filling drop by drop to the brim and not to be shaken. But the stalks of the later flowers begin to be stuffed with hurrying bloom, lest they be too late; and the nighthawk rapidly mounts his stairway of flight higher and higher, higher and higher, as though he would rise above the warm white sea of atmosphere and breathe in cold ether.