Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1894 — An Omaha Real Estate Story. [ARTICLE]

An Omaha Real Estate Story.

•‘First cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.” The California Mid-Winter Fair earned expenses and a $200,000 surplus. the disposal of which has not been made public. A correspondent of the San Francisco Examiner 'calls upon the director-general for an explanation. > ■. -- Queen Victoria is aconstant sufferer from —rheumatism, —and —has abandoned her proposed trip to Italy the coming winter. • She will probablv go to Wiesbaden for treatment. The P rincess of Wales is also a sufferer from the same painful affliction. It is not much satisfaction, nevertheless, the fact that these people who believe they occupy their exalted stations by divine right, suffer just the same as any old grandmother in the backwoods from “roomatics.” is 'S’-' a striking illustration of the vanities of life. - Times must be awful hard at Indianapolis if reports in the daily press can be trusted. Every per- _ formanee of lhc big jr&bow ''J^ast Days of Pompeii.” failed to attract more than 7,0.00 spectators. This was all the people that could by any possibility be crowded into the pen whore the.spectacle was produced. If the times had not been so hard the pen would doubtless have been built of twice the capacity, and audiences of 10,000 to 15,000 would have attended. Shows appear to be a necessity of life to a large number of human beings. People have been known to ride on the back of mad bulls, bucking bronchos, kicking donkeys, maneating sharks, ferocious alligators and various Other dangerous and novel steeds in the past, but not until Sept. 0. 1894, did mortal man ever ride a torpedo intended to blow up a ship. A soldier named Muller accomplished that feat in New York harbor on the date mentioned. He rode the death-dealing messenger, now propelled by electricity through the water at the rate of eighteen miles an hour,, and then returned to the shore in safety, where he was given an enthusiastic reception by the naval officials conducting the experiment. - "We, as a people, are becoming aesthetic and refined to a degree. High art lias taken a strong hold in high places. The Treasury artists have devised a new fiye-dollar silver certificate, which is said to be a “corker.” It will have an “angel with wings” hovering over a view of the national capital in company with the “sweet dove of peace.” This may be all right from an artistic standpoint, but is calculated to convey an erroneous impression. Angels with wings haven’t been in the neighborhood of the national capital for many moons, and the “sweet dove of peace” has doubtless returned to the ark “because she found_.no rest for the sole of her foot,” for she has not been seen in Washington for some time. Miss Piuebe Irwin, a sprightly maid of fifty-five unaccountably warm summers, the majority of which, including the memorable season of 1894, have been passed at Ottumwa, la., has sued the very venerable and Rev. Christopher Columbus Lazenby, a weary pilgrim stranger of eighty cold and uncharitable winters, for breach of promiss, asking for $20,000 to buy court plus-'-ter, wherewith to bind the bleeding wounds inflicted by the aforesaid Christopher while trifling with her immature affections. This has been a very disastrous season for young lovers. Only a few weeks ago we had occasion to mention the heartrending case of Small vs. Smith, at Detroit, aged seventy and sixty respectively. Guardians for orphans of such tender years should use great caution in the management of the love" affairs of their wards. The recent report of Carroll D. Wright, commissioner of labor, who has been making investigations as to the condition of the poor in the large cities of the United States, affords some valuable and interesting statistics. In regard to liquor saloons the report shows that in New York there is one saloon to every 200 persons; in Philadelphia one to 870 persons; Baltimore, one to 228 persons; Chicago, one to 212 persons; Indianapolis, one to 345 population. The number of saloons in proportion to population is very suggestive of the profits that can be nuvte in the business. Au analysis

of the figures, taking Indianapolis as an example, • with its population of about 150,000, shows that 345 people, on an average, support a saloon. At the customary ratio of one adult to every five of population this gives to each saloon ran adult patronage of but sixty-five L Few will claim that more than one-half of the adu't population are habitual patrons of the saloon. This leaves the comparatively small average of not more than thirty-five adult pa-trons,*”-on which a saloon must count for support. ....... - - The conn try will be surprised to learn that the artistic treasures from ; the Vatican, exhibited at the World’s Fair, have lain in the vaults and corridors of* the State Department at Washington since last December . until quite recently At lasfisc ■ Washington dispatches state, Secre - tary Herbert has notified the commander of the gunboat Machias that he will be expected to “take charge of the articles and convey them tc Naples ' when he sails from New YoM< for China about the middle of September.” An infinite amount ol red tape has been unrolled in procuring even this concession, although the articles were loaned to this government by the Pope on the express agreement that they were to be conveyed to this country on a man-of-war, kept under guard and promptly returned by the same or a similar vessel at the close of the exposition. Mgr. Satolli, Archbishop Ireland and other Catholic dignitaries have been put to a great deal of trouble about the matter. The affair is not credit- ■ able to the United States. Our j treatment of different foreign countries in regard to their exhibits has been the reverse of polite, and it is fortunate that we do not contemplate another exposition in the near future. Foreigners will be very cautious how they trust us next time.' What has been everybody’s business has proved to be nobody’s, ; and the natural result ensued. We | “Chicagoed” the world, and have . sent abroad an erroneous impression , of the American character. Mr. A. C. Williams, of Las Vegas, N. M., under date of Sept. 10, writes j to the Indianapolis Journal in a way ■ intended to discourage emigration to the Southwest. He states that; so many Indiana young men have gone to New Mexico in search of employment, only to find the situation there much worse than at home, that he believes it to be his duty’ to warn every one to keep away unless they have plenty of means to pay high board bills and take them back when ! they tire of that desert country. I Two weeks previous an Indiana I boy’ was found starving by’ the side ‘of the railway track, having eaten i nothing for five days. This is only ; one instance among many similar distressing occurrences. Even when I work is to be had it is so laborious and poorly'paid that men can not endure it long. Mr. Williams cites instanceslwherelmen have had to work eighteen hours a day for $2 a week and board. A few school teachers might find employment in the mountains at S3O per month, but the demand is very limited. There are at this time not less than 500 tramps in the Territory who are entirely dependent on charity. The Southwest is a desert country, and is only cultivated in valley’s where irrigation is possible—hence is thinly populated and comparatively poor. Mr., Williams advises people looking for employment or business to keep away from New. Mexico.

Chicago Record. They toll a story of a man who came into Omaha one day and wanted to trade his farm for some city lots. “All right,” replied the real estate agent. “Get into my buggy and I'll drive you out to some of the finest residence sites in the world —water, sewers, paved street, cement sidewalks, electric light, shade trees, and all sorts of things,” and away they drove four or five miles into the country. The real estate agent expatiated upon the beauty of the surroundings. the value of the improvements made and projected, the convenience of; the location, the ease and speed with which people who lived there could reach town, and the certainly of an active demand for such lots in the immediate future. Then, when he was breathless, he turned to his companion and asked: “Where’s your farm?” “We passed it coming out here,” was the reply. “It’s about two miles nearer town.” The longest plants in the world are sea-weeds. One tropical and sub-tropical variety is known which measures in length, when it reacned its full development, at least 600 feet. Spa-weeds do not receive any nourishment from the sediments at the bottom or borders of the sea, but only from air and mineral matters held in solution in the sea water. A tree can bo felled with an electric. wire in one-eighth of the time it would require to saw it down.