Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1895 — The Light of Other Days, [ARTICLE]

The Light of Other Days,

; “And Isaac was forty~yeafF*otcF J when he took Rebekah to wife, the (daughter of Bethuel, the Syrian of jPadan-aram, the sister to Laban the j Syrian.” -,y ‘ 1 Boston Christian Scientists have 'dedicated a church costing $200,000. I The ground on which the building stands was given by the celebrated Mary Baker Eddy, and is valued at $40,000. The Society is composed of some of the wealthiest people at the “Hub,” and their church is entirely (free from debt. j, ■ f New York State has two mayors [who answer to the name of Strong. IStrong No. 2 deals out alleged justice in the executive department of I Cohoes. Strong No. lis said toen;vyhis extremely soft job. Mayor (Strong, of New York City, is under stheitripresslbhthaUhehasemTered npon a verj r large contempt. * The Indiana man continues to ;“get there." Geo. W. Aldridge, the Inew Superintendent of Public Works lof New York State, recently appointed by Gov. Morton, was born jin Michigan City. Mr. Aldridge’s 'home is in Rochester, N. Y. He has served five terms on the executive board and has served p.ue %i term as (’mayor of that city. i' Electric lights for carriages are jin common use in France and Gerftnany, The accumulator for a carriageis carried in a box only i inches long by seven high and four wide, and the cost is very much lesg i than for oil lamps, while the quality ■of light is vastly superior. We ap’pear to be at the tail end of the profession in this respect. I New Jersey temperance people arc very much agitated over the dis•'covery that a “speak easy” saloon lis being operated in the State eapijtol building at Trenton, at which, it lis alleged, officials of high and low 'degree obtain all the whisky and ibeer they want at all hours of the i day or night, Sundays included. A {vigorous crusade will be waged (against the institution. i • I Sept. ByePnes is beginning to (“shakeup" the New York police. 'Saturday,. 12, the Police Com■missiouers, on tho recommendations o f the Superintendent, “transplanted” six captains. In jotber, words he took them off the districts where they had flourished for an-in-defi ni t e period a rrcl’ placed -1 be i tr; hr (charge of other districts. “For the (good of the service” was the lplanation'Mr. Byrnes condescended to make. ‘ ‘’’Every cloud has a silver lining,” but poor, weak human nature finds jit very hard to believe the adage (when in the immediate throes of adjversity. The orange growers of ♦Fiyridaxthe morning after the great ic<sd wave that made iceballs Cf their ■product sent up a pitiful wail of utter despair. Yet already the “silver ning" has appeared, as it is known nt the orange scale and the white r, the worst insect pests with .which they have had to contend in the past, have been annihilated. What fruit was saved also commands a higher price, so that what promised to be the cause of total bankruptcy is likely to prove only a trivial annoyance. The somewhat surprising informatian that deer meat is abundant and cheap in nearly all Gorman cities has been transmitted to the State Department by Consul General De. Kay. now in charge of the Berlin United States consulate. The consu 1 calls attention to the recklessness with which Americans have destroyed the wild antffifils of our forests find urges tlfat our great reservations in different parts of the •country be restocked and-protected .by more stringent. laws. The German forests arc largely the property iof noblemen and hunting can only be prosecuted in these domains by permission of the owners. Deer and other wild game therefore flourish tiecir.se they are protected, and as they cost nothing for food and care, the venison can be and is sold at a moderate priqe. It may help us to endure these ‘low down” thermometers to be told that Australia has been sweltering for some time in a temperature entirely unprecedented. Q.u,eLun= dred degrees in the shade has been » common experience, and at one point 112 degrees Fahrenheit was 'reported Jan. 13, Corn is withering and wheat s being cut for hay. An epidemic of a peculiar fever also prevails and the mortality is alarmfay. The grass and bush fires add

additional terrors to the woes of the, unhappy people. This terrestrial! I ball is a very uncomfortable abiding! I place at .times and in spots. Hoosiers 'should congratulate themselves onj jtheir comparative immunity fromj ■these great calamities and try toj induce the trivial annoyances that eventuate from time to time with a becoming spirit of resignation. We really ought to take Newfoundland in “out of the wet.” The territory of that province equals thq State of New York in extent, and the population is only about 300,000. That leaves room for Undeveloped possibilities that only needs thq touch of Yankee enterprise to givcj us a great and powerful State—4 most desirable acquisition' to thd Union on the oast. We need it, not only in a commercial sense." but as a strategic vantage ground of great importance in the future. If “manifest destiny” points to the final .ac- 1 , quisition of the entire North American continent by the United States, as,it doubtless does, we may as well begin on Newfoundland. There is said to be already a formidable sentiment in the province, in favor of annexation to the United States, and the colonial government refuses to be merged into the Dominion of Canada. Business is in a bad way in Newfoundland, owing to depressed conditions in the single industry of importance —the fisheries—and also in a great measure to a depreciated currency. In 18G9 Dr. James Rush, one of Philadelphia’s foremost citizens, died, .leaving a bequest of $1,000,000 for the erection of the Ridgway Library. The building, a magnificent copy in granite of the— Parthenon, was erected by the executor on a site which proved to be unsuitable, bejng too remotq to suit the people of the city, and it stands to-day in the midst of acres of green lawn, surrounded by a high wall, practically 'deserted, save by the janitors. withstanding.the wealth of literature a,t the disposal of students whole days pass without a visitor. The splendid architecture, rare historic treasures and over 400.000 volumes of rare and costly books are not a sufficient attraction . to draw people in any appreciable numbers from their -beaten paths. A writer in the Inter Ocean urges the same objection to the location of the Field Columbian Museum on the site of the World’s Fair at Chicago, averring that the great treasures being collected there are of no practical value, and that the museum will be a failure on account of its unfortunate location. » .......... It is estimated that there are still fiflfißussian...s;ims.in„tliis—meun t, ry. although a large number have been recalled since the accession of the new Czar, whose policy has been and is to relieve his country from police oppression as. far as he considers it safe. The idea that the Russian autocrat has dared to extend his autocracy into our domain seems absurd and „impertinent. That he has done so is susceptible of-proof. The mission of these Russian spies in this country is supposed to be to look after the plans of Nihilistic emigrants to our shores, of whom there seems to be large numbers. With every influx of this class of emigrants it is now known there has come a squad of secret police. The other objects kept in view bv these emissaries cannot be definitely stated, but they probably go upon the theory that all knowledge is use-ful,-and send in their reports accordingly. It is not especially creditable to our sagacity that .these spies are permitted to go unchallenged, while known to the authorities. Their attitude and intentions should be clearly stated and understood by our officials.

Tcxnr, Siftings. A -man by the name of Seabold was riding in a street car. An acquaintance said tohim: -“Why, Seabold, how are you? I am sorry for you, Seabold. Since you got a divorce from your*wife I declare I Ld awake nights—" .1 ust at this juncture Seabold broke from the car and retreated. Two years afterward Seabold met tho same person on the street. “Howdy! howdy!” exclaimed the inquirer of two years. “As I was saying, I was sorry about yonr divorce troubles. I would fike to suggest—” But as Seabold had fled there were no more Suggestions io make.