Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1895 — The Inventor Got 50 Cents. [ARTICLE]

The Inventor Got 50 Cents.

“The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.” generously responding to the call for aid from the famine-stricken regions of the West with great train loads of grain and supplies, is something of an eye-opener to Northern people. Evidently the South has otherasKC-openers in stock. A large porkqwcking establishment is to be built at Valdosta, Ga., and the farmers of that region will abandon cotton and turn their attention to hogs and corn. Db. Talmage, in his recent sermon on the Taj Maha', “got even” with all the inefficient janitors that he has encountered in his many years of ex: perience as a public speaker. The good Doctor, may be said to have “done them up” nicely. The sculptured doorkeepers at the temple on the island of Elepbanta are repr’e- . Rented as leaning on sculptured devils and the preacher traced the deadly parallel in a very effective way. ___________ We have actually epicures in the United States who have acquired an appetito for European s nail s. —Large - quantities are? annually shipped to our shores. Frdm France alone the shipments last year amounted to 220,460 pounds. They ought to be delicious for they cost $4.82 per thousand. These food snails are probably different from our garden mollusks, but ham is good enough for us. ~ ’ Recent surveys have derrjonstrated that the “Grand Teton” peakin Wyoming is the highest elevation in the United States outside of Alaska. It is 15,446 feet high, being 1,229 feet higher than Pike’s Peak, and 982 feet higher than the j loftiest mountain in Colorado. The ’ Teton range is in Western Wyoming, and there is an extent of unexplored territory in the region that may yet furnish some grpat surprises to the world. The average reader could not give any approximately correct estimate of the area of Indiana, and the exact! figures have until recently been a j matter of dispute even with those! who should be posted on such mat- | ters. The census of 1880 made a careful computation, which is sup-; posed to bccorrect, giving the gross ' area as 36,350 square miles, of which l 330 square miles are lakes and ponds. People with a fondness for statistics! might preserve this for future refer- : .. enee. -——-—~~ ■ -——a The new editor of Harper’s Week;' ly, Mr. Henry Loomis Nelson, is. vouched for by a well-known news- ■ paper man, as being a thorough gen- ' tieman at all times and under all I circumstances. He is courtesy in--1 carnate. it is said, and this trait is so directly in contrast with the deportment of a majority of newspaper men of influence and prominence in the metropolis that it is deemed worthy of especial mention and recognition. Mr. Nelson is very - popular with the editorial profession ' in New York. The New York State capital building at Albany has been in process of construction for twenty-seven years, and it is still unfinished. It hasl been a football for politicians and i the spoils that have been abstracted from profitable contracts would probably make very interesting reading could the whole truth be exposed. Twenty million dollars have been expended upon the struc- ' ture and more is demanded. The cost of maintainance is now about $65,000 a year. The original act for the building of the capital provided that it should not cost more than $4,000,000 when completed. 1 Still, New York is a great State and the money spent has produced a building worthy of the great commonwealth. The great Siberian railway is progressing rapidly. Construction on the eastern end from Vladivostock westward is being pushed vigorously and the line is now open for traffic for a distance of 286 miles into the interior from that Pacific port. Work en the western end is also being carried forward even more energetically, and the final completion 'of the longest railway line in the world can not be delayed for any great length of time. It is regarded as an anomolous condition in international affairs that England does not object to the encroachments of Russia in the East, and diplomates can only explain it on the theory that the royal families are now so closely related

that/what at one time would-have provoked a war between these great nations, is simslyregarded a» a matter of common interest—a tamily affair, so to speak. They are teliing a new, and, as Mrs. Partington would say, “incredulous” yarn about the wonders o' California. —A —man out tbaT way raised 1,000 bushels of popcorn. The market being cluH and the pricc low. lie stored the crop in his barn. The barn took fire and burned down. The popcorn began to pop at the be-* ginning of the conflagration and con- • tinned to fly into the air, coming i down till-it covered an adjoining , field to a considerable depth with a i white blanket, so to speak. -An old ! mare in the field.thought it was Snow, I i and lay down and was frozen tc ; death. The story is a “good one”— i of the kind. The public sentiment in favor o! forest preservation and extension is growing. Notable evidence of this was the recent reference bv'Gov. I i Matthews to the subject‘ in his annual New York State has already taken important steps in this direction. The State now owns a forest reservation of 3,000,000 acres. They are neither sold, leased op rented. No man or association of men is given or permitted tp have! any special privileges or rights in this domain. They are a standing benefit held in reserve for the People, and this primitive paradise cannot be taken away or in any way impaired, except by constitutional amendment--a most unlikely event. Indiana could have been equally well provided for had our people and legislators in early days not been so short-sighted and greedy. Much may yet be done to remedy the evil brought upon us by their folly. All that rs neededis a public sentiment strong enough tomstit utemeasures of reform. Four of the great battlefields of the war will be turned into national parks. They are Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Antietam and Shiloh. Gettysburg, of course, has for some years been known as a military park. The others have also from time to time received Congressional aid and recognition. One of the first acts of the present session of the House was to appropriate $75,000 for the Shiloh military park, and a few days later $20,000 was appropriated for the dedication of the Chickamauga park next September, These fields willform a remarkable series of memorials for future generations. All four were battles which the. survivors on both sides can look upon with mingled feelings of pride and sorrow. It is not surprising that Congressmen from both North and South have given these measures tq preserve the landmarks of those famous struggles their hearty support and co-operation. For once partisan zqal has been lost sight of and patriotism (for rebels were patriotic on the wrong side) rises supreme.

Philadelphia Inquirer. In a quaint old house at No 609 Marshall street lives Frank O. Deschamps, who, although over 70 years old. has been inventing things all his life. Mr. Deschamps is asactive as a boy of 20, lives all alone amidst his models and contrivances, cooks his pwn meals, acts as his own housekeeper, and is as happy as the day is long. Mr. Deschamp’s first invention of note was the artificial leg. It was over fifty years ago when Mr. Deschamps, then an apprentice, was asked by his master to see what he could do for foppish Frenchman who had lost a leg. At that time only wooden pegs were known, and the Frenchman was dissatisfied with this by no means elegant substitute. In two days young Deschamps had finished a complete model of an artificial leg, with every movement of the natural limb duplicated. His master had it patented, and it yielded him a fortune. “Igot 50c out of it," laughingly remarked Deschamps. “The Frenchman gave me that and told me to go over to Smith's Island and enjoy myself. And I thought I was in great luck at that.” A novel “Cherokee Strip” romance was ended by the marriage the other day of Albert Jones and Miss Clara L. George, qt Arkansas City, Kas. Both Mr. Jones and Miss George claimed the same piece of land, and were prepared to fight for it until doomsday, when Jones fell ill. Miss George, woman-like, went over to his cabin to look him up and stayed to nurse him back to health. By this time they had decided to divide the claim between them, but it was not long before they solved the problem in a better way and resorted to mat-' rimony instead of the land office. At one time a iron pole with an iron collar at the end armed with iron spikes on the inside was used for catchingttod holding prisoners. Four hundred elk in one band were seen crossing into the Yam pah country (Col.) from the Black mountains the other day, the deep snow ia the hills having "driven them out.