Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — WASHIGTON COSSIP [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WASHIGTON COSSIP

W. R. Smith, superintendent of the Botanic gardens in Washington, has held the place for forty-fhree years. The Secretary of the Navy has appointed Herbert Howard, of Port Huron, Mich., a cadet at the naval academy. Senator Gear, of lowa, with hia health in part restored after a desperate fight for life, will return home in a few days. Prof. J. T. Rothrock is authority for the statement that 15,000,000 acres of land in Pennsylvania were sold for non-pay-ment of taxes last year. Gen. Stanton, paymaster general of tho army, has received from Fort Washakie, Wyo., a, magnificent war bonnet made by the Shoshone Indians. Private Secretary Thurber says tho statement that the President is writing a book on economic science, or ou any other subject, is absolutely untrue 1 ? The reclassification of employes of the customs service has been completed and the rules for carrying into effect all the changes made will be promulgated at once. The six new gunboats for which plans have recently been approved by the Secretary of the Navy will be known by numbers until they are named by the Sec-, rotary. The action ofc the Pension Bureau in conetruing the legal meaning of “dependence" under the net of June 27, 1890, has been reversed by Assistant Secretary , of the Interior Reynolds, who says that by “adequate means of support” the law means a comfortable maintenance during the remainder of life. Secretary of State Gresham continue* ♦o improve He takes food in sufficient quantities, secures considerable sleep, and the pleuritic attack, while still the source of some constant pain, is running its course naturally and satisfaclorily. Secretary Carlisle has directed the Federal authorities at Tampa, Fla., to communicate to the £Wte quarantine authorities hia opinion that the Uulted States laws do not warrant tiie detention of tho Spanish cruiser Infanta Isabella on a reported violation of the Federal q»*tontine laws.