Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1875 — Close of a Heroic Career. [ARTICLE]

Close of a Heroic Career.

A noble and heroic career is just closed. It is well known that for nearly ten years the life of Prof. Cairns has been one of acute pain and amounting sometimes to anguish. Month after month and year after year the disease which has at last proved fatal has tightened its cruel grasp upon him, gradually depriving him of all power of movement, so that at length he was unable even to turn the pages of a book. The disease (rheumatic arthritis) to which he has at last succumbed attacked him in 1866, and since that time it has steadily become more and more severe and painful; it necessitated the gradual relinquishment ofhis public appointments as professor of political economy at Queen’s College, Galway, and at University College, London. It compelled him to give up, one after another, the relaxations of social intercourse and debarred him from every mitigation of his sufferings w-hich an invalid can generally get from change of scene and occupation. It fixed every joint and limb with an iron rigidity, rendering him entirely dependent on the loving ministratiops of those surrounding him. Bound by the pitiless chains of his terrible malady ten years he has scarcely passed an idle day. The greatest original contribution which he made to political economy is no doubt the new theory of cost, of production, which he first propounded in the “ Leading Principles.” This theory, which disputes the analysis of cost previously accepted by economists of the English school, ana brings into harmony the doctrines of foreign and domestic values, is destined as we believe to a place among the greatest discoveries in economic science which have been made during this century.— London Examiner. A Mai»b paper says that there isn’t a man in Portland who wouldn’t tell a deliberate lie for three cents. Three cents? Three cents? Well, money is a great temptation.— Detroit Free Frees.