Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — Current Condensations. [ARTICLE]

Current Condensations.

The Court of Appeals of New York has held iliat it was no ground for a new trial hecliuse jury in a murder case attended church on Sunday in custody of the Sheriff and heard a sermon on the prevalence of crime. Hobo is a common word among the Sioux or Dakota Indians. They use the word iu referring to young men who have nothing to do. An old chieS will correct, a sou for any such tendencies by saying: "You act like a hobo.” A French princess has placed a considerable sum at the disposal of the superior of the School of Sisters of St. Joseph in Athens to found a home in the island of Santorin for the children of Greek officers killed in the late war. The London Lancet says in an elaborate artLc’.e that there is an absolute pathological identity in the symptoms of alcoholism and the condition of one madly In love. In both cases, that high medical authority remarks, separation is a cure.

An order lias been issued by the India Government that no rifles sighted beyond 300 yards are to be shipped to India, and that rifles sighted above the maximum allowed will bo confiscated. This order has caused some consternation among Birmingham gunmakers. The Philadelphia school authorities tested the pile of coal delivered at one cf the schoolhouscs and found it thirteen tons short of the amount paid for. A similar shortage is reported at all the police stations ami is believed to exist at all the public schools in the city. M. Louis Geuarl, a lawyer of Nice, made au excursion toward the Italian frontier, near Broil, taking a camera with him. As nothing was heard of him inquiries were made and it has been ascertained that M. Genari was arrested by Italian carabineers, charged with being a spy. He is imprisoned at Genoa. Samuel Henry, an old colored man of Wilmington, Del., while iiuluig'ng in a hearty fit ol’ laughter over a story tohl him by a friend, dislocated bis jaw. Surgeon Hughes of tho police station fixed it up for him, and lie was so tickled over having it fixed that lie broke out in another hearty laugh and It was thrown out again. The surgeon fixed him up again and dismissed him. The managers are putting third-class dining cars ou some of the English railroads.