Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1899 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PULSE of the PRESS

All Eyes on France. Count Bony Castellane ought to have been sent to the junkshop.—CommercialAppeal. The gentlewomen of Paris are deriving no little enjoyment from their 5 o’clock riots. —Detroit Free Press. The library of the future Captain Dreyfus will perhaps contain a complete set of Zola’s works. —Indianapolis Journal. In clearing Dreyfus’ good name that of France will also receive a scrubbing which was sorely needed.—New York Press. The Frenchman cannot mildly approve or gently abominate; he either frantically adores or recoils with horror. —Little Falls Transcript. France makes what she calls history these days entirely too rapidly for anything but a kinetoscope to register its successive rounds.—Minneapolis Times. M. Lou bet entered office when the honor 6f France was at a low ebb. If he keeps on in his present way he will leave it completely re-established.—New York Tribune. Base Hits Baseball is a noble game only when your nine wins.—Chester Clarion. Every lover of baseball believes he was once a mighty good player.—Atchison Globe. No, Maude, dear, it doesn’t take twenty runs to make a baseball score.—Philadelphia Record. It is about time for the Brooklyn baseball team to lose a game, just to vary the monotony of things.—Brooklyn Times. Since the baseball season opened quite a number of people have forgotten all about the wot in the Philippines.—Louisville Post. Baseball will strike the Philippines pretty soon and you’ll hear of the Tagalos Luzon to the Visayans.—Philadelphia Record. What a fine base runner Aguinaldo will make when the national game is acclimated in the Philippines.—Memphis Com-mercial-Appeal. Perhaps as a general rule among younger men, those most wildly anxious to get home are the’ baseball players on third.— Philadelphia Times. Freshmen and Seniors. Harvard’s greatest need now is the endowment of a chair of baseball.—Boston Herald. The colleges will soon turn out another big batch of lawyers. Have we not enough already?—Springfield Union. The Des Moines News has an article on “Does a College Education Pay?” We don’t know, but we do know some college graduates who don’t—Washington Democrat. Brown —You can always tell a young man who is just out of college. Jones— That’s just where you are wrong. You can’t tell him anything.—Ohio State Journal. If every collegian were compelled to cultivate a bed of lettuce once or twice a week, instead of spending all his energies’ in the brutal rush of football, he would be the better for it.—Florida Times-Union. We should lend our efforts toward increasing the number of college graduates, rather than to make sport of them in that blissful hour to which they will ever look back with pleasure and encouragement.— St. Joseph Herald. How They Died. His pet rabbit bit a Georgia boy and he died in great agony. An English undertaker fell dead at a funeral he was conducting. A roll-top desk crushed a Brooklyn man’s finger and paralysis resulted. A Baltimore boy drank a bottle of cough medicine in a gulp and died within an hour. A Colorado woman fell through a skylight on a job printing press and was killed by the glass. While cursing his daughter for marrying against his wishes, a Texas man was stricken with death. One of his plow horses gave a Pennsylvania farmer such a vicious kick that he died almost instantly. In trying on her brother’s clothes a Montana woman pulled the Decktie too tight and was strangled. Having fallen and, hurt her knee an English girl used a postage stamp as a plaster and blood poisoning followed. While walking on his stilts a Missouri boy fell. One of the stilts pierced his side just below his heart and he died the next day. Talk About the Weather. Old Sol seems to be starting in to do a rec. hot June business. —St. Paul Globe. Straw-hat weather came finally and of a quality to leave no doubt as to its genuineness.—Pittsburg Times. The return of warm weather will start straw hats off again—if they aren’t tied on.—Boston Journal. This is the time when all the members of the Fat Men’s dubs, would like to resign.—Danville Commercial. Saturday and Sunday in Chicago were highly favorable to the advertising of Havana as a summer resort. —Detroit Free Press. Is that weather prophet who in the hottest of the hot weather of the last few days predicted snow inside of a week a pessimist or an optimist?—New York Press. A great many young men are working hard six days of the week and Saturday nights now to buy a golf suit and a roundtrip ticket’ to some place where they can wear it a short time during the summer. —Pittsburg Times. Man of the Hour. Say, really now, wouldn’t you like to be the iceman?—Philadelphia Record. A good way to catch cold is to run after the iceman.—Berlin (Md.) Herald. The iceman runs his business mostly on the block system.—Philadelphia Bulletin. It is cold cash that a man must lay down for his ice bill.—New Orleans Picayune. The coolest thing in the way of trusts is a combination which takes in all the ice business in twelve States.—Clinto» Age.