Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1903 — ITEMS HERE AND THERE [ARTICLE]

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A 1 monster steer is being fed dowm at Greentown, this state, for exhibition at the World’s Fair. / i It is owned jointly by eight young men, and has been named “Indiana King.” The anima| is four years old, stands six feet six inohes high, and from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail measures eighteen feet four inohes. Its present weight is 2,860 pounds, which they hope to inorease to two tons by Fair time. / A colored woman was before the court for severly beating her boy The judge; an aristooratio old fellow who wls inclined to be a little groutchy, reprimanded heir for I snob severe treatment of her son I saying it was brutal and extreme. “t|ay judge,’* said tbe old lady, “was you ever de fader of % mean, shukin’ black bey?” After the judge bad recovered from the partial paralysis following this question he hastily disavowed any proprietorship of the kind, and tbe old mama indignantly continued, “den you can’t advise me, kaße you’ve had no ’sperince.” James Braxton, oolored, who has just oompleted a three-year term in the prison in Miohigan City for a theft committed in Vigo oounty, was released from prison Wednesday and as he stepped, through the prison gate he was confronted by an officer from the prison at Joliet, 111., who rearrested tbe oolored man and took him back f to that institution to serve out the bala oe of a sentence received for burglary. Braxton was released from the Joliet prison in April, 1900, on a parole Some weeks later he violated his parole and came to Indiana where he committed a theft.

The Winamao Republican says the editor thereof and his wife were at Chicago last Saturday and heard Adeline Patti sing in thp latest of her innumerable “farewell” concerts, in that oity. He says Patti is 60 years but looks not more than 35. The striking feature of her singing is the sweetness of her voice and the simplicity of it all. There is nothing brilli-ant-nothing seemingly extraordinary nor remarkable about this singer, and yet the beet oritios in the musioal world deolare her unsurpassed as a singer. Patti appeared but two times on the program' of ten numbers, and the other eight numbers were a decided bore to many in the audience.

Rev. Joseph Vanoe or Chioago in a recent sermon pat into strong words what a great many people have been thinking for a long time. He said: “There is no difference in principle in holding np a nation for $1,000,000 at the month of a pipe line and holding np an individual at the muzzle of a gun for what he has on bik person. The man who is looked on as the moat successful man in this country, is in the last analysis, a gambler or highway robber. He is not even a creator of money, mnoh less of manhood, but a highway bandit who has held np jprodadera and public for millions. The hero of boys used to be Napoleon. We have made little progress in Chriatianty when the hero of the boys of today is John D. Rookefe Her o J. Pierpont Morgan.”