Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1904 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PULSE of the PRESS

These are tlie days when nil the littkl rivulets obtain recognition.—Pittsburg Press. The grand jury is forging to the front as tlie nation’s paramount institution.— Milwaukee Daily News. Flour is going so high that paste diamonds may soon be worth more than ths real.—Cincinnati Times-Star. There is one ambition left to the billionaire, and that hr to be able to trim his clothes with radium. Dispatch.

. It seems now that Congress and th« postal department both live in glass houses and both throw stones. —Atlanta Journal. The purification of St. Louis politics hi not only an iridescent dream, but a horribly fictitious nightmare-—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. J. I). Rockefeller says that golf has mude hint feel twenty years younger. Promising for Chicago University.—St. Louis Republic. It is now generally believed that next to Ohio. Satsuma, Japan, is tlie greatest breeder of great men on earth. —Cincinnati Ti»ncs-Star. Proof renders with a working knowledge of the Russinn language should command high salaries from now on. —■ Boston Transcript. A Baltimore young man claims to be able to talk 65,040 words an hour. His political debut cannot be long postponed, —Washington Post. The Democracy is taking so much time in developing a candidate that he ought to be a fine specimen when he materializes.—Washington Star. Tlie New England undertaker who advertises himself as a “mortician” is trying to put the English language underground, too. —Philadelphia Ledger. European editors continue to sneer at the Monroe doctrine, and European governments continue to treat it with the utmost respect.—Kansas City Journal. The rise in the price of camphor balls is regrettable, of course, but the high ball remains serenely perched on the usual price.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.

A Harvard professor declares that football is breaking up study. Heretofore it lias been content to break up and mutilate students. —Washington Post. The man in Cleveland, Ohio, who has been eating match heads would be in a sad fix if they should obey the tendency of the times, and strike!—St. Louis World. What next after a great financier proceeds in court against his wife’s brother for alienating his wife's affections? This ought to approximate the limit.—Boston Ilernld. Secretary Taft says it will be many years before the Filipinos wiil be fit for self-government. Sometimes we might envy the Filipinos.-—St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. Bunau-Varilla says the building of the canal will take seven years; but Uncle Sam and Joan Crapaud are somewhat different when it comes to doing business. —Washington Times.

The “N'iederoesterreichische Gewerbeverein” of Austria is coming to the world’s fair. The information bureau will have a special clerk during the visit. ■—St. Louis Republic. Alia! now we know why Uncle Andy Carriegie lias been so eager to give away liis money. It has been discovered that all money has bacillus staphylococcus on it.—Augusta Chronicle. Korea has recognized Panama, but it is greatly feared that Panama will be unable to recognize Korea after the warring powers retire from her territory.— Cleveland Plain Deajgr. A Swiss gentleman says that he has an electrical instrument that could kill off an army at ode shock. The man must he an opponent of the pension system.—Topeka State Journal. The reduction of half a cent a gallon in the price of refined oils must be a great blow to the hopes of President Harper to make it really a “great university.”—lndianapolis News. It is stated that prominent women in New York have formed a guild for solving the servant girl problem. But the servant girl is not a problem, she is u riddle. —Philadelphia Evening Item. Poor old New Jersey! Its trust mill ground out such small grist last year that the taxpayers may be called upon to go down into their pockets and pay the expense of State government. That's distressing.—Milwaukee Daily News.