Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1904 — Page 4

TiejtepiiblioM, °" ,c *^¥* r >•* ***** iMunpirnniT tcbsday aKJnSbx r ”»t '** GEORGE F. MARSHAL L EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. •o* In Republican building en the oorm WMllugton and Weston Streets. reran of SubMriptioa. Oil® Y®M •. . ■ >• ■ « trfc ~ . $1.50 Six Months 75 Thrse Months .60

OFFICIAL COUNTY PLURALITIES

Roosevelt .; ju. . .855 Hanley 763 Ornmpaoker 625 McCain. .543 Wilson 613 Nichols 270 O’Cjnner ••••.. 354 Tilton 486 Wright 535 Price 586 Lewis 510 Waymire 466 Denham 496

DEATH RATE LOWER.

The public health in Indiana daring the month of September was abave the average. Daring the month 2,653 deaths were reported, or e rate of 12.2. Tlfe rate in the proceeding month was 13.2 and for September of last year the death rate was 13.4. The monthly bulletin issued by the State Board of Health for September of this year, shows thtt pulmonary tuberculosis was the cause of 287 deaths in the month; other foi ms of tuberculosis, 33; tyhoid fever, 137; diarrhoeal disease, 319; oanoer, 115; and violeuoe. 149. The Southern part of Indi. ana showed the lowest death rate in the statep end the oentral part the highest rate for oonsumption'was in The southern part, however, the rate there being 154.8 per 100,006. The lowest death rates in Indiana were in the counties of Wells and Lagrange, where the rate was only 5.5. In all oitfea with a total population of 922,371, the rate was 15 7 The oonntry with a population of 1,734,032, reported a rate of 10 3. Commenting on the] deaths from tuberculosis, the report says that deaths from that disease made 136 orphans under twelve years of age. The total number of orphans due to consumption was 174, and death entered 200 homes. This is slightly lower in number than for August of this year.

FARM AND CITY LOANS.

Money to loan on farms at 5 per oent interest. A speoial fund to loan on dwellings and business property. Also money to loan on personal seourity second mortgage and ohattle mortgage. Money on hand no delay oall and see me before making a new loan or renewing your old loan. Commission reduoed one half. Jambs H. Chapman, Rensselaer, Ind

The Place For Millinery.

Mrs. Puroupilea is the plaoe to Set the lateet styles in millinery. ter trimmer Miss Snyder is a designer, notice our window no two hats alike, yon will not meet the exaot copy of your hat on the street Come, and examine onr '£lne before purchasing, if yon do not wish to boy nntil later, oome in, it is no trouble to show goods, dwlw

MOROCCO VS RENSSELAER NEXT MONDAY.

There will be a game of football for yonr whiskers here next Monday. Moroooo, the team whioh skinned Brook so badly, and has not been beaten this season, is ooming over to play with the Rensselaer town team, inolnding as many of the "Old Bnnoh” as oan be bonohed op. The game will be oalled at 2:80 and admission 25 and 15 oents.

HISTORY OF THE ANCHOR.

.. Varteaa Jlkat Hmc . . v «. Amu' Made .lie lt» Shape.. - Tte?g|4ig»’.anchors in general of the last orntury ' shaft, straight arms or flukes, inclined to the shank at an angle of about 40 degrees and meeting it in a somewhat sharp point at the crown. In large anchors the bulky wooden stock was built up of several pieces, hooped together, the whole tapering outward to the ends, especially on the aft or cable side. About the beginning of tlie last century a clerk in the Plymouth naval yard, Pering by name, suggested certain improvements, the most important of which was making the arms curved instead of straight At first sight this simple change may seem of little value, but consideration will show that this is not the case. The bolding power of an anchor depends on two principal conditions—namely, the extent off useful holding surface and the amount of vertical penetration. The latter quality is necessary on account of the na* ture of ordinary sea bottoms, the surface layers of which are generally less tenacious and resisting than is the ground a short distance below. In the yei||. 1831 chain cables began to supersede the hempen ones, with the result that the long shanked anchors hitherto in vogue were no longer necessary, and anchors with shorter shanks and with heavier and stronger crowns gradually came into use. In consequence of these changes a cfom-i mission wns appointed In the year 1838 to Inquire into the holding power of anchors, and a principal result of its labors was the adoption of the so called admiralty pattern anchor, which continued to be used in the navy up to the year 1860. The invention of the steam hammer in 1842 made the welding of heavy masses of iron a comparatively easy and reliable process, so that from this time onward the strength of anchors fully kept pace with that of the chain cables which had come into general use. A number of patents for anchors were taken out prior to the great exhibition of 1851, and, public attention having been called to the models there shown, in the following year a committee was appointed by the admiralty to report on the qualifications of anchors of the various kinds. Practical trials then instituted, and as a result Trotman’s anchor took the highest place, Rodger’s anchor being second on the list. Some of the tests to which the anchors were submitted, »'were of doubtful value, such, for instance, as “facility for sweeping.” Nowadays, however, at all events for deep ships in shallow harbors, it is considered an advantage for an anchor to offer as little obstruction as possible above the ground.—Science Siftings.

Cause For Rejoicing.

Judge Shaw in his latter days was reverenced by the people of Massachusetts as If he were a demigod, but in his native county of Barnstable he was reverenced as a god. One winter when the supreme court held a special session at Barnstable for the trial of a capital case Judge Merrick, who was one of the judges, came out of the courthouse just at nightfall, when the whole surface of the earth was covered with ice and slush, slipped and fell heavily, breaking three of his ribs. He was taken up and carried to his room at the hotel and lay on a sofa waiting for the doctor to come. While the Judge lay groaning and in agony the old janitor of the courthouse, who had helped pick him up, wiped off the wet from his clothes and said to him, “Judge Merrick, how thankful you must be it was not the chief justice!” Poor Merrick could not help laughing, though his broken ribs were lacerating his flesh.—George F. Hoar in Scribner’s.

FiJi Hairdressing.

No one has visited Fiji in the past without being astonished at the fearful and wonderful styles of hairdressing. They are geometrical, monumental, pyramidal and trapezoidal. An additional factor in this production of the grotesque is that the hair varies in color as lime varies in bleaching power or as the juice of the mangrove in coloring matter. Between black and white the colors run through the blue black and all the shades of red and yellow. Often half the hair Is red and the other half white, giving a kind of piebald effect.

It Depends.

Floorwalker—Vases? Yes, ma’am. Right up this aisle. Bargains from 25 cents up. Next Shopper—You have a display of vawses today? Same Floorwalker—Vawses? Yes, madam. Down the next aisle, please. Bargains from $25 up.—Exchange.

He Needed Encouragement.

“Do you try to be contented poverty, my man?” asked the/ rtcto donoiv., y “I’m afraid not," the hard up delinquent, try me with how contented I’d be.”— Chicago Record-Herald.

Basis. “But, after all, is not good digestion the basis of beauty?" “Aye, what else may change the grub into the butterfly?” exclaimed Beatrice, attacking the sirloin xestfully.—Detroit Free Tress. ■y Dswa sal Oat. Upton—Bay, isn’t that rtcbly dressed woman across the street your cook ? Suburb—No. We did make our home with her for awhile, but she discharged us last week.—Buffalo News. History repeats Itself. You cannot find the age of a woman In the Bible.

ANCIENT FISH CURES

MEDICINAL VIRTUES THAT USED TO DECK THE FINNY TRIBE.

I*ercl» Wu Vaivel la Germany For l*» Curative Properties, and Carp Waa Held In High K.teeui In Old Kaglaat-The Physician of Fishes, Fishing literature prior to the days and writings of Izaak Walton opens up points of interest which are unique. Not the least interesting are the constant references of the early writers to the medicinal virtues of fish. Of course many of the salt andjfresb water fishes mentioned by the old writers are not recognized in the waters of today, but the fresh water perch, earp r tench and eel are yet recognized, and it Is in connection with these fish that some of the quaintest ideas as to their medicinal virtues have prevailed. The Germans have a comparative proverb which says, “More wholesome than a perch of the Rhine;” and it is certain that from the earliest times this familiar fish has been esteemed as one of the best gastronomic productions of fresh waiter. It has also been ascribed medicinal virtues. Gesner says that physicians value the perch so much that they recommend it to be freely eaten by wounded men, women in childbed and those suffering from dangerous fevers. Aldrovandus praises it and mentions that the two otooliths (“round bones”) found in the head of the perch are marvelously good for stone in the bladder.

That the carp was esteemed in olden times in England is certain. Dame Berners, writing in her quaint “Treatysee of Eysshynge Wyth an Angle,” published in 1490, says, “The carpe be a deyntous fish, but there ben few in Englonge.” Being “deyntous”—!. e., “dainty”—it must have been a good fish at that time to eat. It has certainly lost its character since then. In the art of healing the carp plays a respectable part. One old writer speaks of the fat of the carp as being of miraculous power for the alleviation of “hot rheumatism.” The manner of its application was by frequent rubbing on the painful part, and the effect was ssfld to be eminently mollifying and salutary. The triangular bones in the throat of the carp on being ground to powder and applied to a wound or bleeding nose were said to act as styptic. The gall was also said to have been used for sore eyes, and “above the eyes,” says an old iEsculapius, “two little bones exist, semicircular in shape, which are diligently preserved by noble females against the lunatical disease.”

In the,“Haven of Health” carp are also comprised in “the ten sortes of flsche which are reckoned as principal in the preservation of health,” and, adds the quaint old writer, “this fish Is of great wholesomeness and great value, and Its tongue is very pleasant to carping ladles.” - A kind of first cousin of the carp is what is known as the barbel. Such ancients as Juvenal, Albertus and others of that ilk evidence that it was known and esteemed by the Roman gourmet. Plutarch mentions a curious fact in its natural history. Dr. Badham iu his “Prose Haleutles” translates this passage as follows: “The roe of the barbel is very poisonous. Antonio Gazlus took two boluses and thus describes his sensations: ‘At first I felt no inconvenience, but some hours having elapsed I began to be disagreeably affected, and as my stomach swelled and could not be brought down by anise and carminatives I was soon In a stated great depression and distress.’ ” It appears that his countenance was pallid, like a man In a swoon. Deadly coldness ensued, and violent cholera and vomiting came on. The barbel (Barbus vulgaris) of today has survived such poisonous qualities. Its flesh has the taste of stewed white blotting paper, and its roe is as innocuous as bread pills. All the same, good Julyana Berners shared the bad opinion of the earlier writers. She says: “The barbyll is a swete fish, but it Is quashy mete and perylous for mannys bodye. For cornynly be yuyth an introduction to ye febrls (fever), and if ye be eten rawe he may cause of mannys dethe wliych hath often beene seene.”

The tench which has been introduced into some parts of this country Is an olive greenish carp which has been for long time termed in England the “physician of fishes.” According to a score or more of authorities, ancient and modern, the thick slime with which it is covered exerts healing effect on all wounds or diseases In which it can come In contact on or In other Whence this belief jqrlgtoilted la not known, but servation is r % e ll worthy of credence. Mr. Wrjgftt in bis book on “Fishes and Ftah|*g” tells how a minnow acdden„joly’hooked in the water of an aquarium in which It was swimming, on breaking loose, immediately descended three parts of the way down the water and swiftly approached Its nose to the side of the tench which was Its companion In the aquarium. It rubbed Its nose for a few seconds against the tench and then again swam about aa lively as before. To this testimony Mr. Wright adds: “W# (my friend and I who were watching the performance) were both of the opinion that it is really no fable as to the tench being the ACsculaplus of fishes, for here was an example before onr eyes of a fish being wounded and Immediately Instinct directing It to seek a remedy.” One piscatorial truth Is known to all who fish for pike or pickerel. The pike (eeoxludua) will ravenously seize as his prey the fry of almost every fish, Including his own species, and all the bait minnows are also caviare to him, but he will not touch the tench.— Brooklyn Eagle.

THERMOMETER DEGREES.

The Seale Invented t»jr Jfewton aad AmplUel bjr Fahrenheit. Why should the freezing point be marked 32 degrees and the boiling point 212 degrees on ibe Fahrenheit thermometer scale? Most students know that its Inventor divided the space between these points into 180 degrees Instead of the simpler 100 degrees used in the Centigrade System, but few understand how this number came to be chosen. A writer thus ex- | plains the matter: The thermometer was really invented by Sir Isaac Newton. He started his scale with the heat of the human body and used as his instrument a glass tube filled with linseed oil. The lowest figure on the scale was the freezing point and the highest point boiling water. The starting point of this scale, as \ mentioned, was the heat off the human body, which he called by the round number 12, as the duodecimal system was then in common use. He divided the space between the freezing point and the temperature of the body into 12 points and stated that the boiling point of water would be about 30, as the temperature must be nearly three times that of the human body. When Fahrenheit took up the subject a few years later be used the Newton instrument, but, finding the scale not fine enough, divided each degree into two parts and so made the measure between thefreezlng and boiling points 24 parts Instead of 12. Fahrenheit then discovered that he obtain a lower degree of cold than freezing, and, taking a mixture of ice and salt for a starting point, he counted 24 points up to body heat. By this measurement he obtained 8 for the freezing point and 53 for the boiling point. His scale now read: Zero, freezing, 8; body heat, 24, and boiling water, 53. It will be noticed that this scale is identically that of Newton’s, only starting lower and having the numbers doubled. It was with this scale that Fabren* heit worked for a long time, but finally, finding the temperature divisions still too large, he divided each degree Into four parts. Multiplying the numbers just given by four the thermometer scale now in use results. The chance choice of Newton of the figure 12 to represent the body heat determined the present thermometer scale, even as the yard, foot and inch measures originally came from measures of parts of the human body, and as the width of a railroad carriage was determined by the track, which in turn was determined by the width between the cart wheels necessary to bear a load which could comfortably be drawn by a mule.—American Inventor.

What Fell Out.

“The next time my wife asks me to bring home a fashion paper,” growled the baldheaded man, “I’ll tie it up tight before I leave the office. “I’ve been married twenty years, but everybody takes me for a bachelor. That’B where the rub comes In about this fashion paper. My wife asked me to bring one home last night, and I bought the thing at a news stand on the L station. Of feoorse I didn’t look at it When I reached my station I had to walk the whole length of the car to get out, and Just before I reached the door a boy came after me, touched me on the arm and banded to me a big sheet of white paper all marked over with black lines. “‘I beg your pardon,’ he said, *but you dropped this.’ “Then everybody In the car laughed. The thing was labeled ‘Mother’s Friend,’ and It was one of those paper patterns for things to go. over corsets.”—New York Press.

Origin of the Hansom.

The hansom was the Invention of Joseph Hansom, the architect of the Birmingham town hall. But the two wheeled cab which he patented in 1834 little resembles the vehicle which now bears his name. It had a square, sedan chair shaped body hung between two wheels nearly eight feet high. The driver’s seat was In front, as also was the door. The fare entered the cab between the wheel and shaft. The modern hansom was adapted from this original by Messrs. Glllet and Chapman. It Is a peculiarly English vehicle, and no foreign nation has ever compassed the dogged courage of the Briton who can sit calmly Inside It— London Chronicle.

Her Fear.

Maud—What makes you nervous, dear? Clara—"Vyhy r Fr@4ls to have an Interpapa this afternoon. “-Oh I And you are afraid your father 'Will not give his consent?” “No; I’m afraid Fred won’t show up.”

A Mathematician.

“Father," said the little boy, “what la a mathematician Y * “A mathematician, my son, la a man who can calculate the distance between the moat remote «tan and who la liable to be fllmflammed tn changing a two dollar bllL”—Washington Star.

The Gallant Judge.

Magistrate—Next easel*'Wbo*ve we got now? Constable Joseph BVglnf, alias “Skates.” Magistrate—Ladles first'We’U hive Alice Skates take the stand.—Philadelphia Ledger.. „ .

No Short Answer From Her.

“What was that Spllllnk sald-that his wife had never given him a abort answer?” “Well, It amounted to that She declines to use postal cards In writing to him.”—Clndnnstl Commercial Tribune. N How many friends have you to whom you can truthfully say. “Yck never offended me?”—Atchison GlobJ

1 1 1 ..... i, H. O. HARRIS, E. T. HARRIS, C. H. MILLg Pres't. Vivce Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank ESTABLISHED 1889. RENSSELAER, IND. DOES A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS Interest paid on time deposits, money loaned on approved security. Drafts bought and sold on principal cities. FARIVX laOAiyrS A SPECIALTY. REBPCTFULY SOICTT rail BiSIWES The State Bank of Rensselaer Corner of Washington and Van Rensselaer Streets. = _ =pirect»rs= ~ John Eger, President. Delos Thompson, Cashie r Lucius Strong Granville Moody, Warren Robinson. Does a general banking business, Loans Money'on all kinds of approved security; buys notes , pays interest on savings; pays taxes for customers ~ and others. ! ~ i this Bank will be glad t$ Extend €wry Jmr to Itt Customers Consistent with Safe- Banking Principles. Telephone 42. .-/ CMEIf \\ " IP ! and let u» i Figure with. Sgg Vou of- P| t / That bilk Egg Glad to See You... |l| fWe will figure against Chicago or any other place on prioe or grade. We belong to no association nor com *ijr2S bination. Our prices are our own. Yours lor business gmwm&Co| DIRECTORS A. Park toon, President LL. Hollingsworth, Cashier John M. Wasson, Vice-President James T. Randle George E. M array THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK North Sldo Public Square, RENSSELAER, INDIANA. LOANS MONEY • • • on all kinds ofJgood security on City Property and on Farms'at lowest'rates, pays interest on savings, pays-taxes and makes investments for customers and others aud solicits 'personal interviews witn a view to business, promising every favor consistent with_safe banking. FARM LOANS A SPECIALTY

ELLIS’ OPERA HOUSE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12 THE BREAT EMOTIONAL DRAMA “East Lynn” Magnificent Wardrobe and Suberb Stage Settings. \ SPECIALTIES BETWEEN ACTS Reserve Seat Sale at Jessen’s Jewelry Store.