Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1904 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PULSE of the PRESS

The prices of the new winter hats almost make them deserve the name of millionery.—Ohio State Journal. No more fights now for John L. Sullivan. He has disabled his right arm signing temperance pledges. —New York Mail. Another New York woman has lost a $100,600 necklace. They all seem to have* them to losp down there.—Chicago Record-Hera id. Business in Wall street is picking up. That is, part of the participants are picking up what the others are dropping.—Chicago News. It looks as if the final charge against the officers of the Baltic fleet would be tin* familiar one, “drunk and disorderly.”—New York Evening Sun. We know an excellent old lady who is a good mother, womanly and deserving in every way. But she lies ten years about her age.—Atchison Globe. Germany is spending $40,000,000 to put down an insurrection in German Southwest Africa. And still Emperor William covets more colonies! —Kansas City Star. - —— ' »-1— Somebody defines a true- American as one who works his way up from the bottom. This would appear to bar the late George Washington.—'Cleveland Plain Dealer.

It is difficult to imagine the extent of the disaster which would ensue if one-half of the Russian navy should unexpectedly meet the other half on a dark night.—New York Sun. Russia is very sensitive about her prestige, hut there is nothing that will send it zeroward faster than a panicky fleet on the high seas, with all the world watching.—Boston Transcript. There are some very economical people in North Carolina. The Kinston Free Press tells of a man who has been wearing the same shirt for twenty years.—Raleigh News and Observer. The dispatches tell us that a man with a beard a yard long was hung in Indiana the other day. Then men with - beards a yard long should get shaved. No use to run any unnecessary risks. — Raleigh (N. C.) Post. “Has the cost of living increased?” is a question that stares one in the face from many different directions, but it is not half so Important to a lot of people as “Is the hired girl satisfied?”—Syracuse Herald. The terrible slaughter of soldiers in Manchuria is causing a revolt against war among all civilized people. The telegraphic accounts, far short of realistic description, are enough to dismay readers.—Louisville Herald. Reformists are hunting a “cure” for divorces. We know of no cure, but a good preventive might be discovered in raising boys and girls with less tamper, higher ideals and aspirations that look beyond having “a good time.”— Wilmington (N .C.) Star. Regardless of the loudest canon of bishops or laymen, the New York divorce mill turns faster and faster. One judge's grist in three days was fiftysix cases. But one trouble in New York is it’s so easy to get married in haste. —Boston Transcript. And now comes the edict that bowlegged men must be barred from the navy. If this harsh rule had been enforced in "the rare old, fair old, golden days” many of the names that have made us famous tvould be missing from our roll of nautical heroes. —New York Herald. Out in South Dakota the farmers are selling their best beef to the Beef Trust for 2 cents a pound—a record low price. In New York the trust has so fixed prices that you must pay from 20 to 27 cents for yonr beef. Beef was never lower when the farmer has it to sell, and never higher to the man who pays the retail butcher bill.—New York American.