Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1905 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PULSE of the PRESS

The Czar probably regretsnow that he did not carry out any of liis plans for going to the front with the arm yT —Washington Post. Russia's third fleet should take along the guns'from the Bourse Esplanade, so that the people at home would be safe.—Montreal Star. The man-fn-a-hurry at the railroad crossing, who crawls under a moving train, reaches the Other Side, all right.—Newport News Press. In view of his public spirit in owning up to $5,000,000, perhaps one of the Carnegie hero medals ought to go to Air. Carnegie —New York Mail. It is said the late Governor Lowndes, of Maryland, never used an oath. And yet lie was an unusually successful politician.—Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. Bread 2,000 years old Ims been discovered in the ruins of Pompeii. That must be where some of our American restaurants get their supply.—Atlanta Journal. It may be well for the Russian authorities to court-martial Sloessel, but it would be better for Stoessel to courtmartial the authorities.—Toronto Mail and Empire. If Cassie gets out on bail there is no hope for the remaining Ohio bankers, uulcss they get in their safes and pull the doors shut after them. —Birmingham Age-HeraUl. A diamond worth $4.(X»0,000 has been found near Pretoria. This beats all records. But wait until it is lost by a popular actress or a Wall street broker.—Chicago Inter Ocean. It might be well to force every automobile to carry a crew consisting of a licensed chauffeur, conductor, brakoman, flagman, doctor and claim agent.—lndianapolis Star. It is stated that practically every man, woman and child in Japan smokes cigarettes. The Japanese don’t tight like a people addicted to hitting the pipe —Newport News Press: A Chicago man with sixteen children complains that lie is not able to sendjfix of them to school. He might get a blackboard and start a school of his own.—Birmingham Age-Herald. A woman reformer declares that ’’the bachelor is an evil.” It is woman's business to eradicate evils like that, and they are the only ones that can do it. —Wilmington (N. C.) Star. The Cuban Senate lias appropriated $300,000 to clean lift tlig island. If the officeholders down there do not clean up the appropriation, Cuba may yet get a good hath.—Atlanta Journal. Some of the kind Russian manufacturers have offered to advance their help's wages to $lO a month. Is it quite safe to enrich the uneducated classes so suddenly?—-Ohio State Journal. -• A London policeman lias been discharged for stealing milk front doorsteps on his* beat and drinking it. Still, why sacrifice a policeman with that iml of a thirst?—Milwaukee SentLne..

American farm products were worth approximately $5,000,000,000 last year. This is why panics may come and panics may go on Wall street, but the country goes on forever. —Atlanta Constitution. Boat rocker* can have almost as much fun in winter by conducting slmiing parties over thin ice and steering bobsleds down bills crossed by railroad tracks. —Columbus (O.) State Journal. The Herman Emperor bas intervened to settle the coal strike in his imperial domain, perhaps being fully cognizant of the fact that his act is not an original one. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Japanese are still a simple, primitive people. They have not as yet acquired the habit of throwing mud at their heroes when the latter attempt to return home.—r Chicago Rec-ord-Herald. Tom Lawson says, and comes very near to proving, that the trust is the money power's “magic jimmy” for breaking into the strongholds where tin* people's savings are * stored.— Charleston (S. C.) Post. There arc no skyscrapers in Berlin. No house erected in that city is allowed to he over seventy-three feet in height. This rule is to preserve ”the architectural unity and beauty of the city."—Nashville Banner. The thieves that made away with the jewels of some of those in attendance at Chicago's charity ball belong to that'school of charity which teaches that “tlie Lord helps those that help themselves.”—lndianapolis Star. A brave man, a ruler of truly royal mold, would have asked no greater opportunity in lift* than to have stepped out among his aggrieved people upon the palace square and met them face to face, in kindness and in trust. — Columbia (8. C.j State. Before the investigation of the Colorado election frauds is ended it will probably be discovered that some of tin* women voted ballots with esealloped edges, or medallions opposite tin* names.—St. Ixmis (Hope-Democrat. A Daviess County school teacher, who used to let .his boys bri)g their dogs to school with them, had to order the canines left at home last week, j Dog fights were taking up about half the daily session.—Kansas City JourI Ml.