Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1910 — QUEER STORIES [ARTICLE]

QUEER STORIES

Steel needles were first made ln England ln 1545. Phonographic shorthand writing was the Invention of Pitman in 1837. The municipality of Peterborough, England, has enriched its treasury perceptibly by engaging In the celery business. White pepper comes from the same berry as black pepper. White pepper .. Is the seed only, while black pepper is the entire fruit. For the Anglo-Japanese exhiSitlon to be held in London in; 1910 Japanese imperial and provincial governments have voted f 1,600,000 for expenses. Outside the west central district postofflee ln London a postman has been stationed with a large bag to act as “letter box,” the boxes having been closed. ( The United States sells as large quantities of canned fruits to England and Germany as Frarifce does, the annual shipments from here amounting to 1500,000 to $600,000. -•'* "X - A compass-testing station, near “Berlin, is a unique adjunct to the German navy. The testing power Is subject to pitching, rotating, shaking and every motion to which a warship Is liable ln service. Refrigerated staterooms are found on three new ships engaged in the fruit service between New Orleans and Colon. Each room is fitted with a cooling “radiator” operated ln connection with the refrigerating system that has been installed for preserving fruit ln transit. Great Britain buys more goods from the United States than from any other three principal countries in the world —5620,000,000 worth In 1908; $110,000,000 more than from France, Germany and Holland combined, according to the July report of the department of trades and commerce of Canada. An air steam engine has been Invented by a professor of engineering ln one of the Western colleges of America. In this invention a cylinder is filled with compressed atmospheric air Into which saturated steam is Introduced. The chief merit claimed for this system is that cylinder condensation Is almost totally avoided by the high temperature of air compression and high superheat of the mixture.