Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1910 — THINGS YOU HAY NOT KNOW [ARTICLE]

THINGS YOU HAY NOT KNOW

Fully 80 pqr cent of the income of Yucatan is derived from sisal fiber. Germany's Imports of palm and palmetto lea vjes exceed three hundred tons a year. The city of Prague harbors an architect who rejoices in a name disfigured by no vowels, viz., Rtkrz. Thyje are now about 700,000 cows in Japan. Until a few years ago the natives did not care for milk, butter or cheese. The cigar holiness in the British isles has declined largely in late years, owing to the. increasing taste for cigarette smokipg. I mow being used instead of glue in the making of organs far.tropical countries, where the damp climate causes glue to peel off.

Belgium has more than 1,200 agricultural associations, such as farmers' clubs, apiarian societies, horticultural and avicultural associations, syndicates for the improvement of cattle, goats, swine, rabbits, etc.' In the number of cotton spindles, Great Britain, with nearly 52,000,000, and the United States, with 27,000,000, are far ahead of other countries. Germany comes next, with 9,592,855, fallowed by France, with 7,006,428. Trading on the coasts of Madagascar are 425 small schooners. James G. Carter, our consul at Tamatave, says he thinks some keen Yankee could go- over there and do a good business fitting those busy craft with motors!.' The latest use of radium was upon a case of fllariasis, or blood worm disease, in Paris. In this mosquitocaused disease the blood at night swarms with millions upon millions of microscopic maggots plugging up and inflaming and swelling the kernels in the armpits. A short course of radium in the armpits cured the swelling and made the worms scarcer In the blood. The first Bible printed from movable metal types was issued by Gutenberg at Mainz in 1452. It is sometimes called the “Mazarln Bible,” because the copy that first attracted the attention of bibliographers was three hundred years later among the books of Cardinal Mazarin. It was discovered by Pepure a hundred years after the death of Mazarln, which occurred in 1661. « According to the latest statistics, the total peat bogs of Sweden wonld be capable of producing 19,000,000,000 tons of air-dried peat, suitable for fuel. This quantity, as compared with the present import of coal, would be sufficient for a period of fifteen hundred years. More exact examinations of the geological character of the peat bogs will soon be started by the Swedish Geological Society. Lifting magnets have demonstrated their value in'certain special lines ol work and are now in dally use in many places. An aggregate weight of fifteen tons of rails is handled by magnets at the works of the United States steel plant at Gary, Ind. This comprises the “lock section” of a pile of rails which consists of a layer of track with alternate rails inverted so that the mass will hold together.

The original languages of the Bible are Hebrew, Aramaic and Hellenistic Greek. Hebrew is the Semitic dialect of the inhabitants of Canaan adopted by the Israelites when they entered that territory. It has no expressive conjunctions or participles. This renders jt Impossible to express in Hebrew deljcate shades of logical or philosophical thought. However, Its Idioms are most picturesque and paint vivid mental pictures. The period In which the Old Test* ment was being written oovers one thousand years, while the period of the composition of the New Testament covers about one hundred years. The oldest poems In the Old Testament date back to about the year B. C. 1200, while some of the Psalms and Book of Daniel are placed at the year B. C. 200. The earliest part of the New Testament was written about the year A. D. 50 and the latest part about A. D. 150. It Is said of Lord Kitchener that, on his own confession, he has never met the woman for whom he cared to step aside from his work. Queen Victoria once asked him If It were true he did not care for any woman. “It Is true with one exception," said the tactful "K." “And who Is that?” asked the queen. "Your majesty," said Kitchener. “They say he Is a woman hater, but I have not found him sq,” Queen Victoria said afterward. —London Opinion. The proprietor of a Lrge downtown barber shop has found It necessary to double his force of manicures, and says that at the present rate of bus! ness increase he will soon be compelled to put another booth in his place He said that thW did not show any Increased desire on the part of his customers to keep their nails in good form, but rather the development of the manicure hatfe.. "i would go right back to one nail doctor In a week." he eald, “and that would eventually b* come a poor business. If I sent the girls away and took men In their stead. Our girls bkke from sls to S2O a week. A man Jut aa capable could not earn one-half that amount. That’s .the manicure bdalnosa."— New York Xfibuna. . 1 1