Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1910 — Queer Stories [ARTICLE]

Queer Stories

The folding envelope was first used In 1839. The period of deepest sleep varies from 8 o’clock to 5. . The first school for the blind wSlrfstabllshed In 1791 in Liverpool. A patent on a horseshoe designed to prevent the stumbling of hbrees was granted in Panama four years ago. Notwithstanding the duty of 40 per cent a barrel, large’ quantities of apples from Oregon, Washington and other states are consumed in western Canada. Recently published statistics show that during the last year the number of births In France has diminished by 12,692. The number of deaths has in creased by 25,019, and the population of France has decreased by 28,203. In Cuba they fatten* little pigs on cocoanuts, and bake them into Christmas turkeys, and fine they say they are. Pick out cocoanuts that are heavy with water and sound solid when

struck together. In Barbadoes and Trinidad they plaster pitch over the monkey eyes to keep the nut from spoiling.—-New York Press. Germany’s minister of the Interior has addressed to the heads of the various governments within the empire a circular recalling the Information that the kaiser from his private purse makes a grant amounting to about sls on the birth of an eighth son in any family, of the same father and mother., The kaiser also promisee to stand as godfather to the lucky eighth son. In an interview published In the Kleler Neueste Nachrichten, Groseadmlral von Koster says many Interesting things about his Visit to New York, amdhg them the following: “In the absence of President Taft, who was sway on a trip Vo the Mexican frontier, the place of honor was taken by the Vice-President of the United States, Secretary of State Sherman, of New York." Though “SnOffks" as a name is hardly beautiful. Its origin is respectable enough. Kindly people picked up a little toun Sling boy at Sevenoaks. reared nun, end started him In life, after baptising him “William Seven-, oaks.” He became lord mayor of London lr tne reign c lt Henry V., was knighted, and died In 1432. He left benefactions to his native place that were doubtless misused, as was his name, which degenerated to Snooks.