Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1910 — FACTS IN TABLOID FORM. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

The Erst horse railroad was built in 1826. Coal was first used as an Ulumfibant In 1826. The velocipede was invented bj Urals in 1817. The only self-supporting territory of the United State* Is Alaska. The Chilean government has under contract 698 miles of railroads at an estimated cost of $24,297,680. A chimney of concrete block wao recently built In Germany without the use of scaffolding, which represents a great economy in the ebst. Levantine newspapers . report that Turkey has granted a conditional concession to an American .syndicate for a 1,243-mile railroad through Asia Minor. Alaska has three times the placer arts California had. California has produced in fifty-nine years $1,400,000,000 in gold and Alaska will produce three timeß as much when properly developed. ' Herr Rosenthal, the pianist, Is noted for his quiet humor. An unsuccessful pianist said- to him one day: "I am losing a tremendous lot of money In connection with my recitals. What shall I do?” "Give fewer concerts,” replied Rosenthal quietly.—M. A. P. Thirteen grams of radium chloride have been produced at the imperial Austrian radium factory, located at St Joacbimsthal It is estimated that this mineral has a value of $45,000 to $50,000 a gram, or more than $500,000 for the entire amount Pure metallic radlnm is never seen, In Jewish houses of worshlpf* per-_ sons who are in mourning arise at a certain time during the service'and repeat the Kaddlsb. According to the Hebrew Standard, there are trades people for whom the mourners’ prayer Is no bar to business. In a recent Issue that paper says: “The trustees of Temple Israel of Harlem, J|ould suppress the individual who on Sabbath mornings distributes pamphlets to those saying Raddish, advertising the wards of a monument dealer,* Britons are ceasing to look to the United States for their beef and are turning more and more to Argentina for meats and cattle. Prominent English ship owners and Argentina cattle raisers have organized a company which will undertake to ship supplies of chilled meat regularly each week from the River La Plata to London and Manchester. Work already has been begun on nine new fifteen-knot refrigerator steamers, which wm he added to the fleet already at the company’s disposal. Many Japanese women gild their teeth. Women of Arabia stain their fingers and toes red. In Greenland women paint their faces blue and yellow. In India the %omen of high caste paint their teeth black. A Hindoo bride is anointed from, head to "foot with grease and saffron. Borneo women dye their hair In fantastic colors—pink, green, blue and scarlet. In New Holland scars, made carefully with shells, form elaborate patterns on the women’s faces. In some South American tribes the women draw the front teeth, esteeming as an ornament the black gap thus made.

The completion of rafting operations on the Penobscot River for the season shows that nearly 129,000,000 feet of logs have come down the boom from the east and west branches of the river and Its tributaries. When the few straggling rafts now in the river arrive at the boom it is likely thgt the total will reach about 134,900,000 feet for the season. This is a great increase over the number of logs handled at the booms last year, when only 13,000,000 feet were rafted down. The total this season, however, includes 9,000,000 feet which were cut last year.—Lewiston (Me.) Evening Journal. — r __- —^ “Pneumonia and consumption follow frequently In the wake of the often neglected ‘cold,’ when the resistive powers of the body are at their lowest ebb," declares Dr. Neff, Philadelphia's director of public health. In a bulletin. “One of the best preventives against tuberculosis,” Dr. Neff adds, “is robust health, which gives great resistive power to the disease; and one of the first signs of depreciation in health is fatlgne. Although this, with other minor aliments, may seem of slight Importance, yet It is frequently the forerunner of more serious conditions. If "colds' were less commonly neglected, many cases of consumption would \ be discovered end cures effected.- and pftumonla end many allied diseases would be prevented.” Many of the famous women in history loved children* though deprived of children’s love most of their Uvea. One wee Queen Adelaide, whose two little ones died In Infancy. She mourned her lose the rest of her life, end sought solaoe in bringing happiness to the children of others. It became her custom to give a great Christmas tree as a gift to the boys and girls wherever the court spent the festive season. The tree always stood under Chinese diygons suspended from the celling. The children walked In two by two, and* each one wee kissed In turn by the queen. Adelaide also distributed all of the Christmas presents. It Is said sha always enjoyed these gatherings until the Utile guests had gone, when she would be overcome of her own childless ’