Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1910 — SOMETHING FOE EVERYBODY [ARTICLE]

SOMETHING FOE EVERYBODY

The smokers of England consume 3,000,000,000 cigarettes every month. The Swiss watchmaking industry nas shrunken to half of its one-time size. The oldest waiter in Gerinany, aged 77, recently retired from his Work at Eibing. ’ North Carolina, South Dakota, Colorado, Alabama and Virginia, in the order named, lead in the production of mica. * In 1908 the American merchant marine carried only 1% per cent of the freight between the United States and Uruguay. New Mexico produced 2,467,937 short tons of coal last year, a decrease of a trifle more than 6 per cent from the output of 1907. France has followed the lead of the United States in the establishment of a laboratory for the investigation of .mine accidents. The cruiser battleship Invincible of the British navy- maintained a speed of 33% miles an hour for eight hours in a recent, test. About 2,000,000,000 barrels of oil, or ehough to fill the Panama canal twice, was produced in the United States during the last fifty years. Brazilian scientists have succeeded in developing a new variety of coffee, with unusually large, fine berries, which ripen very early. , English, was spoken by 22,000,000 people at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Now more than 100,000,000 people speak it. Asbestos is being used now in the construction of warships to a considerable extent, to replace the inflammable wood and the heavy iron. . There are 240,000 different species of insects on the earth. Some are so small that 4,000 of them are only equal in size to a grain of sand. The pineapple is proving the most important and valuable of all the fruits in Formosa. A single firm had an output of 350,000 tons last year. If some holes are punched through a coal shovel from the back, dust and slack will drift through and the roughened places will prevent coal sliding off. In Australia there are ants which build their nests along a north and south line so accurately that a traveler may direct his courses by their aid, - _—u~,._ __ _ There are in Great Britain 510,000 holdings of over one acre, of which 67 per cent are under fifty acres, whereas only 3% per cent are over 300 acres. The project of linking India and Ceylon by a thirty-eight-mile railroad bridge that will have coral reefs to support its piers is again being agitated. In Massachusetts tree planting is systematically conducted along the public highways. Fifteen thousand trees have been [planted in a few years. t' A cigar lighter and Incandescent lamp, mounted on the same handle and operated by the current from ignition batteries, is a convenience for automobilists. Of late there has been an extraordinary development of service in fine, new modern fast ships between South America and ports in England, Ger» many and Italy. Work has begun in Germany ;on a university professor’s airship, of the general plan of Count Zeppelin’s, but larger and having wooden instead of aluminum frames. Twelve geologists, seven topographers and three engineers, divided among fourteen field parties, are exploring the mysteries of Alaska for the geological survey.

A wire screen, supported at the ends by curved metal springs, has been patented by an Illinois man as a pillow, which he claimed to be cool and comfortable and sanitary. Motor boat service has been Introduced on the Viga Canal from Mexico City to Lake Xochimllco, the trip being made in about three hours. S. Malo Is the head of the concern. There Is a telephone line over the Alps, but the record elevation In this respect belongs to the United States, there being a line at Camp Bird, Col., which is 13,000 feet above the Bea level. t , According to the census of 1905 the population of the five principal cities in Saxony waa as follows: Dresden. 516,296; Leipzig, 503,627; Chemnitz, 244,927; Plauen, 106,381, and Zwickau, 68,502. > A patent waa recently Issued for an arc lamp In which use is made of a mantle similar to that of a Welsbach gas mantle, whichVitarrounds the arc and is heated to incandescence thereby. 1 \ No matter at what time of the year _jhe Japanese child Is born, whether In May, the middle of summer, or late in December, it Is always said to be one year old on the January 1 following its birth. One kind of Mexican pineapple, known as the cuyonne, is entirely free from spines, and the flesh Is much more tender and Juicy. These cost up to .75 cents apiece and the demand Is far ahead of the supply. So often we hear it said: "He is a good talker. He will ‘make good.’” la talk so necessary, for success?