Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1910 — FACTS IN TABLOID FORM. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

Australia will borrow $£,060,009 tor railway construction, rolling stock, development of the gold fields, etc. The first American book printed In the colonies was the “Bay Psalm Book.” It was printed &t\£hmbridge. Mass., in 1640. Of the 2,100 foreigners whose names appear on the tax lists of Yokohama, 1,319 who are not leaseholders are at present declining to pay municipal taxes. Most of the cotton produced in China Is grown on small farms of fire to seven acres. The whole family engages in the cultivating and works as many as twelve hours a day. Coatesville, Pa., Is making preparetions for celebrating next year the one hundredth anniversary of the rolling df the first boiler plate in America. This was done in that place in 1810 in a small mill operated by water rpower, which was the beginning of a -great plant. A perfect feminine face should measure exactly five times the width of an eye across the cheek bones. The eye should be exactly two-thirds the width of the mouth and the length of the ' ear exactly twice that of the eye. The space between the eyes should be exactly the length of one ej*e. Queen Helena of Italy has signified her Intention of becoming a member of the International Congress of Mothers. She wishes to Join in the work for the welfare of the children of the world, and will send a special envoy to the next meeting of the organization, which is to be held In Denver next year. An unsolved problem In geological history is the disappearance of the gigantic dinosaurs which may be said to have ruled the animal world In the cretaceous period. They are known to have lived In nearly all lands until the close of that period, says Dr. A. S. Woodward, and there is no reason to believe that they suffered fromia struggle with any warm-blooded competitors. They seem to have died a natural death. “What’s that bonehead of a husband o’ mine done now!” asked the wife or an east side thug of a pair of precinct detectives as they pushed their way Into her tenement room. “Dinged a feller’s crust, ye sag? And ye’ll git him ,1 s’pose. Now ain’t that Jest like the big mut? Why, say Jflfnever dons nothin’ and got away with it dean cept t’ lift a doormat, and that had •Welcome’ on it. There it is under the bed.”—New York Tribune. At a meeting of teachers in London, Dr. Cunningham, head of the Municipal Dental Institute for Children, at Cambridge, England, recommended the formation of tooth brush clubs. “Even If the brushes are far from beings ideal,” Dr. Cunningham said, “the result Is invariably beneficial. At Cambridge we start with the youngest child, and once we have treated a child we assume the responsibility qf keeping Its teeth In good condition until It leaves school—without recourse to forceps.” ■'* The -futility of hunting fugitives with bloodhounds when the trails of those sought lead across the modem oiled thoroughfares was demonstrated recently In Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago. Many robberies resulted In an addition to the police force of two bloodhounds. Tests were made of the dogs' ability to follow trails, and all proved successful until the person making the trail took an oiledjtreet The scent'was Immediately lost, according to the police, and the dogs were unable to pick it up again.—Popular Mechanics. Prime Minister Zahle of Denmark, who violated all court traditions by going to a royal reception wearing a black slouch hat, and his wife, who retains her place as a stenographer In the Danish parliament, are subjects of many Jokes In European papers. The current number of Ulk has a cartoon showing Hefr Zahle making an address In parliament. His wife, rising from the reporters’ table, says: “Hubby, dear; Just a moment; make a little pauee; Europe must have patience; the point of my pencil has broken off.” Governor Fort of New Jersey is fond of telling the following story of how he shot his first rabbit: When a boy on the Fort homestead, in Burlington coitoty, he was hurriedly called on, by some boys of the neighborhood and told to get hia gun, as s nice, fat rabbit was perched on a fence near the house. He quickly sallied forth, gun In hand. Biasing away with both barrels at the game, he rushed over and found the animal dead. “And," adds the governor, “Judging by the atmosphere in the neighborhood, it had probably been dead for more than a week.” A letter from Venice published la Figaro, says that visitors to that city may soon see there “the largest firesce painting In the world.” It to the work ot a Venetian painter, Bruehl, and oovers a space of seventy meter* (230 feet) in length. The article says that this great*work. which Is said to be artistic excellence. Is In themuntclpal loan establishment of Venice.” When the Wald Nord painting in the Hotel de Ville. at Paris, was unveiled. It was contended that Its three, thousand square feet made It the largeal patntlag In the world, but the celling painting In the palace at Wurtburg, painted In 1758, coveting a space of about 6,400 square feet, was probably fergottea when this claim was aada.