Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1910 — QUEER STORIES [ARTICLE]

QUEER STORIES

The University of Buenos Ayres has now 4,364 students. Bees were unknown to the Indians, but they were brought over from England only a few years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. Researches in Germany show that a given'quantity of red hot coke will absorb four times the amount of water that will be absorbed by the same coke if cord. *, ' 1 The British government has decided to open a roads department, which will administer a fund on projected highway improvements of about $3,000,000 during the first year iof its existence. The Hebrew Standard remarks that two blazing signs in Broadway call attention to a condition. One of these bears the words, “The Man Who Owns Broadway,” while on the next corner another sign equally flaring shows the word, “Israel.”

The total value of church property in the United States reported ini.1906, for all denominations, was $1,257,575,867, of which $935,942,578 was reported for Protestant bodies, $292,638,787 for the Roman Catholic church, and $28,994,502 for all the remaining bodies. It is a matter of grave concern to the missionaries and other permanent residents of China to observe from year to year the increasing cast of living, which, pf course, includes every item of household expense. Double and treble the prices are asked that were paid ten years ago. After hearing a French menu Dr. Johnson said to Boswell: “Sir, my brain Is obfuscated with the perusal of this heterogeneous conglomeration of English ill-spelt and a foreign tongue. Bid the rascals bring me a dish ot. hog’s puddings, a slice or two from the upper cut of a well-roasted sirloin and two apple dumplings.” At present tbe highest salaried woman doing departmental work in Washington is Misw A H. Shortrldge, of New York City. The State Department recently recognized her services by promotion to a salary of $2,500 per annum, the highest pay ever given to any woman worker by Uncle Sam. Miss Shortrldge began with a position of S9OO a year and has gradually worked her spy up by efficient service.—National Magazine. It is probable that the population of the earth has doubled since 1800, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. No one knows within ton million of what it is in 1909, but no, doubt the figures just published by B. L. Putnam Weale are as good as any other. He gives a grand total of 1,685,000,000. Of these only about a third, or 546,000,000, are white, with 85,000,000 in North America and 453,000,000'in Europe.