Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1910 — QUEER STORIES [ARTICLE]

QUEER STORIES

Soldiers in the Russian army are to carry compasses with luminous needles. Two thousand million microbes are sometimes Injected Into a person’s blood to cure disease. Cavalry officers in Italy undergo a course of instruction in pigeon training for military purposes. Arranged In a straight line, the railroad tracks of the world would reach to the moon and back again. The smallest screws are those made in watch factories. An ordinary thimble would hold 100,000 of them. The Eastern States, from Maine to Alabama, produced, gold worth $259,143 and silver worth $35,070 in I^oß. Covering an area of 2,450 acres, the largest hydraulic gold mine' in tl\g World is In Trinity County. California, r— The lighthouse of Heligoland has a light of 20,000,000 pandle power. At Nuremberg a lamp ten times'as powerful has bqen made. Among the important Improvements contemplated in Japan are the quadrupling of the Tokio-Yokohama Railway and the improvement or the KiotoKobe line* so that a very much higher spedd may be developed. Breweries and tanneries and printing ink factories confer exemption ■from tuberculosis, and employes in turpentine factories never have rheumatism. Copper mining excludes thS possibility of typhoid among the workers^— Harper’s Weekly. Cotton growing has been resumed in Palestine. An extensive suitable area Is available. During our Civil War cotton was cultivated there on an extensive scale, of which several old cotton presses still bear witness. It is ■aid that the cotton was of very good quality. Companies are being organised. In Turkey of late years a/distinct revival of the cotton Industry has become manifest. From 1880 to 1908 the heart death rate es the United! States Increased 57 per cent; In Massachusetts the apoplexy rate 135 per. cent. For the whole country the apoplexy rate Increased 84 per cent. For the wjiole United Btatels the kidney, heart and apoplexy rate Increased S 3 per cent. Boeton decreased the typhoid rate 39 par cent; Philadelphia increased the cancer rate Ti per bent " » ’