Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1910 — FACTS IN TABLOID FORM. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

A flower cut in the morning will outlive flowers cut later in the day. The word “mikado” signifies something like “tbe sacred gate” or “the sublime porte." '•* - A man’s friends are something like natural gas: when he needs them most, the supply is apt to run short Chicago now has a law which makes traction'companies return tlfe fares to passengers who are on a ear which is detained ten or mere. -' The Lincolnshire (England) county court ordered a man, who was owing |9O to a moapy lender, to pay the debt in Installments of 2 cents month, at which rate it will take 365 years to pay oft the sum. The bursting of a gas main in Horseferry road, Westminster, London, led to the Berious illness of a number of tbe > residents in the locality. ' The gas company provided the sufferers with medipal aid and milk. The owyier of a good library solemnly warned a friend against the practice of lending books. To punctuate bis advice he showed his friend the well-stocked shelves. “There,” said he, “every ■> one of those books was lent me.” There is a society in New York composed of negroes which .gives a series of musical and dramatic entertainments in the course of the winter. These are usually timed to fit)some historical occasion in which the negroes are interested. Marcel Prevost has written an article for a Paris publication on the subject of “Fashions of the Period,” in which he discusses at length the methods employed by women to grow thin. He. denounces them all as injurious to body and mind,-.with the one excep-tion-rational exercise. The State Railroad Commission of Massachusettsyhas a knotty problem to selve—Just what are the rights of a drunken man on a public conveyance. TJhe question bah been put up to tbs board by a transit company that has more than its share of troubles and suits over ejected “tanks.'’

Mrs. David E. Lucas and Mrs. MAry E. Ide are the leaders In a movement to put married convicts at work On farms and to apply their earnings to the support of their families. Mrs. Lucas has offered a tract of four thousands acres of land in Colorado for ths use of convicts for five years. For many years the Mexiqm dollar was current at and Jn the vicinity of the Chinese coast an<Vrlver ports, but ■now Chinese dollars are coined at ths provincial mints at Tien tsin, Nanking, Wuchang, Hankow, Canton and elsewhere, but the mintage of N>ne province is only accepted at a discount in another province. : Consul-General Robert P. Skinner, in a report on the manufacture of lactic acid in Germany, says thgt seven thousand to eight thousand tons of the product were exported to the United States in 1908, mostly via Rotterdam. This acid is chiefly used by the American' dyeing establishments, formic acid having t&ken its place to a considerable extent In the tanning Industry. Equipment of a three-chair dental clinic -in the City Hall for the free care of Bchool children’s teeth, the erection of a series of Illuminated corner signs along Broad street, reading, “Danger, run slow,”(to keep automobile speederij in bounds, and the abolition of all horses on tbs'city’s hospital ambulances are a few of the reforms now before the Philadelphia council’s finance committee.

Mrs. Richard WatsoO Gilder, as president of the National League for the Civic Education of Womens has been asked to cause an investigation to be made of the conditions under which women work in the laundries in Greater New York. The league is the most active in the anti-suffrage societies in this country. Its membership is made up, with a few exceptions, exclusively of women of leiture. ( A good example-of one of the ways In which magical properties became attributed to'natural objects is the stone known as an amethyst. The ancient Indian name of thlß stone had the sound represented by its present name. In Greek this sound happens to mean “anti-wine;” hence, without more ado, the ancients declared that the amethyst was a preventive and cure for drunkenness!—London Telegraph. A creche .for the children of rich women is said to be the latest move in the interest of the women and children of London. «ThU creche Is. (or the special benefit of well-to-do mothers, who, striving to be fashionable, have taken up bridge whist Tki|y begin to playcards abSut noon and often gpe unable to get back to (heir Jiomes before 9, In the evening. The object of the creche is to Insure careful attention for their children Instead of leaving them to the care of servants. A Musical comedy for -comic opera of the first class averages a cast v of about, seventy-five people, while I suppose about seventeen is the average number for a dramatic company. A prima donna who is not a‘star gets from (100 to 1360 a week, the principal comedian "from flM' tof 9<Wi week, the tenor from 976 to |3OO, the bass about the same. The minor characters, range from 940 to 9100 a week, while show girls get from 9*6 to 9*o, and chorus people from 916 to *25, the JWtete. naJaa about »i*.— js»crybodyfktegazlne.