Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1910 — FACTS IN TABLOID FORM. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

6111 ln th ® mornkv jrtil, outlive ftp we rs cut later_ in the fliy' jahe vjjjrd “mikado” slgnifleffi erne*' thing like "the sacred gate” q*| s rae 7 sublime porte.” i A man’s* friends are something! like 11 natural gas: when he needs them most, the supply is apt to fbn short. Chicago now has a law which makes traction companies return theffSjnes 4s passengers who SfiTkon a car fijficjh. If. det&igSg -Wl wfMB or mora. fS | 9 ! jthi» Lhw»lns®fsJ( England court ordered a man, who wasKjwlng S9O to a money lender, to jgiy the debt ln Installments of 2 cents a month, at which rate it will take 305 years to pay off the sum, VfflFT bur !*?S of a gas main ln Horseferry . road, Westminster, London, led ; to the serious pilhS jor a number residents in the locality. The gas company provided the sufferfrfjwjtk^a^edleal aid and milk. The ownec-of a good library solemnly warned -4 friend against the tlce of lending books. To punctuate his advice he showed his friend thp weil-BtockieJKifhelvps. .“There,” said he, “every one of those books was lent me." __ *251 _. -ST*t ,':5 • There is a society In New York composed of negroes which gives a series of musical and dramatic entertainments! Sr ”fne course of the winter*timed‘to fit some historical in which “the negroes are interested.Marcel Prevost has written Bn article for a Paris publication on the subwhich 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 exception—rational exercise.

The State Railroad Commission of Massachusetts has a knotty problem to selve—just what are the rights of a drunken man on a public conveyance. The question has been put up to the board by a transit company that has more than Bhare 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 A work on farms and to apply ttreir earnlngs to the support of their families. Mrs. Lucas has offered a tract of four thousands acres of land in Colorado Jor toe use of convicts for five years. For many years the Mexican dollar was current ut and in the vicinity of the Chinese coast and rlWy ports, but now Chinese dollars are coined at the provincial mints at Tien tsin, Nanking, Wuchang, Hankow, Canton and elsewhere, but the mintage of one province is only accepted at a discount ln another province. Consul-General Robert P. Skinner, in a report on the manufacture of lactic acid in Germany, says that seven thousand to .eigfit thousand tons of the product were exported to the United States ln ISOS, mostly via Rotterdam. This Acid is chiefly used by the American dyeing establishments, formic acid having\akeh 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 School children's teeth, the erection of a series of illuminated corner signs along Broad Btreet, reading, "Danger, run slow," to keep automobile speeders in bounds, and the abolition of all' horses on the city’s hospital ambulances are a few of the reforms now before the Philadelphia council’s finance committee. Mrß. Richard Watson Gilder, l as president of the National League for the Civic Education of Women, has been asked to cahae 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 leisure. A good example of one of the ways in which magical profiles became attributed to natural oWeets ts the stone known as an amethyst 'The ancient Indian name of this 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 thkt the amethyst was a preventive and care for drunkenness! —London Telegraph. % A creche for the children of rich women is said to be the latest move la the Interest of the women and children of London. This creche 14 for the special benefit of well-to-do mothers,'who, striving to be fashionable, have tal(W up bridge whist They begin to about tiqoa and Often are unable-to get bfcck to their homes before $ 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 i musical comedy for comic opera of the flret class averagis a cast of about seventy-flve people/ while I suppose about seventeen is the average number for a dramatic company. A prims donna who is not a star gets from §IOO to S3BO a week, the principal oopjedian from $l5O to SBOO 'a week, the tenor from $75 to S3OO, the hast about the same. The minor actere range from S4O to SIOO a while show girls get from S2B to S3O, and chorus people from sls to $25, the avenge salary being about slß.—Everybody's Magazine.