Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1910 — FACTS IN TABLOID FORM. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

j£’A'--flower cut in the > morning will outlive flowers cut'laXer in the day. The word "mikado" signifies something like "the 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 n law wk i«h makes traction companies return the fares to passengers who are on a car which is detained ten minutes or more. The-Lincolnahire (England) county court ordered a man<who was owing >9O to a money lender, to pay the debt in installments'of 2 cents, .jl. month,-at which rate it will take 365 years to pay off* the sum. The bursting of a gas main, in Horseferry road, Westminster, London, led to the serious Illness of a number of the residents In the locality.. The gas company provided the sufferers with medical aid and milk. . The owner of a good library solemnly warded a friend against the practice of lending books. To punctuate his 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 tiined 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 of the Period,” in which he discusses al 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 its share of troubles and suits over ejected "tanks.” Mrs. David E. Lucas and Mrs. Mary E. Ide are the leaders in a movemeht 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 the use of convicts for five years.

For many years the Mexican dollar was current at and in the vicinity of the Chinese coast and-river ports, but now Chinese dollars are coined at.the provincial mints at Tientsin! Nanking, Wuchang, Hankow, Canton and elsewhere, but the mintage of one 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 that 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 taken its place to a considerable extent in the tanning industry. Equipment of a three-chair dental elinlc in the City Hall for the free care of school children’s teeth, the erection of a series of illuminated corner signs along Broad street, reading, “Danger, run slow,” to Keep automobile speeders jn bounds, and the abolition of all horses on the city’s hospital ambulances are a few of the reforms now before tha Philadelphia council’s finance committee. i Mrs. Richard Watson Gilder, as president of the National League for the Civic Education of Women, 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 leisure./ ? _ 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 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* that the amethyst was a 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. Thia creche is for the special benefit of well-to-do mothers, <ho, striving to be fashionable, have taken up ibridge whist They begln to play cards about noon and often are unable to get back to their homes 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 of. about sdventy-flve people, while I suppose about seventeen is the average number for a dramatic company. A prlma dbnna who is not a star gets from SIOO 4q .$350 a week, the principal comedian -from $l5O to S6OO $ week, the tenor from $76 to S3OO, the bass about the same. The minor characters range from S4O to SIOO a week, while show girls get from $26 to S3O, and chorus people from sls to $26, the average salary being about sls.—-Ev-erybody's Magazine.