Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1910 — FACTS IN TABLOID FORM. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

Two bushels of olives give three gallons of oil. There are'more outbreaks of* fire in London Saturday than any other day. Plymouth (England) breakwater has 3,800,000 tons of stone, or as much as the great pyramid of Cheeps. Roast veal is the least digestif le of butcher’s meat. It takes'five a*d a half hours to digest. Roast goose takes two and a half hours. A piano stool that will accommodate but one person under ordinary circumstances, but which contains leaves which can be spread to hold two to play duets, has been invented by a Chicagoan. At nine Paganini was composing sonatas, while Malfe, the great Irish composer, it is claimed, wrote '‘Lover’s Mistake,” a song which was sung by the prime donna, Mme. Vestrls, in the drama "paul Pry.” Chung Ling, a priest of Buddha, well versed in all the mysterious knowledge that is sjscfeted in those mystic temples of the plains of China, is a student in the Franklin school night class for foreigners, Washington. Gertrude E. Curtis, of Bradford, Pa., is the first colored woman dentist. She passed the final examination in the College of Dental Surgery, in Philadelphia, with high honors, and Intends to begin active practice Without delay. She believes dentistry is one of the best professions, for women, and has encouraged several colored girls to take up the study. The coal market of the Argentine Republic, heretofore supplied almost exclusively from Great Britain, is to be Invaded by American coal mined in West Virginia and exported from Norfolk. The first cargo is being loaded in the British tramp steamer London Bridge, bound for Puerto la Plata. West Virginia coal, it is asserted, can be put in Argentine 36 cents cheaper than British coal. Writing from Calcutta, Consul Perry says that It. has been found that the Skin of the rat is well adapted to a variety of purposes such as the binding of books, the making of purses, gloves and other articles for use and adornment. It is stated that already the traffic in this commodity amounts to about $250,000 a year in Great Britain,* and advertisements have appeared for supplies of skins of the brown rat in lots of 100 to 10,000. Most members of the upper house possess more than one title, and not a few have a large number. The duke of Abercorn is holder of four Scotch, four Irish and two British peerages. The marquis of Lansdowne has on* Scotch, five Irish ’ and two British titles. Other'peers who are well equipped in this respect are the duke 4>f Norfolk (seven), the marquis of Breadalbane (eight), the duke of Portland (five), the duke of Devonshire (five) and the duke of Northumberland (six))—Westminster Gazette. The German diamond fields In south* west Africa are still yielding a goodly supply of extremely small but some reports indicate that the industry will be short-lived. Dr. KutzBuckeburg, after spending eighteen months in the neighborhood, explained the situation to the Cologne branch of the Deutsche Kolonial Gesellschaft, He said that the diamonds were superior In their form and brllliancyto those of the British South African mines, but that so far no stone had been found weighing more than a x single karat Reade’s, literary work was, Sir Robert Anderson remarks, a rare combination of genius and plodding. A brass scuttle which stood by the fireplace held the Illustrated and other papers which reached him week by week. From these he culled anything that took his fancy, and the cuttings were thrown into a companion scuttle, to be afterward Inserted in scrap books and duly indexed. Materials for bis novels and plgys were thus supplied or suggested. The accuracy of his descriptions ofevents and places was phenomenal.—Blackwood’s Magazine. At nineteen Charles XII., king of Sweden, with 10,000 troops, routed 50,000 Russians under Peter the Great, at Narva; George Washington was a major; "Carro del Cieolo” came from the Spanish pen of Calderon; Wilkie, the English painter, painted his “Pitlessle Fair,” containing 140 figures, regarded as one of the most complete canvases Of the period; Tennyson won the chancellors medal at Cambridge University for his poem, “Timbuctoo,” and Klopstock conceived and compoeed * good part of his "Messiah,’’ the great work which gave such impulse and impetus. to German literature and fired the genius of the Fatherland. ' Massachusetts, New York, Virginia and Kentucky were the foremost founder states. New Yotk and Massachusetts have been strongly nourished by Europe’s money, culture and immigrants and plenty of good, hard sense to boot. Virginia lost out through pride and war, with her many bloody sacrifices. Malaria has most ruined Kentucky. Kentucky was our oldest, longest maintained frontier, settled up by first and second generations of English farmers knd a few Irish and Scotch and old revolutionary soldiers. Kentucky had more and harder Injun fighting than any other state, besides largely indulging fa the 1812-1815 and the Mexican and other wars.-—New York Press.