Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1910 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Some of the moon’s mountains are 36,000 feet high. —■. ■ t Berlin is said to have more trees in the streets than any other city. J ~ The train which the Kaiser uses on his travels three years building. The United States is the world's largest consumer of cofTee and cocoa. Electric heating devices are successfully employed for branding cigar boxes. | The pigmy mouse of Siberia is said to be the smallest quadruped in the world. During the present year the entire railway system of Buda-Pesth will be electrified. There are at present in the moo ice schools of France 7,320 . rrench ant 819 foreign students. It is estimated that there are 2,n00, 000 horse power in unusued waters In the state of Wisconsin. It is figured that a successful physi cian mu.-t have a clientele of 150 ilies, or about 750 persons. Electric signs are to„be extensively used on the stations of the loop of the Chicago elevated railways. One of the latest forms of feminine commercial enterprises in Paris is a school where smiting is taught. By a vote of 31 to 21 the Oregon Legislature has refused to abolish the whipping post for wife-beaters. It is said that silicide and boride of titanium, products of the e’.ectric fur nace, are as hard as the diamond.

More than one-quarter of the tobacco consumed >y the Spanish Na tion comes from the United States. German women are taking up box mg and there are \ number of schools where the art of self-defense is taught. John J. Boobar, librarian of the House oi Representatives, is preparing ing a card index of the Congressional Record. It is said officially thai locomotives do not set 90 or even 75 per cent oi the forest fires, but they do sot about 60 per cent of them. The Women’s Medical School ai Shanghai recently awarded diplomas to six graduates. This school was founded three years ago.. The Mayoralty chair of Cambridge has come to be called “the hoofloc chair” by those who have followed Cambridge politics for many years. —— The Danish government proposes land and sea fortifications-, the con struct ton of 20 torpedo bo; ts and si? submarines, improvement in mine 3, etc. New York state now has 47 cities. The latest addition to the list is Lack a wanna, up in Erie county, near iiuf falo, whose first charter Govcrno: Hughes signed a few days ago. Eugene Henard, who attained fame with bis palace of illusions at the Paris Exposition in 1900, has just com pleted a similar, but larger piece of eccentric architecture for exhibition in that city. The state of Washington has abol ished the tip in hotels, dining cars ant other public places. -The new law makes both the giving and receiving of a tip a misdemeanor, and imposes a heavy line. Rochester, N. Y., has maintained what are called “social Centers” for over a year. A number of school buildings are utilized as meeting places for the people, without distinction, to gather and discuss subjects of interest to all. There is just one way for the peop’e of the city find it possible to tr y eggs, chickens, meat and flour for It's money—that is for some of them tc leave the city and go back to raising more hens, more Cattle, and growing more wheat. The largest apartment-house in tire world is being built on a site covering the entire block bounded by Eightysixth and Eighty seventh stree s, Broadway and Amsterdam avenue, Manhattan. It will be twelve stories high, with a court In the center, and .will cost $3,000,000. New York has raised $1,075,000 for the Hudson-Fulton celebration, which begin September 25 next, and $15,000 of the amount will be devoted to aeronautc features. The reproduction of Fulton’s little steamboat will have a rich setting with fast motorboats ard airships skimming around as it moves upstream. The Maryland Prisoners’ Aid Association, w-hich maintains a house of industry in Baltimore for ex-eon victe, has completed another year of good service to the state and its charges. In the year 229 men have been parol? ed in care of the association, and. of this number only four have been returned to the criminal-court and sen,teac«d to prison.