Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1910 — QUEER STORIES [ARTICLE]

QUEER STORIES

Seven out of ten recruits in Russia are illiterate. An average of eleven persons have been injured daily and one person killed every other day for toe last three months by the Chicago street cars. In using dogs as ards to sentries the Italian army, as a Roman newspaper points out, hSH merely revived a custom prevalent among the ancient Greeks and Romans. According to an English court, a test for neurasthenia is to make a man stand up, with head erect and eyes closed, and whistle. A neurasthenia subject, it is said, cannot do this. One of the leaders in Nevt York's business world,'who is also a conspicuous philanthropist, writes from a vacation resort, where he went to rest: “There is no rest in Hie country for a man who receives mall.” The government commissioners appointed in Italy to report on the question of woman suffrage have recommended that women engaged in trade have the right to vote for members of the chambers of commerce. Turkey’s government has placed with a firm of cotton mill owners of Leeds. England, an order for about 1,500,000 yards of khaki cloth for the Turkish army. The contract is the largest placed for khaki since the Russo-Jap-anese war. There has Just been unearthed from the River Annan, near Lockerbie, a relic of early Britain in the shape of a canoe in a wonderfully good state of preservation. It is of the type known as dugouts, the material being the trunk of a black oak tree, about twelve feet long, rudely shaped and hollowed out. —London Standard. Probably one-half the drinks served in the cases of France are sirups diluted .with water or ordinary siphon soda. Such drinks cost 8 or 15 cents a glass in the cases, and yet the conspicuous soda-water fountain of the United States is seen but rarely in France, and then only in the large cities through which the American tourist passes. A new telegraph cable has recent- • ly been laid right across the Forth bridge. The cable, whioh was laid by the post office, and is its property, has taken the place of the former one, which was found to be unsatisfactory. A train of six wagons was employed to convey the cable, and this moved slowly across the bridge, while the men laid the cable down on the footpath on the up-line side of the bridge.