Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1910 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

▲ groucn is a man who has forgottan that he was ever a hoy; Aviation, like all great movements, vis lms a victim now and then. It will please the little ones to know that a Chicago judge has decided that children are a necessity. There are men who can speak seven languages who are utter failures when It oomes to setting up a stove. That new anesthetic should be a good thing to have administered when sue Is having a picture taken.

If you are writing or editing a cornerstone MCMX must be used, otherwise 1910 is easier to figure out. Score something for the Antl-Ncftse Society. Fashion notes states that socks will be quieter this year. A Chicago poet declares that large ears are a sign of dissipation. Thought it was the nose that gave a fellow away. The new King of Belgium, starts in with a salary of only $660,000, but that gives him an incentive to do his best and earn a raise. A Kansas City paper refers to Ethel Barrymore as "Mamma Colt.” Alas! Think how soon she will be sailed "Grandma.” A letter written by John Keats, the foet, was sold in New York a few lays ago for $2,500. Need it be added that Keats is a dead poet? A magazine prints a chart showing that the divorce rate in Japan is much *ver twice that of the United States. But alimony in Japan is really ridiculously cheap. An Oklahoma bandit passed unscathed through years of experience as an umpire, meeting death at last while engaged In the simple pastime at robbing a bank. *T ask for love, spontaneous and free,” sings a lady poet. She should not be blamed. Love that has to be coaxed and put on an allowance isn’t worth singing songs about. Lack of sofas is blamed for a decrease in the number of marriages in some parts of the country. Furniture dealers might exhibit patriotism by making special rates on sofas to men who have more than three daughters each. It is planned to hold a great exhibition in London in 1911 to show graphically W’hat the Christian religion has accomplished since the publication of the King James translation of the Bible three hundred years ago. All the Christian countries of the world are expected to send exhibits. Some Ingenious Englishman has invented a clock, the movement of which m caused by the activity of a minute loantlty of radium, and the inventor ‘Ainks it will run ten thousand years without winding. If “grandfather’s ilock,” famous in song, which stopped short on a certain sad occasion, had Veen equipped with a radium escapesent, it would hardly have got fairly going during its first century. It is a sign of the irony that rules the progress of human knowledge that the heredity theory should come sharply to the front just when the theory . at environment has begun to shape practical life so extensively. Social welfare is nowadays a science and an art; and the sole working hypothesis that underlies it is that men are very largely what their surroundings make them, and that when we Improve environment we improve the individual, society, and the race.

Six hundred dollars a year for the rest of his life is offered by the Canadian government to every citizen who will pay to it S6O a year from the age of 20 to the age of 60; that is, an investment of will yield 6 per cent interest on $12,000 from the time a man reaches 60 till he dies. This offer, as well as many others of smaller amounts, is made in accordance wtth the new government annuity law passed last year. The plan has been in force only a few months, but the superintendent of annuities is quoted as well pleased with the prospect for business. This is a form of government insurance which appeals mere to the self-respecting workman than the old-age pension plan which the mother country ha* adopted. Spinal anesthesia, that is. Insensibility to pain produced by the injection of a drug into the spinal tract, lias been receiving considerable attention lately from the activity of Doctor Jonnesco, a Roumanian surgeon, in using stovaine and strychnia for that purpose. These drugs, in connection, produce local insensibility to pain •without destroying consciousness. The Roumanian surgeon has been using them In London and in New York, to exhibit their effects, for the benefit of the medical profession. The medical papers do not agree on the safety or success of the anesthetic in all cases. Itt hope that further study may rs-