Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1910 — FACTS IN TABLOID FORM. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

The velocipede was invented bV Drais In 1817. There are now 5,400 members of the London Stock Exchange. The facte are, the' glad New Year will probably turn out to be about the sdme old'thingNew York City has more electric meters than any other city In the world. There are 109,500 of them. New york City’s assessed real estate value is more than that of the entire States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. An average of thirteen persons a day who use £he railroads of the country for footpaths pay therefor with their lives. Several new Roman Catholic sees will be erected in the Philippine islands as soon as Their respective boundaries can be defined. For every man, woman and child in this country there is manufactured each week more than twelve pounds of finished iron and steel products. Imitation celluloid collars made of milk are the latest craze in Paris, according to Graham Place, a traveling salesman, who is on hiß way around the world. A new automatic gun, small enough to be carried in the pocket, will fire its projectile through half an inch of steel at 1,000 yards, its inventor claims. It is estimated that there are about 11,000 professional thieves in New York City. Those who steal only when the opportunity is offered have not been estimated.

Opinion of Paris says: "London Is still a shop and factory. Paris is a drawing room turned into a kitchen. Berlin is a kitchen turned into a drawing room.” When George Osborn, a jeweler of New Haven, Conn., took apart an old clock, brought to him to be repaired, he found $l5O in greenbacks tucked in the back of it r Japanese chopsticks are delivered to the guests in a decorated envelope. Tbs'-two sticks already shaped from one tonguelike piece of wood are broken apart toy the guest. The greatest hindrance to the development of Asia Minor is the absence of bridges at three points where the Euphrates is now crossed by ferries. It is now proposed to build bridges. The German navy, which in 1888 cost 53,000,000 marks, in 1890 cost 180,000,000; -in 1900, somewhat under 200,000,000; in 1908, 330,000,000; the budget for 1909 stipulates 411,400,000. An electric curling iron heater, in which a circuit is made with a resistance coil wheh a coin Is dropped in a slot, is a recent invention for use in hotels and other public places. Frederick the Great, wishing to humiliate -his physician, asked: “How many men, doctor, have you sent into the other world?” “Not nearly so many as your majesty,” was the retort, “but with infinitely less glory.” The women of the Methodist Episcopal church in the United States are reported to have collected and disbursed $1,200,000 for home and foreign missions during the last year. Besides this, they raised more than $2,000,000 to be expended by men’s boards. The Catholics have 16,255 clergymen, 3,000 more than the number of their churches. The Protestants have only 149,472 ministers, or 50,550 less than the number of their churches. This number of churches must either be without pastors or divide a man’s time. —Delineator for January. It becomes unlawful in Canada for a salesman or agent to allow secret commissions, rebates or considerations of any kind for the purpose of influencing or effecting sales of merchandise, under a penalty, upon conviction, of two years’ imprisonment or the imposition of a fine not to exceed $2,500, or both. Chicago’s mounted policemen are pleased with a new “anti-skidding” appliance they are now using on their horses to prevent slipping on the icy streets. The device is of leather and fits over the hoof like a boot On the bottom is a chain, which Insures' a more certain footing for the high-spir-ited animals.

Hamilton College has increased Its endowment by $400,000 in the last year; $200,000 of the amount was given by Andrew Carnegie in recognition of Ellhu Root’s service in aiding international peace. It is expected that the SIOO,OOO of the amount, given by the late John S. Kennedy, will be used to establish more freshmen scholarships. It is expected that aluminum coins of low value will be in circulation in France by the end of this year. The adoption of M. Naquet’s proposition for an aluminum coinage in 1871 would have resulted in a heavy loss to the French treasury. Although experts declared It to be impossible that the value of the metal should decrease, it has new fallen to nearly half the price ruling at that time. A rough estimate of the amount of money in circulation® throughout the world on Nov. 1 places the total at This includes gold, silver and uncovered paper. Gold comprises nearly half of the entire world’s currency. If it be estimated that about halt of the fresh gold produced from year to year goes Into the form of coined money there will have been approximately $400,000,000 added to the supply during the last two Finance.