Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1910 — FACTS IN TABLOID FORM. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

A balloon’s life is about eighty flights. An English agricultural society ha* a sparrow extermination fund. Nearly thirty-nine thousand person* visited Shakespeare’s home In 1909. A ten-year-old clove tree will produce about twenty pounds annually. The dated sandwich is an innovation in the railroad station restaurant service. The number of foreign student* in the United States is constantly increasing. Nine of the eighteen expeditions in search of the south pole have been of English origin. Of all European countries, only Holland has a lower rate of. infant mortality than Great Britain. When telegraphs were first employed the speed of transmission was only four to five words a minute.

A Cincinnati man has patented an electric air heater for barbers’ use, compressed ajr passing through a cylinder containing a resistance coil. From- eight thousand to ten thousapd coal slack and pitch briquette* are manufactured and consumed in th* city of Belfast, Ireland, each year. Radio activity of minerals may be tested by their effect upon a photographic plate, which will show shadows of metallic objects placed between it and a specimen of uranium mineral. A building which, it is believed, holds the 'record in this country in antiquity as a Presbyterian church is still standing at Southampton, Long Island. Its erection was begun in 1707 and it was dedicated as a church in 1708. Bendigo, Australia, has started a reform movement to stop the chiming and striking of all-night public clocks, the city being moved thereto by Mme. Melba. The prima donna passed * sleepless night in Bendigo owing to the din of clocks and she has threatened never to visit the city again. The complaint has been discussed by the Bendigo city * council' and it wa* decided to silence the clocks from midnight tp 6 a. m. Switzerland has a total population of 3,500,000 and there are 1,384 periodicals in the country, or one publication to every 2,715 persons. Of th* publications giving special attention to news and politics, 472 are printed in German, 101 in French, 21 in Italian and but one in Romansch. Th* religious publications include 60 German Protestant, 40 French Protestant, 24 Catholic, 9 Missions, 2 Jewish and 3 Free Thought. The Swiss newspar pers have limited telegraph service, as compared with newspapers Id qther countries, but they are, as a rule, well edited.—Consular Report. At thifty-three Napoleon was eraon a foaming steed twenty miles, seized his retreating army and, hurling it upon Early, snatched victory out of the jaws of defeat, sending him, with his hosts, flying up the valley of the Shenandoah; Wolfe scaled the Heights of Abraham at Quebec, dispossessed the French of their possessions in Canada and gave two provinces to England; Correggio had produced his three world-renowned pictures, “The Assumption of the Virgin,” “Ecce Homo” and “The Penitent Magdalen”; George Stephenson mad* his first locomotive; Edison had harnessed electricity to the uses of man; Gray wrote his “Elegy"; Poe his “Raven,” and Thomas Jefferson the “Declaration of Independence." A fine cure for the whooping cough is made of offerings of hair, in Sunderland. The best way there ts to shave the crown of the head and hang the hair on a bush, or . small tree, preferably, and as the birds or wind carry away the hair, the cough will disappear. A still more potent remedy for whooping cough ts had in the Northumberland idea, which is that the cough can be cured by putting th* head of a live trout in the patient** mouth and letting the fish breathe into the latter. A still more strenuous way is to pass a hairy caterpillar through the mouth, after which the worm is to be put into a small bag and tied around the victim’s neck. The cough ceases when the caterpillar gives up this earthly life. Th* whooping cough is not so bad after all, is it?—Chicago Tribune. ' The statistics of trade and industry for the year recently closed, made public by the Canadian government, shows that Canada has recovered in a striking manner from the depression of two years ago. The bank clearing* reached the enormous total of $5,189,994,363, an Increase of 20 per cent over 1908, while the new buildings erected during the season approximate $60,000,000, a gain of $20,000,000 over the preceding year. Daring the year 190,000 immigrants entered the Dominion, of whom 90,000 came from th* United States, most of them with capital. In 1908 the immigrants numbered 151,009, of' whom 59,000 wero from the United States. The crop*, of the prairie province* yielded a total of 343,117,864 bushels of wheat, oat*, barley and flax, as compared with 243,206,915 In 1907. During the last ten year* Ontario has increased In population 447,000; Quebec, 450,000; Manitoba, 215,000; Saskatchewan and Alberta, 510,000; maritime provinces, 145,000, and British Columbia, 115,000, making the total population of Canada 7450,000.