Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1910 — SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY [ARTICLE]

SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

The feathers of the wild ostrich are superior to those from farm birds. The cranking of an automobile may now be done from the chauffeur’s seat. Tbe maximum wage of brakemen on English railways has just been fixed at $7.78 a week. Peanut cake seems to be supplanting cotton seed cake as tbe preferred food for Swedish cattle. Vacuum suction combß are now in use in Btables to curry horses. An electrically driven fan produces the necessary vacuum. In Liberia coffee trees attain a height of more than twenty feet. The price of the product is 8 and 9 cents a pound at the plantation. At one Of the most important groceries in Hamburg they think they are doing well to dispose of thirty to forty pounds a month of sweet potatoes to resident Americans. —-~ American cranberries sell at 16 to 20 cents a quart in London. Outside of tbe metropolis there is small demand for the succulent berry in England, largely owing to an imperfect comprehension of the means of making it palatable. About sixty or seventy barrels each season are consumed In Paris, where the retail price is 35 cents a pound. That people will eat elephant meat with a relish has been proved by butcher in Frankfort-on-the-Main, to his own profit and without the knowledge of his customers. This enterjgrlslng tradesman learned that a vicious elephant was to be killed and made a bargain for the carcass. Within a few days that elephant was transformed into 3,800 pounds of sausage meat and every pound was disposed of at a good price. It was a year ago that the London post office directory contained for the first time among the list of trades “aeroplane manufacturers.” There was only one then, but now six are enumerated under that heading. Subsidiary trades are springing up. Two firms announce themselves, as aeroplane engine manufacturers, two are aeroplane fabric makers and there is one propeller maker, as well as a provider of “aeroplane timber and bends.” Whltefleld, one of the founders of Methodism, who died in 1770, was a strenuous preacher. His usual program was forty hours’ solid speaking each week, and this to congregations measured in thousands, but he often spoke sixty hours a week. This was not all. for “after his labors, instead of taking rest, he was engaged in offering up prayers and or in singing hymns, as his manner was; in every house to which he was invited.”

Is a woman ever justified in poisoning hes husband? The question is suggested by a recent incident in Servla. Sara Chumitch seems to have had an undesirable husband, for he was a notorious and implacable usurer. At the moment when he was about to ruin soveral families who were in debt his wife intervened and poisoned him. Next day she received a letter of gratitude, signed by hundreds of cLtizens. She was acquitted by the Jury and left the court amid cheering crowds. Says the Pekin and Tien-Tsin Times: “A novel sort of crime was discovered by the Tien-Tsin police when a portly native was arrested and asked to explain his embonpoint. He had a thieves’ bag around his waist, filled with dead cats to the number of seven, One of them, a very fine'specimen of the tortoise shell, was still quite warm. In a smaller bag was found the lure; it consisted of bits of dried fish treated with some deadly poison. The man utas sent up to the yamen, where he received thirty blows and one month’* Imprisonment.” Ernesto Nathan, Mayor of Rome, who declined on several occasions to accept a decoration from King Victor Emmanuel, was finally forced by a clever ruse on the part of the king to take the grand cross of the crown of Italy. Nathan was making a call at the Qulrlnal, and when about to depart was asked to take from the queen a little parcel to his wife. The box contained the decoration, which the mayor was compelled to accept, and by virtue of which he became a member of the small fraternity oi which his sovereign is the head. Although the use of telephones in miqes is not of recent origin, the advantages are, perhaps, hardly really appreciated until they have once been alried. Probably at no time in the history of mining has there been a greater demonstration of the great need ol telephones in mines than at the Cherry coal mine disaster. How many more lives could have been saved had the mine been fully equipped with telephones is entirely problematical, but it is certain that the number would have been greater had opportunity been afforded for communication between the rescuers and the entombed men.—Philadelphia Record. Employes of the Krupp works pan easily be distinguished, even when at tired In their Sunday best. Every workman, on his enrollment, is presented with a curiously fashioned scarfpin, composed of a miniature artillery shell made of platinum and set in silver. After twenty years’ service he receives a second pin, modeled on the same lines and mounted in gold. The higher grades of employes, including the engineers and those employed in the counting house, wear their shells in the form of sleeve links. The workmen are very proud of the distinction, which they call the Order of the Shell, and wear on every occasion.