Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1910 — QUEER STORIES [ARTICLE]

QUEER STORIES

Paris has fifty thousand cases. The city of Winnipeg is literally built over a swamp. An aiderman of the city of London holds office for life. In London fresh fish during the Tudor period was a luxury for the rich, beyond the means of the poor. The loss from wear and tear and shipwreck of precious metals has been estimated at two tons of gold and one hundred tons of silver yearly. Counterfeiting is still a considerable Industry in Calabria. It is good form in Naples to bite all silver coin before accepting it in payment or in change. Mr. Justice Darling, referring to' illnesses contracted by kissing microbeladen Bibles, remarked: “It is my opinion that a large number of people who commit perjury are punished in no other way.”—London Opinion. Lord Sandwich, when minister of state, having passed twenty-four hours at a public gaming table, was so absorbed in play that he had no subsistence but a bit of beef between two slices of bread. Hence the origin of an article of food which has entered into the daily life of all of us.—London Opinion. Miss Sophie Wright has been declared New Orleans’ best citizen and her bust has been presented to the state of Louisiana by he? former pupils. She is the principal of the Home Institute, which she founded and for many years conducted without assistance as a night school for poor children. It was the first night school in New Orleans and is now one of the most flourishing institutions of its kind in this country. A device for signaling to military balloons at night has been fixed on the tower of the railway station at Spandau. It consists of a large horizontal wooden ring provided with thirtyeight electric incandescent lamps. Such lighthouses with Intermittent lights for aerial navigation are also to be erected at Nauen and Potsdam. Experiments have recently been made with the intermittent lights on the tower at Spandau.—Berlin Lokal-An-zeiger. When Edward Payson Weston isn’t traversing the continent on one of his long walks he spends much of his time daily in the office of a Broad street broker. Next to walking, stocks is his great hobby, and his knowledge of the way of Wall street is only second to that of the science of pedestrlanlsm. Mr. Weston has made practical use of his Wall street knowledge many times and It Is said- that he has been more than ordinarily successful.—New York Sun.