Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1910 — FACTS IN TABLOID FORM. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

Ireland’s highest apple product does not exceed fifty thousand barrels per annum. Canada was formally ceded to England by the treaty of Paris, signed - on Feb. 10, 1763. A baby walrus of six months will eat about fifty pounds of codfish in the course of a day. Our coal shipments to Canada jumped one million dollars last year over the preceding records. A bushel of barley yields fifteen gallons of beer in Great Britain, and twenty-five in Germany. In the Belgian parliament there is an age minimum of twenty-five for deputies and forty for senators. ery 1,380 Inhabitants. Kansas is next with one bank for every 1,500 people. In one hot day last summer no fewer than nine thousand persons made use of one of New York’s public baths. In New York during the close times in 1907, 72 per cent of the collateral used as the basis of clearing house certificates was commercial paper. A London company has spent $500,000 in advertising in the last twentyfive years. This great campaign was launched by the expenditure of SSO. Difficulty is being experienced by Japanese banks in finding employment for their deposits. The First Bank is said to have 8,600,000 yen ($4,300,000) lying idle and the Mitsui Bank 7,200,000 yen ($3,600,000). The first trust in the United States to pass the $100,000,000 mark in capitalization was the United States Leather Company, organized-in 1893. Its capital stock combined with an issue of bonds amounted to $138,000,000. According to the Pekin Daily News, the Chinese ministry of the interior intends to make investigations concerning the prohibition of early marriages, which it considers to be attended with evil results. The age may be fixed at 20. In point of commercial value, the silver product of the United States last year was the smallest since 1871. Mint bureau figures give the gold value of the 53,849,000 ounces fine produced in 1909 as $28,010,100, making the price 52.016 cents an ounce. A new method of preserving flour has recently been adopted with success in England. It is done by means of compression. With hydraulic apparatus the flour is squeezed into the ~ forms of bricks, and the pressure destroys all forms of larval life, thus preserving the flour from the ravages of Insects, while it is equally secure from mold. Three hundred pounds of compressed flour occupy the same bpace as one hundred pounds in the ordinary state. A modern highway 275 miles long through the “short grass country,” in western Kansas, would not only prove an illuminating object lesson for the entire State, but for all the country as well. The people of Western Kansas have started a movement to afford the world just that object lesson in road building. From Newton to the Colorado line it is proposed to construct a continuous boulevard along the Arkansas river and call it “The New Santa Fe Trail.” —Kansas City Times.

Plongastel-Daolas Is a little Breton community In which marriages are celebrated but twice a year on “the day of the kings” and “the day of tho great indulgences.” On Jan. 11, twen-ty-eight couples wearing the costumes of their ancestors were married at a single ceremony by a venerable priest. On going from the ceremony the husbands were given much drink. Tho brides, turning up their skirts to escape the mud, ran to give a last look at the pullets destined for the wed* ding feast.—Le Crl de Paris. The latest step In conservation Is the introduction of a bill by Delegate Wickersham, of Alaska, providing for a national coal reserve. The principle is that of the national forests. Ho suggests that Congress set aside in perpetuity a national coal reserve of fifteen thousand acres of the best coal bearing lands In Alaska, a board of three experts being appointed for that purpose. This national coal reserve may be augmented by the recovery of private coal lands, obtained improperly or fraudulently from the United States Writing in Science on Dr. Nlshlkawa, whose recent death Is announced. Professor Bashford refers to this Japanese savant’s remarkable discovery of a process of making perfectly spherical’ pearls. The usual pearl, owing. to the method of growth, is only hemispherical. Dr. Nlshikawa was a member of the imperial fisheries bureau in Toklo, and during the last ten years of his life made a special study of pearl production. As a result pearl oysters, which had secreted spherical pearls were recently exhibited at the University of Toklo. One of the great banks of the old world Is the State Bank of Russia, but this Institution differs very greatly from the banks of England, Ireland, Germany and France and many other of the great banks of the world from the fact that it Is owned entirely by the Russian government. ‘ This bank receives and distributes the entire revenue of the Russian empire. It was founded in 1860. The capital is fixed at 50,000,000 rubles. (Ruble equals 51.5 cents). The bank's head is at St Petersburg, though it has about one hundred branches. Tho limit of its currency issue is 100,006/* 000 rubles In excess of tho gold on hand.