Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1910 — THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW [ARTICLE]

THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW

Canada will be largely Represented In the International hunting exhibition to be held this in Vienna. Electricity has supplanted gas for lar lighting in nearly all the state Railways ot Italy, Switzerland and Denmark. Since 1878 there have been 19,121 iremationa in Germany. In the United States in the last year alone there were 34,500. A Roman tomb of the second century before Christ, containing a marble Sarcophagus of exquisite workmanship five feet long and admirably preserved, has been discovered at Groseeto. Professor Herdman, lecturing at the British Royal Institution, and describing how to tell the age of a fish, said the lines on the scales of the herring »re lines of annual growth. The number of lines on the bones are another Indication. When a widow in Oklahoma needs the wages her eon of school age might earn the stdte pays the mother the amount and ’ the boy continues in school. The women of Oklahoma are now trying to have the same law passed for daughtere. . Cape Cod figures that she produced last year about 350,000 barrels of cranberries out of the 550,000 produced in the whole country. Let Cape Cod furnish the cranberries to the people and she cares not who provides the turkeys to go with them. —Boston Globe. A St. Louis woman is advertising for pure buttermilk. The advertleer recites that no dairyman need apply. She says she has tried all the dairies in St. Louis and has been half around the world in a vain search for buttermilk of the good old-fashioned kind churned in the good old-fashioned way, wtih little pieces of butter floating around in it.

The Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Italy announces another arctic expedition. The leader will be Baldwin, the leader of the arctic expedition of 1901-1902. He proposes an exploration of the polar regions and to reach the pole. He proposes to follow the route taken by Nansen 1 In- the Fram. It id proposed to spend four years altogether In the search. Dr. Sophie Herzog of Brazoria, Tex., Is said to be the only woman railroad Burgeon in the world. She Is a native of Austria, came to this country In 1886, studied medicine and surgery end for nine yeans after graduation practiced medicine In New York. Soon lifter moving to Texas her work as a Burgeon attracted the attention of the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexican railroad, and she was appointed surgeon for the road. , Professor Arioing, director of the Veterinary school at. Lyons, France, maintains he has perfected a method of successfully . protecting cattle against tuberculosis. He employs vaccines obtained by special cultural processes from certain kinds of bovine bacilli. These vaccines are Introduced into the cattle either by the mouth, by intravenous Injection or by sub cutaneous Injection. Intravenous injections appear to be the most effective. At a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, Professor Chauveau confirmed Professor Arloing’s claims. Australia is looming as a wheatproducing and cattle-breeding country. The 1909-1910 season, it is estimated, will eclipse all former records. Jn Victoria the output of wheat is estimated at 25,000,000 bushels, while South Australia will produce 20.000,000 bushels, and New South Wales 26,000,000. Including miscellaneous sources of supply on the Australian continent, the total harvest is expected to yield 78,000,000 bushels, of which 50,000,000 bushels will be available for export. Prices of cereals being high, in addition to a record crop as to weight, the growers will receive a larger profit than usual. .... Much human hair Is sent from Prague to America. It is collected by hair merchants, regularly licensed, who make tripe through the country, going from house Co house to induce peasant women and girls to part with their tresses. The' price paid depends upon the length of the hair and the color, principally the latter. The entire head of hair is not sold at one time, usually but one braid being disposed of at once, leaving the other to be cut off about four years later. The price paid for braids varies from $2 to s2l each. Prices paid by the pound vary from $11.60 to $80; the latter pnlcs being paid for blond or gray hair, tanging from 24 to 28 Inches in length. All of the native hair is shipped in its natural state, without being bleached or dyed. The estimated annual exports are 13,000 pounds. —Consular Reports.

Muscat is famed as the hotbed of smugglers la the Persian gulf, the nearby desert tribes being regularly supplied with arms despite the efforts of the British patrol. But to the writer, reared on a Missouri farm, the odd antics of the cows of Muscat seemed nothing short of freakish. They actually eat fish. No grass grows, so the wily Arab teaches his family cow to subsist on dates and dried fish J The milk tastes queer to a foreigner, which is probably why the Arab likes it. He also claims, it is richer and makes more butter, but most ridiculous of all is -tha dreeption practiced ma cow# when the calves are "weaned.” A calfskin, or sometimes a goatskin, la stuffed with rags and tied not far from where the mother cow is anchored. This effigy of her late lamentad offspring soothes her nerves and keeps her from "going dry,” accord lag to Arabic tradition. —San Francisos Chronicle.

Tiny Baby’a Pitiful Case. “Our baby when two months old was suffering with terrible eczema from head to foot, all over her body. The baby looked just like a skinned rabbit. We were unable to put clothes on her. At first it sfiemed to be a few mattered pimples. They would break the skin and peel off, leaving the underneath skin red as though It were scalds. Then a few more pimples would appear and spread all over the body, leaving the baby all raw without skin from head to foot. On top of her head there appeared a heavy scab a quarter of an inch thick. It was awful to see so small a baby look as she did. Imagine! The doctor was afraid to put his hands to the child. We tried several doctors’ remedies but all failed. “Then we decided to try Cuticura. By using the Cuticura Ointment we softened the scab and it came off. Under this, where the real matter was, by washing with the Cuticura Soap and applying the Cuticura Ointment, a new skin soon appeared. We also gave baby four drops of the Cuticura Resolvent three times daily. After three days you could see the baby gaining a little skin which would peel off and heal underneath. Now the baby is four months old. She is a fine picture of a fat little baby and all is well. We only used one cake of Cuticura Soap, two boxes of Cuticura Ointment and one bottle of Cuticura Resolvent. If people would know what Cuticura is there would be few suffering with eczema. Mrs. Joseph Rossmann, 7 St. John’s Place, Ridgewood Heights, L. 1., N. Y., Apr. 30 and May 4, 1909."