Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1910 — FACTS IN TABLOID FORM. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

Burglary and bouse breaking are on the decrease in London. The sick list of the London police force averages five hundred men every day. The average height of a wave in feet is about halt the velocity of the wind in miles. The pay rolls of the enlisted men in the navy during 1911 will aggregate nearly >18,000,000. Fishguard promises to supplant Queenstown as a stopping place tor transatlantic passenger vessels. Ceylon the manufacture of salt la a government monopoly, and yielded in 1908 1,760,551 rupees (>585,850) to the revenue. A translation of the Scriptures into modern idiomatic Spanish is being prepared for use in Porto Rico, Cuba, Mexico and South America. Canada’s total railway mileage last July was 30,330 miles. This means that there is one mile of railway for every three hundred inhabitants. Thirteen whales valued at >43,000 were killed off the coast of Korea during the first part of November by the Oriental Whaling Company of Japan. The sea kale used as food in China comes largely from the coast of Sagh*lien, where the leaves average one foot in width and forty-five feet in length. Water thrown on the ice of the aretic regions will crack it, just as hailing water will crack a piece of glass. This is because the lee is so much colder than water. Fears that the sea will soon become depleted of food fish if the operations of steam trawlers are not restricted, is not sustained by experience in the North Sea for the last ten years. In the recent parliamentary election in Victoria, Australia, women cast more than 38 per cent of all the ballots polled. This was the first election in which women were allowed to vote for members of the state parliament.

Miss Helen Gould gave $150,000 to the Girls’ College in Constantinople last year. Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt gave $1,000,000 for sanitary tenements, and is supposed to have given half a million to a home for cripples at Chappaqua, N. Y. Mrs. Russell Sage gave $2,500,000 to schools and colleges, $300,000 for the relief of aged women and SIBO,OOO for an industrial home at Lawrence, L. I. Writing on billiard playing, a Chicago News correspondent- says: “It has been my pleasure to play frequently on a miniature table—three feet by one foot six Inches—using steel halls of one and one-eighth Inches diameter, and I can testify to the great gatto faction these games have given. The balls, being of steel and having greater solidity than ivory or composition, have a playing weight approximating to that of the full sized billiard ball, so giving that resistance to the cue which the small ivory ball does not give.” In France experlments are now be-ing-carried out using the aeroplane as an offensive weapon. In one such recent experiment the aviator flew to a height of 375 yards with a gun mounted on the aeroplane. According to one report, a new type of aeroplane, carrying two or more machine guns, is being tested in the eamp at Chais fa Meudon. Latham is said to be fitting a rapid-fire gun to one of his Antoinette machines. He believes that, as much of the steering can be done with the feet, he will be able to alm end fire the gun while flying. Inland waters may be put to many uses; sometimes they are utilized as sewage outlets for great cities, sometimes they are converted into commercial highways, op they may become restricted because of the reclamation of fertile bottom lands. All these may be good and necessary developments, says Science, or any one of them may be obviously best under the circumstances; but in promoting any such schemes due regard should always be paid to the importance and promise of natural waters as a perpetual source of cheap and healthful food for the people of the country. There was recently sold at auction in Berlin the celebrated Lana cojlectlon of antiquities and art objects. Probably the most valuable of the relics was a bumper of hammered tin, which brought the top price at ttie sale, something more than $8,900. This piece has ever been known by connoisseurs the world over as the “Breslau tin bumper,” because it is supposed to have been made in that city. It dates from about the year 1500, and is octagonal in shape, its sides having scenes from the lives of evangelists and other religious figures. It is one of the finest specimens of hammered metal ware extant—Harper’s Weekly. Following an ancient city custom, the' corporation has recently made presents of what is called "livery doth” to certain high officers of state and public officials. The custom is thus explained: In the early periods of history the retainers of great lords wearing their liveries were so numerous as to Us dangerous both to the king and the laws, and the disorders in which they took part required all the vigor of the king and the legislature to restrain.* Many statues tar that purpose were passed between 1877 and 1504. In these prohibitions and exemptions were made in favor of the members of guilds and fraternities in cities and boroughs. This probably explains the creation of “liverymen” in the various companies, and is supposed to be the origin of thia annual kift of "livery doth."—London Daily Nows,