Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1910 — THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW [ARTICLE]

THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW

Twenty million falße teeth are sent to England from this country evert year. The fur trade of the world makes use yearly of more than one million catskins. In fifty-four cases out of every hundred the left leg is stronger than the right. Major Alfred Dreyfus now spends his leisure hours in the study of the social problems. In the Swedish province of Smaland there is a hill 46(> feet high, which consists entirely of iron ore. The area Is figured to be 2,800,000 square’ feet. In Ceylon the largest pearls are sold for never more than ?300, but when they rpach the great markets of the world they are worth more than three times this price, : The freight tunnels of Chicago will be used for a great telephone company to enter the field in competition with the present companies. The new company will start with 20,000 instruments. Dr. Lepage, the eminent Brussels surgeon, has sent in his bill for $20,000, his fee for the operation performed on King Leopold a few days before the king’s death. The operation Is said to have lasted (Ally ten minutes. Discoveries of great archaeological Importance are being made near Santa Victoria (Cagliari) in Sardinia, whither many experts are now bound. The ruins of an entire town have been excavated and numbers of artistip objects have been recovered, all of which suggest that the remains are those of a town of the bronze age. King Victor has subscribed 300,000 lire toward the excavation funds. An interesting discovery has been made in boring the tunnel of Rlon, on the Puy-Langogne line. M. Ester, one of the firm of contractors carrying out the work, has discovered embedded In the Aay at a distance of thirty metres the fossil of an animal believed to belong to the stag family, which is believed to have lived In the Pliocene period. The remains have been placed in the museum"at Puy. "Oh, yes,” said the waiter, "people do sometimes order queer combin'atlons. Any mpn,” the waiter said, with some emphasis on tfie “any” as he handed over the check, "any man Is liable to do that sometimes.” And then this man who had been seeking information about odd things reflected that he had himself just taken for luncheon sausages, wheat cakes and a milk shake. —New York Sun. Before the customer paid his Mil the hotel stenographer tore several, pages out of her note book and handed them to him. “Only the notes of his letters,” she. said to the next customer. “He Is one of the cautious kind. There are not many like him. About once in six months somebody comes along who keeps such a watchful eye on his ((correspondence that he won’t even let* stenographer keep his notes. Of course It Is nothing to us, and we always give them up when asked to. I don’t know what the cautious folk do with them. Destroy them, maybe. Anyhow, there is no record of foolish utterances left In the stenographer's books.” New York Sun. M. Auguste Bodin, the famous French sculptor, who Is said to have Invented a new kind of “dance,” which Is performed by various extraordinary motions of the hands, did not show any signs of artistic ability in child-, hood. He was the son of poor parents, and first earned his living by modeling in plaster for an architect. He was 22 before his first statue, “The Man with the Broken Nose,” was executed. He used a stable as a studio and was so poor he had the greatest difficulty In providing material for his work. The first statue was so realistically done, however, that the judges at the Paris salon accused him of having cast It from a living model. —Tid-Blts. A N6w York woman just Back from Europe tells this story: "At Bad-Nau-heim a physician told her that he had recently had an American from the “far west” under treatment, who grew better under his care and was finally told that nothing more could be done for him. The family was about to depart, when the young daughter became ill and the same physician was called In. After a week’s treatment he told the parents that the child’s ailment was nervousness and nostalgia. “Take her Ifome and she will be all right.” “If she has nostalgia,” said the mother, “give me the name of some European expert and we will have her cured. I have no faith -In our home physicians.” Norway is a country of vast mineral wealth. The richest iron mines are situated in the northern part of the country, as well as in the TrondhjemBkd. It has been calculated that the mines at Sydvarager contain 000 tons, and that the yearly production will be 600,000 tons. Operations on mines will probably commence next summer. The work at the Dunderslandsdalen mines has. been stopped for some time, but it will be resumed in the near future, when the Swedish method of treating the ore will be employed, with the hope that the works will produce 1,000,000 tons a year. It is estimated that the nglnes in the Tromso district contain about 30,000,000 tons of ore. Machinery h£3 lately been erected in these mines. The yield will be about 200,000 tons per annum. Several pther mines in the north indicate abundance of Iron ore. ...