Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1910 — QUEER STORIES [ARTICLE]

QUEER STORIES

In Spain the. old-style charcoal brazier is still in .use for heating purposes. Canadian housekeepers complain because general houseworkers want $9month instead of $6. On an average a man requires 1,600pounds of food per annum, a woman, 1,2Q0 pounds and a child 900 pounds. Just closed, the Yarmouth and: Lowestoft herring season has yielded. 800,000,000 herrings, which sold f0r.55,000,000. It is said that enough horse power goes to waste in the rivers and streams between Austin agd San Antonio, Tex.,, to run all the industries in the StateOwing to the rapidly growing population of Germany, especially in the Industrial cities and towns, and the relative scarcity of productive land,, the nation becomes each year more dependent upon foreign countries for its. food supply. Bagdad and Bassorah are excellent prospective markets for motor boats, and pleasure craft. The possible buyers, however, will pay no attention t<* catalogues, as they wish to sit in the boat itself, feel it go through the water and enjoy the noise made by the-' engine. In an outward-bound Boston car the other evening there was not a seat left. A woman entered and not & man noticed her standing, apparently. Finally one man rose from his seat and offered it to the woman. She thanked him, adding: "You are tha only gentleman in the car.” She was. startled by the answer, "Yer betcher, life I am, kiddo.” Dr. Jesson reports the astounding fact that out of a total of 100,00b> school children from the different German States, from 81 to 99 per cent were found to have diseased teeth and: that practically only 1 per cent haft normal, healthy mouths. The examinations of the teeth of the school children of the city <>f Berlin showed,, according to Dr. Ritter, that 90 per cent had defective dentures.