Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1910 — FACTS IN TABLOID FORM. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

Burglary and house 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 abqut half 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. In Ceylon the manufacture of -salt is a government monopoly, and yielded in 1908 1,760,661 rupees ($685,860) to the revenue. A translation of the Scriptures into modern Jdiomatic Spanish is being propared for use in Porto Rico, Cuba, Mexico and South America. Canada’s total railway mileage last July was 30,330 miles. This m»mnm that there is one mile of railway for every three hundred inhabitants. Thirteen whales valued at $43,000 were killed off the coast pf Korea durlng 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 SagbaUen, where the leaves average one foot In width and forty-five feet in length. Water thrown on the Ice of the arotic regions will crack It, Just as boiling water will crack's piece of glass. This Is because the ice 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 Mn Victoria, Australia, women cast more than 33 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 lakt year. Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt gave $1,000,000 for sanitary and Is supposed to have given half a million to a home for cripples at Chappaqua, N. Y. Mrs. Russell Sage gave $2,600,000 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 balls of one and one-eighth inches diameter, and I can testify to the, great satisfaction 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 hail, so giving that resistance to the cue which the small Ivory ball does not give.” In France experiments aA now being carried out using the aeroplane as an offensive weapon. In one such recent experiment the aviator flew to a height of 876 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 camp at Chalaie Meudon. Latham is said-to be fitting a rapid-fire gun to one of hie Antoinette machines. He believes as much of the steering can be done with the feet, he will be able to dim and fire the gun while flying. Inland waters may be put to m«ny uses; sometimes they are utilized as sewage outlets for great cities, sometimes they are converted into commercial highways, or they may become restricted because of (he reclamation of fertile bottom lands. All these may be good and necessary developmental 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 collection of antiquities and art objects. Probably the most valuable of the relics was a bumper of hammered which brought the top price at the sale, something mqre than SB,OOO. This piece has ever been knojjrn by connoisseurs the world over as the “Breslau tin bumper,” because It fb supposed to have been made in that city. It dates from about the year 1600, and Is octagonal In shape, its sides haring scenes from the lives of evangelists and other religious figures. It is one es 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 "lively cloth” to certain high officers of state end 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 be dangerous both to the king and tho laws, and the disorders In which they took part required all the vigor of the king and the legislature to restrain. Many statues for that purpose were passed between 187 T and 1694. In these prohibitions and exemptions were made of the members of guilds and fraternities Jp cities and boroughs. This probably explains the creation of "liverymen” In the various companies, And U supposed to be the origin of this annual gift of "livery cloth.”—London Daily 'Mows. - f t ’•oil