Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1910 — QUEER STORIES [ARTICLE]

QUEER STORIES

A baby born amid the floods at Alfortville, Paris, has been named Moses. Attached to a tombstone in a Harlesden (England) undertaker’s shop Is a card which reads: “You may telephone from here.” A cent’s worth of electricity, at the average price In this country, will raise ten tons twelve feet high with a crane In lees than a minute. No coal is mined in this country lower than a depth of 2,200-feet, while several English mines penetrate 3,500 feet down, and there are mines in Belgium four thousand feet deep. Eight-inch seams of coal are mined commercially abroad, while few veins less than fourteen Inches thick are worked In this country. A woman who likes, to have flowers in her window but finds it impracticable to do so In the city has artificial ones painted on the glass. The windows are high up above the street and the flowers are In bright colors to enable them to be seen more easily. The apartment house in which the woman lives Is on Brbadway, and the effect of the art is very striking.—New York Sun. Montreal is said to be in*a bad sanitary condition. The water supply has been condemned In parliament, and the method of sewage disposal is far from satisfactory. A medical member of parliament declares that the Montreal water furnished on the cars of theTlhtercolonial railway, where alcoholic drinks' are not allowed, is a distinctly dangerous beverage, containing "disease and death.” Typhoid fever is prevalent ifi the city. The number of automobiles owned by farmers Is growing rapidly. Out of ten thousand autos In lowa, five thousand are owned by farmers. Kansas farmers spent $3,200,000 for automobile* during 1909, and $2,750,000 In 1908. In one Nebraska town of eight hundred population, forty autos were sold last year to farmers near the town and retired farmers in the town. Careful estimate of the number of automobiles owned by farmers.ln the entire United States Is 76,000. Corn grows In 120 days from its planting time. Out la the great corn belt, during, 1909, the corn farmers made the. ground give up', to them $16,000,000 every day of those 120. In other words, every day from the time the corn farmers put the seed in the ground, $15,000,000 were-poured into their laps until a grand total of $1,720,000,000 wis rolled up! All the gold and silver in the whole United State* to-day don’t equal to this corn crop of last year,—Travel Magazine.