Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1910 — FACTS IN TABLOID FORM. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

m Nparly two hundred million peopls In India" are dependent on agriculture for their living. Seven years ago there were two thousand students in China, and in 1907 there were 175,852. In the last ten years 325,000 peopli have emigrated from England and become Canadian farmers. Boys over 14 years of age and gtrl» over 12 may m&rry in Scotland with out the consent of parents or guard lans. Twenty tons of ostrich feathers, valued at more than 8500,000, were recently carried by the Mauretania to New York. The Koh-i-noor . diamond .originally ■weighed feight hut by successive cuttings has been reduced to 106 karats. * Sanitary conditions in Berlin have eo improved in thirty years that the average life of a citizen is now nine years longer than it was then. It is tow 38. At the end of the last fiscal year In the United States 278 life-saving stations had been established, of which more than two hundred were on the Atlantic and gulf coasts, sixty-one on the coasts of the Qreat Lakes, seventeen on the Pacific coast and one on the Ohio River at Louisville, Ky. More than six hundred persons are numbered In the crews and there were 838 disasters in whi<jfa the service took an active part.

According to a section of the amphitheater in King Arthur’s round table field in Monmouthshire, England, ,has been partially exhumed. The Archaeological Society has made five excavations around the walls and the searchers found the main entrance, the sand which formed the bed of the arena, and a corner stone. From Inscriptions on the stone they trace the date of the theater back .to 110 A. D.. or eighteen hundred years. At the Court Theater at Darmstadt a Christmas play in five acts, entitled "Bonifacius,” was performed a few weeks a«o. The plot is laid In the Black Forest; the time the eighth century. The subject treated Is the conversion of the heathen by St. Boniface. The play was well received and It now becomes known that the author, on the bills as E. Mann, is the grand duke of Hesse, who is hailed by the German press as the latest recruit to the ranks of royal dramatists. The year 1909 will always be remembered a§ the year,ln which the effort to maintain finished steel prices collapsed, but in the light of |he history'since made it will be well to remember that the year is also conspicuoua as witnessing a healthy and reasonable reaction toward fair prices with an absolutely open market, but with a spirit of fairness and good will pervading the trade which never before existed under similar outward conditions.—lron Trade Review. } There is no incident of Christmas benevolence within our knowledge-of such far-reaching scope for future good as the gift of Henry Phipps to the University of Pennsylvania In furtherance of his plans for the study, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis. Mr. Phipps, who has now ex* pended 93,000,000 with a view to the extirpation of this most destructive of maladies, has made sure of the future effectiveness of bis object by putting its direction in charge of a capable Institution already organized to make the most competent; use of the weapons placed in its hands.—Philadelphia Record.

Nearly one million new farms have been created in the United States during the last ten years. In the last ten years the total number of farms has increased 18 per cent. In the oldeT States, from Ohio eastward, there has been going on for twenty years a tendency toward the amalgamation of farms distant from market into larger holdings. On the other hand, this section has witnessed the cutting up into smaller sizes of many farms nearer to market. There are now almost three times as many farms as in 1870, and an unprecedented increase in the value of farm lands and live stock.—American Agriculturist.

In India such surnames as these ajw frequent: Tilak (a caste mark on the forehead), Plyarl (beloved), Chh Kouri (six little shells), Longai (a clove), Kurbanl (sacrifice), Moti (pearl), Suraj (sun)% Kharg (sword), Bali (strong), Phul (flower), Bahadur (brave). There sometimes they give their children bad names so that evil spirits will pass them by and not harm them, thinking they are worthless—«s Bhikarl (beggar), Bhangl (scavanger), Chuha (rat), Gobar (cow dung). ■- I know a high caste family who lost several children infancy. When the fduryt wag born they called him Bhangl,v and bh* v lived. They attribute his'life to the' name they ghvir 1 him.—Muzaffarpur Christian Advocate. 1 Some people believe that the banana was the origugtl forbidden fruit of the garden of Eden. In any case, it is one of the curiosities of the vegetable l kingdom, being not a tree, a palm, a hush, a shrub, a vegetable o ran herb, but a herbaceous plant with the status of a tree. Although it sometimes attains a height of thirty -feet, there la no woody Ibe r In any pari of Its structure, and the bunches growing on the dwarf banana plant are often heavier than the stalk which supports them. No other plant gives puch a quantity of food to the acre as the banana; it 1 yields forty-four times more by weight than- the potato and 133 times more than wheat. Moreover, no insect will attack it, and It is always immune from disease of any kind.