Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1910 — Deputy Auditor of White County After Money Overpaid on Ditch. [ARTICLE]

Deputy Auditor of White County After Money Overpaid on Ditch.

Barney Vogle, deputy auditor of White county, and Attorney Bushnell, of Monticello, were in Rensselaer Monday morning and took back home with them a draft for $2,643.39 which had been paid by that county in the Joseph Nesius ditch more than it should have paid. The ditch was a joint one between White and Jasper counties and the former County kept paying all the bills that were sent in until it had paid out the suin which should have been paid by Jasper county. But they had no thought of making us a present and as soon as they found it out they were “hot foot” to get it back, which of course, they did. A new wurtd*s record for a Iwopassenger flight in an aeroplane Was established in France yesterday by Daniel Kineal, when with another passenger, he jailed a biplane 102 miles in two hours and twenty mir-

Time was when the telegraph operfitcr whe could Bend four or uve words a minute was considered a wohder. The death records of the railroad* have been lessened hy the compulsory adoption of safety devices and systems. English trawlers claims that they got much better results when tney use a net which has been dyed a dark brown. . ►' Whalebone used to cost 35 cents a pound 50 years ago, but now it is worth about $5 a pound. A single whale may yield 3,000 pounds. India is a big country, but many will be surprised to know that quite 200,000,000 of her people are dependent on the soil for their existence. Concrete acquires compactness and ■eslstant powers when brought in contact with water until it attains its maximum qualities, which it holds indefinitely. Neptuue, which has been considered he cutside of the solar system, is now hcugbt to have a rival in a planet "inch is still farther away from us. ''ho theory of its existence is gained hrough the irregularities of Neptune’s ■rtit. The making of tin plate originated in Bohemia, hammered iron plates avlng been coated with tin there in 1600. Tin plate making was introduced Into England in 1665 and Into France in 1714. Tin plate was first made in Pitsburg in 1872. The Erie canal was begun in 1817 and finished in 1825, at a cost of $7, 200,900. The canal is now 70 feet wide at the surface and 56 feet at the bottom, with an average depth of seven feet. There are 57 double locks in It and 15 single ones, while the canal is 363 miles long. There are twenty battleships in our navy, the lowa, Indiana, Massachusetts, Oregon, Kearsarge, Kentucky, IL, lincis, Alabama, Wisconsin, Maine, Missouri, Ohio, Virginia, Nebraska, 'Georgia, New Jersey, Rhede Island, Connecticut, Louisiana, Vermont, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Idaho, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Michigan, Delaware and North Dakota. A big commission house is experimenting with telegrams instead of letrefs, and says the members can tend o business ccrrespondettce best with hurt messages, as it takes less time •o dictate them than letters, rrhlek •ave to be more or less formal an-' .rg. Some of the out-of-town cus om.ers get miffed and feel slighted at sharp letters. Again, farmerrd town merchants pay more alien a to short telegrams than to long .ers,—New York Press. Football is a game whose origin ( s back to the Danish invasion oi Ugland. In the year 982 the citizen he ter captured a Dane, and after eheacing him kicked his head about . ae city for- sport which proved so at ; active that it was repeated whenever <■_ Lead of an enemy could be got. In r r time.?, as it was not possible alays to obtain a man’s head for the rpese of entertainment, the shoe c; 3' of’ tire city were bound by .air charter to provide “a balle of ■athcr called a fcctballe, of the value i font shillingcs.” j Hcgge’s House, at Buxted, Sussex, 'ng., states a contemporary, the cen er of ■'the old iron district, was forteriy the residence of Ralph Hogge. *n ironmaster. He is celebrated as having been the first to cast a cannot onia piece. This riginally, big guns were hooped ant] angerous to manage. The worth? aercham’s discovery revolutionized he trade and brought him wealth and fame. Fis ancient home, embowered n trees, is still in good conation, well vorth seeing and quite close to the hurch. On its facade is a hog in bas relief,

“A martyr in. the cause of Italian liberty,” says the Rome Gazette, “re ently died in that city. Annibale Lucatelli was 85 years old. In the 50’s lie was active in many revolutions against the church, having been one Ls the ten hot heads who incited the revolt of 1851, which failed. His brother was executed, and he was sentenced to the bagnio for life. Together with- a number of colleagues he was pardoned in 1870, and received a professorship in the industrial museum, where he was known as King Humbert's personal friend.” - . - - ■ - - Among the latest vaudeville novel ties in Paris is a bicycle act which is referred to on the program as “the whizzing globe.” In a great Wire cage, globular in form and about 20 feet in diameter, a man sits, mounted on a bicycle. His wheel rests on a rim of narrow wooden slats whicn extend in a circle around the inside of the globe. The man pedals vigorously, and the globe, restlhg on an axle and free from the floor, is set in motion, the revolutions being in keepings with the rapidity cf the wheel on the inside. The show is not half over, however, when the man einerges and makes his bow, for in the second act another wheelman takes his place on the top of the, and, while the great cage is whizzing impelled by th’e bicycle rider inside, the man on top maintains his place the wheels of the machine spinning around tn harmony with the globe's motion.