Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1910 — Topics of the Times [ARTICLE]

Topics of the Times

Rain falls on the eastern coast of Ireland about 207 days in the year. Boiled alligator flesh tastes very much like veal. It is much eaten 'ln India. London, in monetary value, is worth two and a half times as much as Paris. There are more medical schools and more physicians have received their education in Philadelphia than in any other city in the United States. Irishman (after waiting at the theater entrance for a long time on a cold night)—Shure, it’s myself wad sooner walk fifty miles than shtand five!—Punch. Information of all kinds regarding possible landing places for aerial craft is to be Issued in the form of a handbook by the Aerial League, Regent street, London. A German student preparing to be a doctor needs about $3,500 during the five years involved in medical training. At an English university the cost would be about $5,000.. Recent statistics of the German army show that neurasthenia is three and a half times as prevalent among the soldiers as it was a decade ago, while hysteria cases are twice as numerous. A French scientist has invented an apparatus for sterilizing water which passes in it in spiral tubes around a long mercury lamp, to utilize the bactericidal properties of the violet and ultra-violet rays.' From New Guinea comes a new orchid shaped like a cradle and found in a recent orchid hunting expedition in the island. The flower has a white margin, with reddish chocolate markings and a yellow lip. As a means to reduce the smoke evil the municipal authorities of Glasgow will hold an exhibition of gas heating, lighting and cooking appliances and appliances for the use of various sorts of smokeless fuel. Seventy-five per cent of the farmers of the United States plant their crops according to the moon’s phases, but scientific Investigation shows that potatoes planted in the “dark” of the moon are no better than others. A proposition Is on foot to establish in the ancient city of Palos, from which Columbus sailed to discover the new world, a permanent agricultural and industrial exposition to increase the friendly and commercial relations between the nations of America and Spain. " The value of machine guns was first exemplified in the Franco-Prussian war, the Boer war in South Africa confirmed the conclusions of the tacticians, and the Russo-Japanese war proved the correctness of their views. Since then all European nations have made machine batteries an essential part of their organization. Miss Kate Barnard, commissioner of charities for the state of Oklahoma, found the conditions so bad in the sanatorium for the insane at Norman, where state patients are kept under contract, that she forced the removal of the superintendent by the president of the sanatorium board. Miss Barnard is serving her first term as commissioner of charities. Dogs of all breeds at this year’s Birmingham show numbered more than 25,000. Great Danes were much the strongest section. Bloodhounds made a strong show, several having been sent from kennels of titled Englishwomen. Princess Toussoun, judge of the Pekinese spaniels, keeps her score of pedi greed pets and their puppies in elaborately furnished kennels, which cost her about $3,000 a year. Mrs. Emma Erskine Hahn of Stamford, Conn., president of the new Town and Country League, is planning a farm school for boys-modejed after the farm school for girls conducted by the Countess of Warwick, in England. Mrs. Hahn proposes to obtain a farm within one hundred miles of New York and to conduct it on the cottage plan, with house mothers In charge of each cottage, so that the boys will get as much home life and influence as possible. The age limits for the boys will be 7 and 14 years.