Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1910 — FACTS IN TABLOID FORM. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

London has 2,151 miles of streets and 390 miles of tramways. The harpy eagle of Brazil feeds exclusively on monkeys. Eighty-seven In every hundred Canadian fanners own their own farms. The eggs of wild birds are smaller than those of the same species of birds when domesticated. No fewer than «0,407 articles found In public carriages were last year taken to Scotland Yard, London. Of all places of Importance, Sydney, New South Wales, is farthest from London as the crow files—lo,l2o miles. St. Louis has a concrete building fifty-seven feet high, which is entirely without windows. The Illumination is by means of skylights In the roof. An Irish woman. Miss Lillian E. Bland, has designed and built for herself a biplane glider twenty-eight feet wide. Several satisfactory glides have been accomplished with the machine controlled from the ground by ropes. The engine and propellers will be" fib ted later. Use of tobacco is universal in the orient, and the word cheroot and its use come from Madras. The first cigars seen by Columbus were wrapped with corn shucks. Some Himalaya tribes take the leaf of the palassa and, with a cunning twist of the wrist, make the bowl and long, narrow stem of a pipe in the most perfect way. Miss Helen V. Carson of Bedford, la., has entered upon her second year aj superintendent of the high schools of Exlra, la. She was recommended by the Governor y of Colorado for the place and was just twenty-two when she was elected. She is said to do the work just as well as her masculine predecessor and to receive the same Balary.

It is estimated that there are 250,000 hives or colonies of bees in Switzerland, each of which produces forty pounds of honey during the season, a total of ten million pounds a year. The average price of Swiss honey for the year 1909 was 25 cents a pound, giving the year’s product a total value of 12,500,000, which is mostly profit, nature providing the raw material In an abundance of flowers. Hookha, the -bubble-bubble or Turkish water pipe, is always, being smoked by Burmese women, partly because they like It, hut mainly to supply the men with nicotine water. This hub-ble-bubble nicotine water habit is, in fact, a lazy form of tobacco chewing. A mouthful of the nasjy beverage is held in the mouth as long as possible. They carry about gourflß full of It, and claim It preserves tbelr teeth, and it may.—New York Press. In our army machine guns have been supplied from time to time, but only experimentally and not as an Intrinsic part of the army organization. The question has been studied, no doubt, by the general staff, but the definite organization and stfoply of this new arm has been postponed to make way for other more pressing considerations and also to profit by the experience of European nations before adopting any definite organization or tactics for this new but highly Important arm of the service.

Some English seem to think all meats coming in should be marked either “foreign” or “colonial” to show the buyer that be was not getting English meat. Every ’ one of the chief joints would have to be stamped, and the exporter would have to do the stamping. Further, the butcher dealing in “foreign” as well as English meat must Announce the fact on bis shop front, so that his customers may know he deals In both foreign and English meats. Some of the farmers complain that much foreign meat is passed off as English to bring down their prices. *Mob” is the only one of the abbreviated words protested against by Dean Swift which has conquered even the purists of speech. “Incog” is still short of respectability, and “phiz” (physiognomy) very far so. However, other abbreviated forms have won. A cabriolet is a “cab” to everybody now, though to Dickens’ Mr. Raddle it was still a “cabrioly.” “Mies” for “mistress,” “piano” tor "pianoforte” and “sweets” for “sweetmeats” are universal. Nevertheless, many people still apologize for "bus” instead of "omnibus” and wage a losing fight against “phone” and against "photo.” Consul Thomas H. Norton, of Chemnitz, tells of the Importance of the potato in the life of Germany. "The potato occupies a relatively more important position in Germany than In other European countries. It is not only employed largely for food for both man and beast, but also for conversion into starch and alcohol. The 1908 crop was estimated at 46,500,000 metric tons (61,256,950 short tone). 13,000,000 tons being used for human food and 19,000,000 tons for feeding .domestic ’ animals. Starch factories utiUzed 1.500,000 tons, distilleries 2,500,000 tons, while 5,600.000 tons were required tor seed." The proposed home for indigent southern women in New York has mat with such generous support on the part of northern women that the plana have been changed and widened!. Instead of building the home in Virginia, as was at Aral proposed, it has now been determined to erect It near New York and to open it to both northern and southern women. It is planned to conduct it along the lines of the Louies in. Washington, where President Tyler’s daughter spent heir fault days. The only restrictions will be that the inmates shall be of gentle birth and respectable. Mrs. Le Roy Broun is at the head of the committee -which la raising the necessary funds.