Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1910 — SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

In Russia cigarettes are used more widely than cigars. The earth’s fertile area is estimated at 28,269,200 square mllets. Oklahoma has the greatest Indian population Of any of the states of this country, numbering 117^70. Though heat will make a solid or a liquid incandescent, it can only increase the pressure of a gas. Pure ground*coffee will not discolor cold water until it has been soaked for some time, while the addition of chicory as an adulterant will immediately impart a brownish hue. A new English safety oil lamp for miners is lighted without removing the protecting gauze by a platinum wire thropgh which a current of electricity is passed from a storage battery. A Californian has taken advantage of the fact that flies always walk up a window by inventing a trap to be fastened to a pane in such a manner that a fly Will enter it without being aware that it has left the surface of the glass.

One of the big Brazilian railroads has just completed a plan by which .it will send four of its mechanics to the United States every six months and put them at work in some of our big railroad shops, ho that they may become familiar with American methods. Rumors have been rife that the constitution of young Japan 46 degenerating year after year, says the Eibun Tsushinsha, but they are firmly denied by the authorities, who are of the opinion that according to the reports of the physicians of conscripts both constitution and weight are showing an up ward tendency on the whole, and there is not a bit of 'cause to justify the rumors.—Japan Advertiser. ' King Albert of the Belgians has the distinction of being the only royalty who has served an apprenticeship as newspaper reporter. For four years he was the regularly accredited marine reporter of a Belgian weekly, and in the pursuit of his duties traveled through most of the countries of Europe, visiting the ship yards. The Incentive behind it all is a deep interest in the maritime future of Belgium.— London Opinion. - Europe’s forest schools—at Chariot tenburg, Dresden and Elberfield, in Germany, also at Bristal Wood, near London—are attracting the interest of physicians and teachers. Charlottenburg school is situated in the midst of the pine woods, and the only protection ever offered is a mere roof in case of rain. No lesson periods are longer than 25 minutes, and much time is given to play. Five simple meals are served the children dally. At the opening of the Ruskin park extension, Denmark Hill, Mr. George Alexander said that in coming down he asked Mr. Severln what was Ruskin’s favorite game, and was told, “Battledore and shuttlecock.” Mr. Severen also told him fciat Ruskin believed in exercises that were useful, and when- at Oxford advised some ladies Who had given him a catalog of the various exercises they practiced that better than all would be to carry the coals upstairs.—Westminister Review.

Many amazing sounds have been heard in various parliaments, and it is not so very long ago that the barking of dogs, the mewing of cats and the quacking of ducks were upon occasion heard in our own house of commons. It is rather curious, therefore, that yesterday is said to have been the first time that the shout of "Pfui!” was raised in the Prussian chamber. It is a sort of combination of the Einglish “boo” and the French “Gonspuez!” and is singularly impressive. London Globe. Have you ever heard your blood? Have you ever put one of those large sea shells to your ear and heard what the children say is the .sound of the sea, the “music of the waves?” Well, that is really the sound of your blood —as it circulates—echoed in thie empty shell. You can hear it sometimes when your head Is on a pillow, but it does not sound so musical then. Try the shell at any time and you will find that your blood is always flowing. Stick your thumb in your ear and listen. That is nature’s way of constantly carrying the nourishment from well digested food to every part of your body.—New York Press. Experimenting with the boll weevil, a Texas farmer caught a lively one and placed it in water where it would freeze to death during the night. Next morning he found the water had frozen solid and the weevil was in the cake of ice, and the farmer congratulated himself on the discovery that cold would kill the weevil. But when the ice melted the bug walked around as lively as before freezing and tl-ra farmer is convinced that freezing is not the proper means to exterminate the insect. He threw the weevil into a hot fire, and at last accounts was watching to see if it would come out alive. —Centerville (Tex.) JefTersonian. “Any one wtih the price can do as Gaylord Wilshire did—go to Inyo county, California, and 'stand on a mountain of gold and silver 6re,” said a mining man. “Every one of my age in the business,” he continued, “knows about that mountain of gold and silver ore. The late Senator Stewart and exSenator Jones, both-of Nevada, spent millions trying to get gojd and silver out of that ore at a profit. That was the famous Panamint mine operation. Jones and Stewart and others lost every cent they put into that deal. The gold, and silver are there, sure enough, but the rock is ‘rebellious’ to a degree that the science of mill men and furnace men has never been able to overcome.”—New York Sun.

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