Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1910 — SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY [ARTICLE]

SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

The Paris Louvre has more money at its disposal for acquiring new pictures than any other gallery in the world. The most expensive publication in New York, with the least income, is the City Record,'.which costs yearly 11,180,000. The Honduras monetary commission recommends the adoption of the gold standard. Practically no gold is circulated at present, but much is exported. , A motor boat invented by a Wisconsin man, and found practicable, is mounted, catamaran fashion, in two narrow hulls, which are kept filled with air. Hood shaped headgear has been devised for torpedo boat crews, affording protection for the eyes and shielding the ears from the wind caused by the high speed. When improvements now under way on the Trans-Siberian railroad are completed the distance from Paris to Pekin will be 6,300 miles, instead ol 7,500 miles, over the present line through Harbin and Mukden. The German army has sixteen machine gun batteries, which it has had for some time, and which there appears to be no tendency to increase. It may therefore be assumed that they are designed to fit out the divisions of cavalry which will be organized in the event of war, one for each divisipn. Gold is coined in Philadelphia and San Francisco. Not enough of it comes into the mint at New Orleans to make the coinage of it there worth whiles All three mints make every denomination of silver pieces. The minor coins of base metal, -cents and nickels, are all minted in Philadelphia, where nearly 100,000,000 pennies are turned out annually. For many years the University of Illinois has maintained a division of the chemistry department that 1? known as the division of applied chem istry. This division, under the direction of Professor S. W. Parr, is now gathering materials from all over the globe for a museum of industrial chemistry. In connection with the work of this department the chemical work for the engineering experiment station of the university atfd the Illinois geological survey ds carried on. The Orleans museum has just been enriched with a curious relic of the past which some workmen in making excavations in the city came across. It is a stone representing a grinning, figure, showing the teeth, the countenance being repellant enough. In this way the loquacious woman, the scandalmonger, was brought to her senses. The stone, suspended by a chain, was placed round her neck, and so accoutered she was compelled to walk round the town in which she lived. The store is supposed to date from the sixteenth century.—London Globe. “With the late achievement of Professor Reinhold Begas before us,” says a Writer in a Berlin paper, “we can readily understand that age is not always a bar to activity and that the Osier theory is defective. Begas has just completed the model of a lifesized, partially draped female figure, entitled ‘The Cancer.’ It shows a beautiful woman, pausing to rest after the dance. The work has been pronounced beautiful and highly artistic by sculptors, and they say that it will be still more so when seen in that marble, on which Albert Geritz is now engaged. Begas will be seventynine next July.”

London newspapers are telling; about Charles Phillips, who died In his 75-cent-a-week bunk in Whitechapel’s Rowtori house. In his pockets were $8 in cash and bank books showing deposits of $14,000. He always seemed hard up, and the inmates felt sorry for him when he borrowed pennies. He never paid any back. From the women he begged cups of tea. He would rise at 8 o’clock, spend 3 cents for breakfast, play chess until lunch, spend 4 cents for soup and 2 cents for bread and butter and tea, and then play ehess until bedtime. Nobody was ever able to learn a word about where he came from. His will leaves all to charitable institutions. Many diamonds which have been exposed to sunshine give out light on being placed in a dark room. When placed in a vacuum and exposed to a high-tension current of electricity, diamonds phosphoresce, or shine, with different colors. Mont South African diamonds, under these circumstances, exhibit a bluish light, while diamonds from other parts of the world shine with such colons as bright blue, apricot, pale blue, red, yellowish green, orange and pale green. In a lecture delivered Id London, Professor Grookes stated that one beautifbl green diamond in his collection, when phosphorescing in a good vacuum, gave almost as much light as a candle. The light was pale green, almost white. From time to time various colonies of Jews have actually returned to the Holy Land. There are records of Jewish settlements there as early as 1170, and In the sixteenth century the city of Tiberias, “where only Jews were to dwell,” was rebuilt. But It was not until comparatively modern times that the founding of regular colonies beOliphant and the Earl of Shaftesbury took definite shape In the purchase of seven hundred acres of land by the Jewa of Jerusalem and the foundation of the colony of Petah Tikwah. After the Russian persecution of 1881 large numbers of Jews emigrated and at the end of 1898 there were about five thousand Jewish colonists in Palestine