Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1910 — QUEER STORIES [ARTICLE]

QUEER STORIES

Diamonds . are almost perfectly transparent to X-rays. A Violet Cross League has been formed In Paris with the object of suppressing swearing. The great North Sea fishing ground known as the Dogger Bank, is estimated to yield an annual Income of 13,000 a square mile. ' There is an inmate'in the Colchester workhouse, England, who Is 96. years of age, one who js 92, twenty-one between 80 and 90 and fifty-three between 70 and 80. - A Jock of Napoleon’s hair, cut by his servant on May 31, 1811, at the Hotel de Lorz', Brussels, was sold recently for $4 at Stevens’ auction rooms, Covent Garden, London. The average speed of a homing pigeon in calm weather is 1,210 yards a minute. With a strong wind in tho direction of flight, some pigeons have made 1,980 yards, or more than a mile £ minute. The University Qf Cincinnati, through Dean Herman Schneider, has originated a plan of co-operative industrial education, whereby a student studies one week in the university and then works one week in shop or factory. The Rev. T. G. Wyatt, vicar of Hay. wards Heath, England, has promised to present half a the price of a pair of boots, to every member of the local company of the Church Lads’ Brigade who joins tfie territorials. The Association of Collegiate Alumnae, composed of more.than five thousand members in various cities, is about to test the law of heredity by an Investigation of its own membership and antecedents for three generations or more. ‘Certain negro characters gre* of a highly evolved type,” said Professor Arthur Keith in- a Hunterian lecture at, the' Royal College of Surgeons in London, “and I have a suspicion that some of the negroes of the Congo Free State had an old civilization which flourished whan Britons were in a primitive state.'*