Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1910 — FACTS IN TABLOID FORM. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

The best time tor exercise is about two hours after a meal. More than 70,000 men are employed on the fishing fleet of Canada. Of the 300,000 Insane persona tm Russia,. 270,000 are at liberty. The widow’s mourning cap dates back to the days of ancient Egypt. In England nearly $10,000,000 is invested at present in roller skating rinks. When it comet to' barley crops, Russia leads, with the United States second. Eighteen per cent of the entire area of France, or about 23,000,000 acres, is forest land. It is a curious fact that the Romans in the time of the Caesars experienced much trouble with high buildings. A law was passed restricting the height to 60 feet. The removal of a' coat of paint on a canvas in a church at Winkel, Germany brought to light a valuable painting by Jan van Eyck’s pupil, Petrus Christus. Experiments are being made in Cuba in manufacturing paper fram sugar cane fiber. The paper is high grade, and cheaper than it could be made from wood pulp. According to the mortgage record, Manhattan island goes Ik debt, on real estate security, to the amount of SBOO,000 each day, but the dally payments keep the total at a lower proportionate level than it has ever been before. Cancer continues to increase in Britain. There are annually some 80,000 fresh cases, t The death rate rises from year to year. Some observers have noted that this rise coincides with the equally steady rise ih the standard of comfort. The king of the Belgians, the king of Portugal and the czar of Bulgaria ate distantly related to the English royal family, and the queen of Hoi-' land is the nieceAf the duchess of Albany, and therefore first cousin of Princess Alexander of Teck. Only the emperor of Austria, the king of Italy, the king of Servla, and the prince of Montenegro are without family connection with King Edward. Miss Amy F. Ching of China has just entered Wellesley college and is going through a course that will equip her to become a teacher in her native land. Her friends point to her as a self-made girl. She supported herself while taking a course hi the normal school of Honolulu, for which she prepared herself while earning her own living in her native land, and from two years' work as a teacher she saved enough to take her through Oahu college, from which she was graduated last summer. x At the University of Upsala there is a sound-proof room". By building it on platforms of thick cement and by constructing its walls of many thicknesses of felt, cork, asbestos and other bad conductors of sound vibration all sounds from outside have been eliminated. The room is so quiet that the beating of one’s heart or the creaking of one’s muscles is at once heard on taking up a position within its closed doors , and windows, and the only defect of it as a laboratory for acoustic experiments is that ventilation is absent and no one can remain in it for more than an hour at a time. Early settlers in Australia learned from the blacks the legend of the “bunylp,” a fearsome creature supposed to dwell in the swamps and to terrify beholders from time to time. Many appearances of this jpysterious animal have been reported, but in no case was the evidence satisfactory or conclusive. The latest story of the “bum yip” comes from the Black swamp, near Stawell, 70 miles from Melbourne. The dtrector of the Melbourne zoo went up and succeeded in Viewing the animal through a powerful field glass-' He pronounced it to be an unhsually large seal. The zoo authorities hav« offered S6O for its capture.

With everybody floeklng to see mi#i Marie Lohr In pajamas, let us chronicle the recent history' of the bedroom drama. Barrie began it, I think, with the bedroom scene and the pajama dance of the Twin in “Peter Pan,” Then came Mira Lena Ashwell’s “Diana of Dobson's,” the pretty fourth act of “The Woman in the Case,” with Miss Ellis Jeffreys beneath the counterpane, and a farce called ‘The Boys,” in which several damsels more or less disrobed in front of an embarrassed stalls and pit. Cyril Maude sported the classiest of pajamas In ‘Toddles,” and now passes the same Idea—l do not say the same garments—over to the beautiful Miss Lohr., Meanwhile, "The Bad girl of the Family” breathlessly announces two great bedroom scenes at every performance.—London Opinion. London is now considering a scheme for the better drainage of its streets that was first propounded by Benjamin Franklin .160 years ago—the Idea of a single gutter in the middle of the thoroughfare. “Here let me remark.” he wrote parenthetically amid the interesting details of his projejct, “the convenience of having but one gutter, running down the middle of the street. Instead of two, one on each side, near the footway, for where all the rain that falls on a street runs from the sides and meets in the middle it forms there a current strong enough to wash away all the mud it meets with, but when divided into two channels it Is often too weak to cleanse either, and only makes the mud it finds more fluid, so that the * * • carriages and horses dash it upon the foot pav* meat * • * and sometimes splash K upon those who are walking.”