Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1910 — SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY [ARTICLE]

SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

A rbok can fly sixty miles an hour, a hawk 150 miles. The annual wheat crop of Great Britain amounts to about 400,000,000 bushels. About 5,200 trademarks are registered during the course of the year at the patent office. The 625 registered trade unions of Great Britain have a total membership of 1,973,560. The nember of horses in the United States January 1, 1900, was nearly fourteen million. The great majority of immigrant arrivals at the present time are coming from Austria, Russia and Italy. The Carnegie Steel Company pays about one-seventh of the entire taxes collected by the city of Youngstown, Ohio. The average weight of a man 5 feet 6 inches in height at the age of 35 to 40 years is 147 pounds. The feminine average Is five pounds less. The total amount of money in the United States treasury to the credit of the patent office at the end of the fiscal year 1908 was $6,890,725.89. Of 12,000,000,000 letters written in a year by the world at large, 8,000,000,000 are in English, 1,200,000,000 In German and only 1,000,000,000 in French. A conductor on the Great Western railroad of England recently retired after fifty years of service, and it is estimated that during that time he traveled 3,370,000 miles. The women of Nebraska are rejoicing over the court decision of the State Supreme Court which gives women who vote at school elections the right to vote on the question of school district boijds. Miss Sally James Fnrnham has just completed the bronze frieze for the decoration of the board room in the international bureau of American republics in Washington. The frieze is divided into four panels, depicting events in the history of the republics.

To man the entire American fleet in time of war would require 3,890 offlcers and 72,281 men; and in time of peace, 3,052 officers and 60,802 men, according to Capt. N. R. Usher, assistant to the bureau of navigation. These figures do not Include officers and men at shore stations. In certain parts of Asia and Europe the custom of salting newborn babies is still practiced. The method varies with the differing nationalities of the peoples employing it. The Armenians of Russia cover the entire skin of the infant with very fine salt. This is left on the body for three hours or more, when it is washed off with warm water. According to Consul-General Jones, at Winnipeg, Canada Is in great need of rat traps. Farmers in the grain belt are becoming anxious over the invasion of rodents from the United States, and are willing and able to pay a good price trap that will combine durability and efficiency. The rats are nearing Winnipeg and attempts to check them by inoculation with a communifcable virus have so far, failed to stop their .march. The income of £87,000 which, according to a recently issued treasury account, the Prince of Wales drew last year from the duchy of Cornwall, Bhows a notable increase in the value of the estate since 1837, when it brought only £12,000. The returns mounted steadily throughout Queen Victoria’s reign until in the year before his succession King Edward drew 567,000 from this source. The increase of £20,000 in th.e last ten years is probably due to the falling in of leases on the London portion of the estate, which includes the greater part of Kensington and is by far the most valuable portion of the whole.—Dundee Advertiser.

The drysalter—that mysterious tradesman —was at the time of the great fire a dealer In salted or dry mdats, pickles, sauces, etc., but he no longer drysalts, but sells instead drugs, dyestuffs, colors and chemicals, and even buttons. His changed business is due to the fact that the “grocer” and the “Italian warehouse man” have captured his original trade, although they have mercifulty left him the name. There are many other businesses that are equally puzzling. Probably most of us know what a cordwainer is, hut what is an upholder and what does he uphold? One remembers the imposing “Societe Anonyme des Ramoneours de Paris," which so impressed and mystified the inhabitants of Glare market until they saw the familiar brushes and sticks which proclaim the chimney sweep’s business.—London Chronicle.

"If nature had not endowed Caruso with a fine voice he would nevertheless have become a stage celebrity,” says Nos Lectures, "because of his powers as a ventriloquist. The tenor told this story wheh he was asked whether Jig r&slly wsus- s, v€Dtri]OQuist - 4 i wss ft guest at a cotantry house on the Hudson one day and had sung for my hostess. We were all on the lawn, and a woman came to me and asked me to give an exhibition of ventriloquism. I walked away, and presently, stopping under a tree, shouted loudly: “WeH, little boy, what are you doing up there?” Then a shrill voice answered: “Nothing; just climbed up to hear you sing.” “Very well” I shouted; ♦‘be careful—don't fall?” “All right, sir,” came the shrill reply. Several women had come to the spot, and when the conversation was over one of them eatd: “I never heard such ventriloquism!” and I said, seriously, “Neither did I.” • *•