Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1910 — FACTS IN TABLOID FORM. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

More than $60,000,000 worth of soap is made and sold in the United States every year. An official estimate places the number of dairy cows in the'Unlted States at 21,000,000. Some varieties of rice ripen In two months after planting, while others require up to six months in cultivation. Canada has twenty wireless stations, and new wireless service is being established between Prince Rupert and Vancouver. England imported from Argentina in 1907 nearly $21,000,000 worth of fresh beef and $11,472,345 worth of fresh mutton. The New York public Bervice commission will make an extensive investigation of concrete as a deadener of noise on elevated railroad structures. The highest viaduct in the world recently was opened in France. It stands 144 feet above a river, took eight years to build and cost about SBOO,000. * In the last fiscal year experts of the department of agriculture inspected before slaughter 56,544,255 animals at 876 establishments in 240 cities and towns.---. Bacteriologists are now using an electrically heated incubator to hatch germs, as the temperature can be controlled for an indefinite period without variation. New York City has been Increasing its birth rate for the last ten years. For the twelve months just passed it has been twenty-eight to the thousand inhabitants.

One of the great Intellects of England has stated that not above fifty thousand people in all Britain can read and understand the ordinary London newspaper. After an exhaustive research an English architect has decided that the leaning tower of Pisa was built at the angle it stands to-day as a feat of structural bravado. Experiments in abrasion conducted at a French mint have proved that aluminum coins will be less rapidly worn by use than coins made of gold, silver or even bronze. Stuyvesant Fish, Jr., began in the Illinois Central shops in Chicago at a salary of $25 a month. Later he worked as station agent at S6O a month in his eagerness to learn the work from the bottom up. The Wesleyan conference of England recently passed by a large majority a motion to admit women as lay delegates. This resolution must be approved by the synod before it can become a rule of the denomination. In 1907 there were about 30,000 barrels of sesame oil shipped to Constantinople, but the cotton seed oil has supplanted this to a great extent, and this season there has been used hefe hardly 1,000 barrels of sesame oil. The women of Chicago are urging an increase in the number of milk inspectors for that city. They say that it is Impossible for the eight inspectors now on duty to make sure that even a small part of its supply is in wholesome condition.

To check New Jersey’s destructive forest fires, the state has ordered the railroads traversing its pine forests to clear the ground for fifty feet on each side of the tracks and plow up and gravel ten-foot strips to prevent the growth of brush again. The Alps show such an extraordinary attraction for Hertzian wave currents that Swiss military aerographists have been able to intercept wireless messages from points 2,000 miles away, while the interchange of messages within Switzerland is unsatisfactory.

At twenty, Tintoretto was one of the most prolific and popular painters in Italy; Schelling had grappled with the philosophy of Kant; Galileo had discovered the use of the pendulum; Lafayette was a major-general, and Garrison voiced emancipation for the slave. A new electrical alarm clock uses dry batteries to ring a bell, supply a small Incandescent light with current and start a fire in an alcohol lamp with a platinum wire, all by completing a circuit when the hour hand touches a third hand set at a designated time. Making, selling or exporting of red giqseiy; in Or from Korea is now forbidden under fines of from SSO to SSOO and confiscation of equipment to all parties except the, Korean government or firms specially authorized by it It is highly valued in the orient for medicinal use.

Queen Ena of Spain (Victoria Ena) is one of the few ladies of the peninsula who can lay claim to horsemanship. Spanish ladies are, as a rule, too indolent to ride. But Alfonso is a daring horseman, and it must please him to have his young wife galloping by his side. A new Japanese steamship service has been put on befeveen porta of Japan, via Hong-Kong and Valparaiso, Chili, by the Togo Klaln Kalsha Company of Yokohama. The three steamers are subsidised by the Japanese government. Other porta of the west coast of South America will also be used. The calabar bean is highly poisonous and in foreign countries is used for medicinal purposes. Its effect is opposite that of belladonna and is used for contraction of the eye, In tetanus, neuralgia and rheumatic dlseasaa It is such a powerful depressant to nervous action that surgeons can only us* it in small amounts.