Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1910 — QUEER STORIES [ARTICLE]

QUEER STORIES

The salmon output of Alaska equals the combined catch of British Columbia, the United States proper and Japan. The crude rate of mortality last year in the seventy-six large English towns, having an estimated population of 16,500,000, did not exceed 14.7 a thousand. - - For use in manual training schools a Wisconsin man has patented a tool chest which may be converted Into a work bench by clamping it to the top of two desks. Brazil exported about 8,000,000 pounds of rubber in 1909, calendar year, f half to Europe and half to the United States. It was the largest year’s export of Brazilian rubber on record. A metal seat, hinged and suspended by chains from a window casing, has been patented by an Ohio man for window cleaners as well as for use as a shelf on which food may be placed to cool. From Singapore over >13,000,000 Worth of goods are annually shipped to the United States; yet, of the total number of 29,234 vessels entered there in 1908, only one small craft was American.

The supply of foodstuffs in Germany has only been kept up to the maximum figures- by intensive agriculture, the employment of modern machinery, scientific fertilization and the employment of millions of female farm hands. The German workman pays as much as the American for his food, except potatoes, milk and vegetables! Among the eight thousand applicants who are anxious to Join Captain Scott in his British expedition to the south pole, are all sorts and conditions of men—doctors, engineers, civil servants, clerks, army officers, soldiers, seamen, railway porters and men of private means. “The man for the work,” said an official of the expedition, “Is the man who is absolutely physically fit In all points.” Hospital nurses, when assisting at a delicate operation, have their own way of suppressing a cough or speeze. The operator’s attention must not be distracted for a moment. Coughs and sneezes, too, spread germs on surfaces carefully rendered antiseptic. So every nurse soon learns to press her finger hard on the upper lip, immediately below the nose,, when she feels a cough or sneeze coming on.

A man Is never quite so' philosophical as when he is being pinched.