Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1910 — FACTS IN TABLOID FORM. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

The police force of London arrested last year more than 108,000 persons. Newfoundland Is without reptiles. No snake, frog, toad or lizard has ever been seen there. In many German factories the female employes are forbidden to wear corsets during working hours. , Ostrich feathers to the value of SB,690,000 have been exported from the Cape of Good Hope In one year. The proposed International exhibition at Bilboa, Spain, In 1912, Is now practically a certainty. It is to cost $1,280,000. Mme. Marie Kraus-Bolte has just celebrated at her home In New York her 50th anniversary In kindergarten work. She was a pupil of Frau Fahrenheit. The groom was attired in a dark business suit and wore pink begonias and plum blossoms, which made a very pleasing picture, as he stood between the bridesmaid and best man in the douMe door between the parlor and sitting room in the Amos home. — Cimarron (Kas.) Jacksonian. The minority who have square chins and big lower jaws say that we of ths receding chins have neither will nor strength of character, which is absurd, as any one may know who remembers that General Wolfe and Mr. Pitt had practically no chins at all, to say nothing of living soldiers and statesmen. To judge a man by his chin Is no les9 foolish than to Judge him by the humps of his skull.—London Spectator. Theodore Imback, of the state experiment station, has found a new pse for abandoned mines. He has produced In them mushrooms of the best grade, his experiment showing the abandoned mine to be an ideal place for mushroom culture. He is producing mushrooms of the best quality In an abandoned mine near the state farm here, having plants that yield from the one mine from $8 to $lO worth of mushrooms a day.—Baltimore Sun. After desperate efforts a traveler who had fallen into a river managed to reach the bank in safety. His wife, who had been a distressed onlooker, exclaimed as soon as her anxiety was relieved, "Ah, Thomas, ye should be verra thankful tae Providence for saving your life.” Thomas was somewhat aggrieved at what he deemed an unequal apportionment of the credit "Yess, yess,” he replied; "Providence wass very good, but I wass ferry clever, too, whatefer.” Saleswomen throughout the country have been sending congratulations to B. F. Hamilton of Saco, Me., who haa just attained Ais 91st- birthday. Mr. Hamilton was the first merchant to employ saleswomen, and the people of his town, men and women, boycotted his store in consequence. Many of the leading churchwomen called on him personally and remohstrated earnestly against what they called the sin of placing women in a position of such publicity as behind a counter for the purpose of selling goods. How closely famous artists can be Imitated by skillful artists was proved by an exhibition by Ruskln la 1875of a series of facsimiles of Turner’s pictures In the National gallery, London. The collection was accompanied by a characteristic note from Ruskin, In which he said, “I have given my best attention during upward of ten years to train a copyist to perfect fidelity In rendering the works of Turner, and have now succeeded In enabling him to produce facsimiles which I must sign with my own name to prevent their being sold for real Turners” Reptiles’ eggs are not very attractive objects. In the case of crocodiles and many kinds of tortoises they are pale colored or white, and resemble those of birds in shape. But the egg of the gopher tortoise is remarkable for Its complete roundness. It might well he mistaken for a golf ball. Many snake eggs are soft skinned, brown as *o color, and look for all the world like a number of new potatoes. The eggs of fishes are usually small, soft and Inconspicuous. The most remarkable . point about them Is the extraordinary number laid by the Individual. A single cod lays as many as nine million eggs. Answering our challenge as to. the most constantly misquoted line, a cor respondent Instances “He who runs may read,” which sounds very scriptural, but is In reality a mangled version of the verse In the Prophet Hahakkuk: “Write the vision and make It plain upon the table that he may run that readeth It.” Another blbical misquotation is the following: "By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou earn thy bread," the real text In Genesis being, “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.” And when we pour "oil on the troubled waters” thousajnds search the Scriptures In valq for the metaphor.—London Qhronlcle. Prussia’s laws at one time Inflicted penalties for smoking, not only in railway earrlages, but In any public place. In 1840 the prohibition was so far relaxed as to allow cigar smoking hi the streets, provided the lighted end of the cigar was protected by a kind of wire cage, which was supposed to obviate the risk of fire from flying sparks. This was soon foupd to be an unworkable regulation, and, after endless petitions, the government allowed the smoking of naked cigars In public. But until 1848 any smoker retaining his pipe in his mouth when passing a sentry or an officer in uniform was liable to a term of imprisonment