Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1910 — LITTLE THINGS WORTH KNOWING. [ARTICLE]

LITTLE THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

A complete set of British birds’ eggs is worth about SI,OOO. The average cost a mile of a transatlantic submarine cable is $1,200. For every $250,000 spent on engineering it is estimated that a man is killed. There are 270 active volcanoes In the world, many of them being comparatively small. Only about one out of every thousand married couples live to celebrate its golden wedding. Nearly two-thirds of the crime in London is perpetrated between 2pm on Saturdays and 9 a. m. on Mondays. A lock of Napoleon’s hair, cut by his servant on May 31, 1811, at the Hotel de Lorz, Brussels, was sold recently for $4 at Stevens’ auction rooms. Covent Garden, London. Forming part of the breakfast menu of the members of the council of the Royal Zoological Socity of Ireland, at Dublin, recently, were some eggs brought by Sir Charles Ball from China which were laid 40 years ago. By the close of next year about 2,000,000 acres will have been reclaimed by irrigation in this country at a cost of $70,000,000. When the system is completed about 30,000,000 acres will have been recovered and opened for settlement. The heaviest rainfall ever recorded for a single day on the Isthmus of Panama occurred during the great flood of last December, between the hours of 10 a, m., Dec. 28, and 10 a. m. Dec. 29, when the rain gauge ..t Porto Bello showed a fall of 10.96 inches. The total fall for the month was 58.17 inches, which is equal to an average rate of nearly two inches a day.