Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1910 — QUEERSTORIES [ARTICLE]

QUEERSTORIES

Neptune takes more than 160 years to make the complete revolution round Ithe sun. More than 400,000 persons emigrated from this country during the year 1907. This is a much smaller number than shown by the previous year. The Union Pacific Railroad Company Is conducting extensive experiments with the hope of making wireless telegraphy available for the operation of trains. From estimates and actual figures It Is computed that in the history of this country the total number of foreigners arriving on our shores amounts to 27,111,850. Wine production In Chile Is Increasing. The acreage in vineyards is 145,894, of which 47,103 acres are irrigated*. There is great demand for American oak staves. The Siamese language Is a great mixture of nearly all the dialects and languages of the far east, namely, Chinese, Malay, Mon, Cambodian, Sanskrit, Pali, and others. It is announced in the French press that the historic house occupied by Napoleon on the Isle of Elba, known as the Villa San Martino a Porto Ferrajo, is to be sold at auction. With the house are to go the furniture and other souvenirs of the Emperor. The newspapers urge that the friends and admirers of Napoleon take steps to prevent the dispersal of the historic objects. A subway amusement pier, consisting of an under-water chamber, with collapsible entrance and exit tubes, is proposed for one of the Atlantic coast resorts. The amusement seekers will enter the chamber through the tube leading from the shore, and leave It through th tube rising to the pier above the chamber. Portholes around the sides of the chamber will give a view of the bottom of the sea. Mrs. Margaret Stimson has just completed her forty-fifth year of service at the Institute of Technology, Boston. She was appointed in 1865 by President Rogers to take charge of the chemical apparatus used by students, Is still’ln active service and is said to remember the names and personality of more men who have attended classes In the Institute of Technology than any other person connected with the institution. In 1903 India rubber sold for 88 cents a pound. Recent special cable dispatches told' how London is going mad in gambling In stocks of rubber companies, the stuff itself having risen In price to >3.08 a pound. This Increase gives additional Interest to the processes of regeneration of waste rubber and of the manufacture of substitutes. The regeneration of vulcanized India rubber consists in removing the sulphur, which was added In the process of vulcanization.