Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1910 — FACTS IN TABLOID FORM. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

Sugar alone will sustain life for * considerable time. Ona hundreds pounds of almonds yield forty-eight pounds of oil. Of ten dyes used for Easter eggs, four were found to be poisonous. The pawnbrokers of Great Britain Issue over 190 million pledges a year. The popular belief that a drowning person rises to the surface three times Is unfounded. Life Insurance returns show that more suicides take place on Tuesday day and Thursday than on other days. In Nantes, France, a city of 160,000 population, there is not a single modern steam laundry. The washing is done, on boats. The most valuable pipe In the world is the state pipe of the shaft of Persia. It Is set with precious stones, and Is worth >400,000. At the close of the last fiscal year the life saving establishments of the United States embraced 281 stations, most of them on the Atlantic coast. In addition to the >172,000,000 worth of merchandise, there was received from Alaska >18,000,000 worth of gold of domestic production during the last year. Copenhagen Is plagued with rats and It has ..been made a criminal offense to breed rodents for the purpose of securing the bounty offered for rat tails. There is just one other great cod bank In the world besides those off Newfoundland. It lies off Cape Agulhas, which Is the southern tip of Africa, and-south of the Cape of Good Hope. The Agulhas plateau Is said to be almost a duplicate In size and richness of the north cod banks. But this is too far off, so there Is little promise of its appeasing the hungry, appetite of the world for cod. Londoners are considering with Interest the scheme of Lady Edward Cecil by which a number of families living In the country might club together to retain the services of two first-class teachers to conduct classes at one of their houses. The teachers are to be paid extra to provide their own board and lodgings. In the case she furnishes as an example, the cost amounted to about >l,lOO a year for a class of six children. One of the great English railways Is Installing a compact railway ticket printing machine. When a ticket for' a certain station is required, the clerktouches an Indicator which carries the name of the station, slips a blank Into a slot, turns a handle and the completed ticket drops out. At the same time a record of the sale Is printed on a continuous strip of paper, together with the fare, and all information required for bookkeeping. There Is a noticeable development In the jaws of the boys taken out of the streets of London and sent Into the British navy. A scientist says of the phenomenon: ‘The Important notable improvement In them, next to their superior stature and healthy appearance, was the • total change tn the shape and expression of their faces. On analyzing this one finds that It was to be mainly accounted for by the increased growth and improved angle of the lower jaw." Japan’s police force was originally the most aristocratic body of the kind in the world. Its establishment was almost coincident with the emperor's decree forbidding the wearing of swords. By a stroke‘of the imperial pen the samurai were deprived of cherished weapons by which the gentlemen of Japan had been accustomed from immemorial times to advertise their rank. So they went into the police, where It is still possible to carry a sword; and a very formidable weapon it was, being of the two-handed variety, Hyperbole Gassaway went from here to a little town In southern California for his health. In two weeks he wrote home that he felt ten years younger. Some days later he wrote again that he felt twenty years younger. Then his family heard no more from him. They telegraphed the mayor of the California town for Information about their Hyperbole Gassaway and got this answer: “I regret to inform you that your beloved husband and father, after a month's residence here, died from cholera Infantum.” Nearly forty years ago the British colonial office, through the agency of the Kew Gardens, Introduced specimens of the Hevea rubber tree from the Amazon Into the far east, with the result that It has become acclimatized, particularly In Ceylon and the federated Malay states. During the last year nearly ten million pounds of plantation rubber was exported from Ceylon to Malaya at prices higher than were realized for any other rubber in the world, for the reason that it was marketed in a cleaner condition than 'the "forest” rubber shipped from Pam. —Cassler's Magazine for MayWhen Illinois sent Dick Richardson to the Senate a vacancy wga created In the old Quincy congressional district that Included Hancock county. A Democratic farmer, named Jake Davis, from Hancock county, got the nomination. The Republicans raised the cry against him that he was a slave bolder; this was "befo’ the wah.” This was Jake’s defense: ‘‘Fellowcitizens, they say I am a slave holder. Well, fellowcitizens, the facts are these: I married a woman In Missouri who bad fifty slaves and, fellowcitizens, my love for that woman was so strong that I would have married her If she had owned a hundred slaves.”—-From Non man E. Mack’s National Monthly.