Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1910 — SOMETHING FOB EVERYBODY [ARTICLE]

SOMETHING FOB EVERYBODY

The internal revenue tax on liquor In this country in 1909 netted $57,456,411. Since 1878 there have been 19,121 cremations in Germany. In the United States In the last year alone there were 84,500. It is now held that the area of merchantable forests In Canada has been, very much overestimated. A recent Ontario estimate was that the timber used at the present rate will last the province only thirty years. Pipeline connections, says the American Machinist, have been completed by which it is possible to pipe oil from the Oklahoma wells to New York hafbor. Oil has been started on the long Journey of 1,600 miles. This is. the longest pipeline in the world. There are many small savings banks in Germany which accept deposits of 10 pfennigs (2% cents). Thirty per cent of the people of Prussia have savings accounts. Travelers are struck by the absence of beggars. The government permits no person to solicit alms. American have begun to excavate the ancient city of Sardis, about five hours distant by rail from Smyrna. The work will last two to five years, and It is the Intention to lay the entire city bare. Two hundred men will be employed eight months each year. A scheme for the construction of an elevated electric railway In Tokio Is at present under consideration. It is proposed that there shall be two lines, one running frqm the east to the west of the city, and the other from the north to the south. The cost of construction of the projected lines is estimated at $12,000,000. Signore d’Annunzio, the famous Italian novelist and poet, has been exulting in the extent ~ofhls -vocabulary; “Many people,” he tells an Interviewer, “find 800 words sufficient for all the purposes of writing and speaking. In my works you will find at least 15,000 different words. How many words fallen into disuse have I brought back to life! How many other words have I endowed with an entirely new meaning!” A new system of treating eggs so as to prevent them from growing stale when in cold storage has been discovered in Rochester. This consists in subjecting the eggs to an electrical current. The theory is that eggß when placed in torage are alive and are gradually irozen to death, whereas if the life is destroyed before they are placed in storage they do not taste stale, even when kept on ice for a long period. One of the~Btrangest clocks ever made was that constructed by a man In Milan. This clock was constructed of bread. The maker, being a poor man, set apart every day for some time a portion of his daily bread, which, by a process of which he would not divulge the secret, he was able to make as hard as metal. From these fragments of bread he thus constructed his clock, which Is said to be an excellent one, keeping perfect time. Hotels, according to an article In the Hotel World, should be provided with portable dog kennels, to be rented to the guests who Insist on taking their dogs to rooms. Such a kennel should be about four feet long and of a width that would allow it to go through the door of a room. It should he constructed of wood, lined part way up zinc or sheet metal. The upper part should be covered with open wire work, and the bottom should be provided with broad-tread casters.—Popular Mechanics.

Lord Byron had decided views on diet. His fear of fatness rather than Its suitability to his work dictated the starvation to which-he subjected himself. In 1813 he lived upon tea and six biscuits a day, and In 1816 his diet consisted of a thin slice of bread for breakfast and a vegetable dinner. He chewed mastic and tobacco to keep down his hunger in between. While at Athens he drank vinegar and water, and seldom ate more than a llttlo rice, and “Don Juan,” It is said, was writ ten mainly on gin and water. And yet Trelawney has recorded that no man had brighter eyes or a clearer voice.

In these days of scarcity of provender and high cost of living it’s a slight crumb of comfort to hear of one commodity that is plentiful. It’s crab meat. The Baltimore papers report that on the opening of the crab packing season a day or two ago in the various tidewater counties on the eastern shore of Maryland the size and quality of the crabs caught were all that could be desired. The crab packing business has*in the last decade grown J.o large proportions, and, with the exception of the oyster business, Is the most profitable industry In which watermen are engaged on the eastern shore. Mark Twain played a practical Joke on the first audience he addressed in England. This was in 1872, when hl» reputation was already high in that country, and the announcement, of bis lecture filled St. George’s hall, London, to overflowing. Few, if any. of those present had ever seen the humorist. He came on the platform in evening dress, with the crestfallen air of a manager announcing a disappointment “Mr. Clemens had landed at pool, and had fully hoped to reach London in time, but unfortunately missed his train.” The audience started booing, but the boos changed into cheeri when he added that, fortunately. Mark Twain was present and would do his best to flit the place of the d* faulting Clemens