Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1910 — SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY [ARTICLE]

SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

Nuremberg is the home of the pocket timepiece. Q • France still has 11,000 men encamped on Moroccan soil. Alaska’s copper output this year will exceed 4,000,000 pounds. Electricity is the only motor power used in submarine boats. In fifteen years a locomotive will run 240,000 miles and earn $300,000. The governors of Australia and Canada each receive a salary of $50,000 yearly. , An automatic coupler for air and steam hose on railroad trains has been invented. A great electric power generating station in Germany will make use of p6at fuel entirely. An English physician has placed on record a case of malaria which remained latent foT thirteen years. The Honduras monetary commission recommends the adoption of the gold standard. Practically no gold is In circulation at present, but much is exported. Hood-shaped headgear has been devised for torpedo boat crews, affording protection for the eyes and shielding the ears from the wind caused by the high speed. Roller skating has become popular in the Alpine cities of Switzerland, the streets being used. The same is true of Mannheim, Germany. American skates are popular. Fifteen American consulates in France report $133,000,000 worth of shipments to the United States in 1909, against $91,000,000 worth in 1908. Paris leads with $66,000,000. It Is now asserted that Leon Delagrange lost his life when his aeroplane shot to the ground because he became confused and excited while he was flying low and about to turn. Seventy-five per cent of the farmers of the United States plant their crops according to the moon’s phases, but scientific investigation shows that potatoes planted in the “dark” of the moon are no better than others. x As a means to reduce the smoke evil the municipal authorities of Glasgow will hold an exhibition of gas heating, lighting and cooking appliances and appliances use of various sorts of smokeless fuel.

For the inflation of automobile tires a Frenchman has invented tubes containing aluminum with a small proportion of mercury bichloride.' The admission of waier forms hydrogen gas under pressure, which may easily be turned Into the tires. The supply of foodstuffs in Germany has only been kept up to the maximum figures by intensive agriculture, the employment" of modern machinery, scientific fertilization and the employment of millions of female hands. The shipments of Chinese merchandise to the United States, as invoiced through the American consulate general at Shanghai, which had dropped off from $14,734,853 in value in 1907 to $9,321,646 in 1908, went up to $13,872,531 last year. The work of building the great docks is proceeding with energy. Over $20,000,000 will be expended. Singapore already ranks ,ak she eighth greatest port In the world,' and "the new construction will give it as fine docking facilities as any port In the Fast. • The present steam railroad mileage In continental Europe is 149,491. Russia, Including the Siberian railway, leads with 40,117 miles, followed by Germany with 36,701 and France with 24,964. The general per cent of increase in 1909 was 1.11, compared with 3.6 in 1908.

A writer in the Lancet mentions lurid incidents at a funeral. A man was supposed to have run danger of being buried alive: for when his coffin was moved a knocking sound was heard within. When it was opened it was found that a hammer had been left in it, and had jolted about so as to cause the noise. As a result, it is said, of the Increased spirit duties under the British budget the police have noticed In remote districts of Ireland Indications of a revival of illicit distillation of liquor. There has also been a considerable Increase, It Is reported, in the use of spirits ©f ether as a beverage since the price of whisky was raised. A Burlington passenger train com ing into St. Joseph had to stop and remove a sleeping man from the track. A brakeman was left to hold the man, and when the train reached the station a policeman was sent to arrest the track sleeper. He was running down the right of way with the brakeman hanging to his coattails with all brakes sei.—Kansas City Star. Miss Huges, of Toronto, Canada, recently conducted a party of 322 school teachers to visit Boston and other points of Interest in New England. Miss Huges’ father is the inspector of schools at Toronto and her mother was president of the congress of kindergarten teachers at the world’s fair at Chicago, and for the last four years has been president of the International Kindergarten Association. In regard to the beet sugar industry of Switzerland an attempt was made in 1909 by the agricultural societies to encourage the purchase of the Aarberg factory by the federal council and operate It as a government monopoly, but the proposition was refused, and unless It receives a special Impetus this year the beet sugar Industry in Switzerland will probably be abandoned. -