Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1910 — QUEER STORIES [ARTICLE]

QUEER STORIES

The sun will.continue to give out Its present amount of heat for thirty million years. In spite of the cold, mosquitoes flourish and are an intolerable nuisance in Alaska. A year’s fishing in thl3 country amounts, in value of product, to about $64,000,000. The average animal death rate among all the armies Of the world Is nine in each thousand. To prevent explosions of coal dust in mines experiments are under way In Germany in which water is pumped into borings under pressure. . ■. It is not in the nostril that the sense of smell lies, but in the upper third of the nose. There the red lining of the nostril changes into brown, and becomes much more sensitive. Manhattan Congregational Church, New York, of which the Rev. Dr. Henry A. Stlmson is pastor, has been holding a series of “civic services,’’ these being addressed by publicists and experts in municipal development. The queen of Italy is one of the finest shots In Europe, not only in comparison with her own sex, but as against all comers. In her girlhood she was a great huntress, but *ce no longer hunts; she now has an unconquerable aversion to killing anything, and, though she still shoots, it is only at clay pigeons or some such mark. Vacant lot cultivation In Kansas City, Mo., is being done this season under the direction of the City Club. One nine-acre traot and several small* er lots have been set out in vegetables, the farming being done by needy persons. They are not taxed for soil, seeds or tools and the City Club has engaged a practical gardener to supervise the work. “No substance that refuses to dissolve in water has an odor,” says a writer. “For it is the actual substance itself, floating in particles in the air, that appeals to the nose, and not simply a vibration of the air, as in the case of light and sound. The damper a thing is the more powerful the odor it gives off. A pleasant proof of this fact can be had by walking in a garden after rain.” Few people realize that for most diseases the-bed and it alone is the greatest, surest, quickest cure the world and ages of science have yet discovered or bestowed. People, as a rule, look upon going to bed for sickness as a necessary and unavoidable consequence of sickness, instead of looking upon It as they should, as being the very first and greatest part of the cure of the case. —New York Press.