Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1910 — Topies of The Times [ARTICLE]

Topies of The Times

The Navy League of Germany hue a membership of 1,031,339 and its funds amount to $8,395,960. Korea has 116 active gold mines, 109 graphite, 34 coal, .29 copper, 7 silver, 3 sine, 2 mercury and 59 various. 1 The population of Japan Is increasing at the rate of 600,000 a year. It la now nearly fifty million, exclusive of Korea.

A married woman in Switzerland is entitled to one-third of her husband’s Income as her Independent property, according to a new law. There Is no barren land in Manchuria. Almost every acre Is cultivated. The yield at beans; the leading staple, is between ten million and eighteen million koku (koku —five bushels) a year. In response to an offer of 165,000 marks for the best plan for the enlargement of Berlin and Its suburbs, twenty-seven papers were received. The prizes were divided among four of these. Japan Is establishing a high technological school In Port Arthur, and is conducting Investigations for'tihe development of productive Industries In Manchuria, says the Taiyo, a Toklo monthly. Miss Ellen Emerson, granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Is a trained nurse in the Massachusetts general ■hospital in Boston. She also gives health talks before women’s clubs and similar groups of women. The Sunshine Society Is said to be responsible for the free emergency hospital which is being built at St Petersburg, Fla. It will be under the direction of a board of trustees, with a woman’s auxiliary. It Is to care for cases calling for quick relief and cases of destitution.

A stingy angler was fishing on a Scottish loch on a pouring wet day. He had been consoling himself from Ms flask and forgetting his gillie. Presently he asked the gillie If there was a dry place in the boat on which to strike a match. “You might try my throat,” said the gillie. “It’s dry enough!”—Fishing Gazette. “Even Archimedes,” the philosophical boarder was saying, "was in some respects an impractical theorist. He said he could move the world if he had a fulcrum to rest a lever on, but he never made any attempt to get the fulcrum. Nowadays, I think, he would be called a fourflusher —whatever that is.”—Chicago Tribune. While in India Lord Kitchener visited an out-of-the-way district where a new fort had been erected. He was astonished to find that it was commanded by a hill close by. “I congratulate you, colonel,” said Kitchener to the officer who had selected the site. “What a capital fort! Er —when do you begin to remove the hill?”

A deaf but pious English lady, visiting a small country town in Scotland, went to church armed with an ear trumpet. The elders had never seen one, and viewed it with suspicion and uneasiness. After a short consultation one of them went up to the lady, Just before the opening of the service, and, wagging his finger at her warningly, whispered. “One toot and ye’re ot!” Human Life.

The elevator conductor of a tali office building, noticing that the colored janitor had ridden up with him several times that •morning, remarked: “Sam, this is the fifth time I have taken you up, but you have not come down with me.” “Well, you Bee,” Sam replied, “Ah been washin’ windows on de ’leventh floor, and every now and agin’ Ah misses mah hold and, falls out.”—Success Magazine. The organ used in the Moravian church at Lititz from 1787 to 1879 and from the latter date until recently m the Moravian church at South Bethlehem, will be returned to Lititz and preserved as a relic. It was built by David Tannenberg, the Lititz organ builder. The charge for it was £2OO sterling. A similar one was made for Nazareth in 1793. An organ built by the same man was sent to Madison. Va., in 1801 on three wagons and is still in use. The first organist of the Lititz instrument was John Thomas, Jr., who played it for six years.—Philadelphia Record,