Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1910 — Crouches Are Importing Coach And Draft Horses to Lafayette. [ARTICLE]

Crouches Are Importing Coach And Draft Horses to Lafayette.

A consignment of sixty-two valuable horses has arrived at the Crouch stock farm at Lafayette. The animals were purchased in Belgium and Germany and are coach horses. They are the choice of the big horse sales in those countries during the past year. The horses reached here in excellent shape and in the pink of condition. Another consignment will arrive at the farm next week. They will come through on a special train next Thursday night. There will be 100 Percherons in this consignment and all were purchased in France. The horses comprising the shipment will be at once placed in condition to be exhibited at state fairs the coming fall. t

See that fly? Kill him! With all his faults, a fly doesn’t bother one as much as does a mosquito. They are fighting in Nicaragua, but •why they are fighting no one seems to know. Blondes are becoming fewer, according to statistics. So many are "letting it go back dark,' nowadays. The individual census cards make a pile 16 miles high. And the man higher up presumably is the top card. A liberal supply of sentimentalism is good for a man; it keeps him from brooding over his non-nerformances. A St. Louis man chewed up a >5 bill ■with a sandwich. At that it was about as cheap as a piece of meat of corresponding size. Massachusetts woman wants a dlTlrce because her husband keeps a live lobster in the house. Well, what’s ■he been keeping? And now a Beloit professor will tramp in the African wilds. How does be know those cannibals will be able to discriminate between a professor and a missionary? A Chicago surgeon has discovered how to graft new extremities on the bodies of his patients. Science should, In this way, be able to assemble a nan superior to the natural article. A man who started tp cure by fasting one of the ills that flesh is heir to has made the discovery that it cured all ailments in his case. Having become defunct he is free from all disease, even the fever called living. Because Chinese immigrants have been detained on Angel island, the Chinese residents have boycotted American goods. Just what their reasoning is, is difficult to understand. Evidently, however, they are trying to meet boycott with boycott

The thrifty Dutch also are buying large amounts of American bonds and other securities for permanent and safe investment The Netherlander are a carfny folk, and when they make a purchase of this kind it is pretty strong testimony to the excellence of the bargain. That Culebra cut is one of the great difficulties in constructing the Panama canal. Latest reports show that a vast mass of stone and mud has dropped Into the excavated channel, involving a whole lot of extra work. But this is one of the contingencies that had to be considered, and American pluck and perseverance will carry the job through in the face of all obstacles. Physicians have succeeded in making the stethoscope and telephone so sensitive that the heart beats of a patient in London were distinctly transmitted to a seismologist oh the Isle of Wight It is expected that this will be of great use in enabling physicians to keep in more sensitive touch with their patients at all hours. The new battleship South Carolina has returned to Norfolk after a trip at sea for target practise with a new record with big guns, having made sixteen bullseyes in sixteen shots with the twelve-inch weapons. With a ■core like that to their credit the jackies of the South Carolina must come pretty close to the championship for good shooting. The ex-Shah of Persia appears to have settled for himself at least the problem of what to do with deposed monarchs. He is studying medicine and hopes soon to become a practising physician. And that is a much more honorable and commendable proceeding than dwelling apart in sullen idleness or plotting revolutions against his country. Some other "‘exes” might imitate his example with much credit to themselves. Of course it is guesswork as yet, and no one will know the actual population of the United States until the decennial federal enumeration now in progress shall be completed. But word comes from Washington that census officials, basing their opinion on what has been learned thus far, believe that the total fcr the country ■will be not far from 100,000,009, which •will surpass most estimates trade previously. A Chicago judge bars wife beaters from citizenship. He might also bar them up away from the rest of the •world. Here’s a man complaining because "his wife eloped with his best friend.” Friend, perhaps, was just trying to prove it When there are a few more flying machines the commuter who works in FVanee and rives in England will have a living chance.