Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1910 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Behold the ice man in all his glory. | How many flies have you killed? i That Louisiana calf with two beads Wd two tails came near being twins. It may be bromidic to talk about the weather, but how *6an you help it? Along with other cooling drinks, take this bromide: "Is it hot enough lor you?” Never mind, there will soon be flies enough to give every man a chance to do his duty. What makes the kaiser’s 50 castles ■o expensive is that none of them is a castle in the air. Now that an ion of electricity has been found, the mystery of the force la simply increased. The fibbing as to age, girls, can go on, for the census man and his records have disappeared. If there is one thing upon which thrifty men agree It is that they prefer a street car to a taxi. The middleman is not needed, but the world will continue to need the tanner and the consumer. One can hardly blame the aviators for wanting to use their wings in the general direction of the wind.

In London a safe has been made to bold $5,000,000,000 —worth of radium. ■The problem now is to get the radium. A Seattle man cured a stomach trouble by fasting 39 days. They buried him on the fortieth day. Considering that it is an amusement of the rich we ought to hear that •muggling is a matter of temperament Dancing masters wish their art to be highly diffedentlated from wrestling contests and one cannot blame them. . These long-distance weather predictions give one a chance to worry for • week about weather that never pomes. A Judge advised a speed maniac to pee a doctor. A good, reliable prison doctor would be particularly likely to afford him relief. i To atone partially for the poor display made by the comet there will be another total eclipse of the moon on November 16. Wait for it.

Russia has not figured extensively as a cotton-producing country. But it seems to have ambitions in that direction. Reports from Tiflis are to the effect that the area sown to cotton this year is dduble that of 1909. In one disr trict 400 acres are devoted to the •tape. That is a tiny fraction of the total in the United States, but high prices have stimulated cotton growing wherever practicable, and the aggregate result may be a substantial gain In the foreign output. The latest government report is .additionally favorable to a big wheat crop. The returns, as interpreted by the skilled statistician of the New York produce exchange, indicate a total harvest of 702.404,000 bushels, •gainst an indication for the same time last' year of 652.351.000 bushels. The estimate for 1909 fell below the actual result, for , the total yield last year was 737,1’59,000 bushels. Should there be similar excess this year there will be a good chance for a recordbreaking output. It is stated that the recent missile test against the ram Katahdin has demonstrated that the theory as to the piercing power of big projectiles fired a modern battleships’ range is wrongthat the missile really drops from the trajectory at so sharp an angle that it delivers a glancing blow and therefore does not penetrate armor plate of only moderate thickness. If this is true, the fighting will have to be at closer range, and the guns of smaller caliber than the big 13-inch rifles will come Into greater favor. The peril of the four young men who put out upon Lake Michigan in a gasoline launch with a supply of fuel close to exhaustion should remind nm tor yachtsmen that a small boat without power is helpless in comparison with a sailing yacht. The latter can be handled so that she will be safe in the roughest of weather, while the powerless motor boat must wallow and take what comes, unless those in charge of her have seamanship enough to rig a sea anchor and ride behind it while awaiting succor.

Cheer up, astronomer*! Mars isn’t going to run away, anyhow. The ice cold geyser discovered in Yellowstone park not only,upsets the accepted theory as to the origin of pe riodical natural fountains, but adds a feature of economic value to the scene of natural wonders. Heretofore tour fats have been able to catch fish and awing them from the river into a gey aer basin of hot water, to be cooked while still upon the hook. Now thej will be able to catch the flab and {•wing them Into cold storage.