Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1910 — BITS OF FACT. [ARTICLE]

BITS OF FACT.

Roller skates were in use as far back as 1790. Blackmail may be punishable with' a life sentence In England. Vienna is said to be the most over* crowded city in the world. Sugar is now being used to increase the adhesive power of mortar. Last year this country supplied almost one-third of the world’s tobacco. On an average 60 reputed centenarians die each year in England and Wales. ' j A woman in England may be a peeress by royal grant, but cannot sit in the house of parliament.