Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1911 — THINGS WORTH KNOWING. [ARTICLE]

THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

Under the British constitution the king could make war without reference to parliament. New York city has tax free real estate valued at more $1,225,000,000. There are 103 cement factories in the United States, and the number is, growing all the time. What promises to be a valuable coal field has been discovered In the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. The irrigation projects of this country have called for the erection of the five largest dams in the world. In general and electrical engineering factories In the united kingdom over 16,000 women are employed. », Though but a small nation, Switzerland makes 100,000,000 pounds of honey a yefir, bo well is its flora adapted to bee culture. . ‘ " •««>'"' - In Formosa the business of canning pineapples is booming. The market for the goods is mostly Japan. Two crops are grown each year. “The English word ‘flirt,’ both as verb and noun, has befen adopted by the German speaking people In this city,” says a Vienna letter ,“but it is usually pronounced ‘fleert.’ ” ... The village of Remborn, in the mountainous region of Taunus, in Germany, possesses a linden tree which is said to have reached the age of 1,200 years. Among the unconscious humors of current Journalism is the mistake made by a Westphalian paper, which credited Dr. Ernst von Leven. the great Berlin physician who died the other day, with the invention of the Leyden jar.