Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1911 — CORONATION HELPS INDUSTRIES OF BRITAIN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CORONATION HELPS INDUSTRIES OF BRITAIN

Battleships go'to the 6crap heap almost aa fast as pugilists do. Smoke costs Chicago $21,830,000 a year, not to mention the agony. The process of dying poor la easily achieved by nine men out of ten. ~ A Chicago woman takes taxicab tides to cure the blues. Not her husband's, however. Thieves In New York stole a wagon load of cheese. The police, we presume. are on the scent. A man went mad In a barber's chair In New York. Probably the barber was talking winter baseball gossip. It Is now possible to go around the world In less than half the time It took Jules Verne’s hero to make his trip. , , . ; t Possibly this world would be better off ts there were no pistols In It At least, there would be more people here. There is more money In being an ex-king of Portugal than In being an ex-president of the United States, but there Is less excitement Hello! Here's Vienna exceeding the 2,000,000 mark. Some of those oldworld towns are getting nearly as big as a young American city. A new golf rule reads like this: "The shaft may be fixed at the heel or at any other point In the head.” Is this golf language or what is U? A New York man who had lost his memory was found with $60,000 in his pockets. Probably discovered on a witness stand at an investigation. It Is said that a St. Louis man kissed a girl 15,000 times in one month. Must have used a kissometer to keep the count It Is said by a glove dealer that Chicago men have reason to be proud of their small hands. Since when have small hands been a source of masculine pride? One of New York’s millionaires Is going to marry a telephone girl because she was always polite to him on the wire. Why spoil a nice polite telephone girl? ■ -i. . ,’ir A popular danseuse makes oath that her entire property 1b worth only $250, which may account for her economical use of stage dress.

The “singing sparks” invention of the German professor will have no Influence on the sentimental sparking songs of the American parlor. Madison Square garden. New York, Is on sale at $3,500,000. Anybody want a nice little garden, centrally located? Gardening is fine for the nerves, the doctors tell us. The general manager of the Chicago telephone company says that the question, “What’s the time?” Is asked of his operators by Chicago subscribers no fewer than 52,000 times a day. There ought to be a good market in Chicago for clocks and watches that will keep time. A girl in Vienna was recently fined 86 cents for scratching a man’s nose In the street with her hatpin. This is the first poetic retribution which has overtaken the elongated feminine hatpin, and it is so because the enormity of the offense was equaled only by the hugeness of the fine. Now that it has been demonstrated that cattle can be herded with an aeroplane, we may expect soon to see the police handling crowds at parades and other public celebrations in the same manner. It will be an improvement over the pushing and hauling of the method In vogue at present The prevalence of the bubonic plague in the east has put American health officers on their mettle. There is no occasion for special alarm, for medical skill Is equal to the emergency, says the Troy Times. The fact that several cases have been discovered on Incoming steamers and that effective quarantine has proven V ed further spread of the ailment is assurance that vigilance is maintained.

It hu been judicially decided that when a man rives a girl a diamond ring as an engagement token, the ring belongs to her and she cannot be made to give It up it the engagement la broken. Soon poor mere man will be beginning to count his tew remaining rights and wonder when they are all taken from him if he can accomplish anything with the dominant sex by becoming in his torn a militant suffragette. England, and especially London, is making great plans for the coronation of King George next spring. It Is expected that the gorgeous spectacle -will surpass anything of the kind ever seen in the British capital, and the •bow will bring enormous crowds to tbe city. Such affairs at ways mean a , magnificent display of British power jssd also bfg money for London merchants, hotel keepers and others. Bo tbe glad news is received with glow»cjr an licit.

LONDON. Preparations for the coronation of King George iu June are furnishing employment for a great number of the working people of England. Nearly all the robes, gowns, etc., are being made In the British Isles, and most of the elaborate embroidery necessary is being done in London.

MAKING THE GARTER BANNERS FOR THE KING AND QUEEN

WEAVING CORONATION VELVET