Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1911 — JUST JOTTINGS [ARTICLE]

JUST JOTTINGS

While the exports of human hair from China are very large, it is denied! that any comes from corpses. Fifty-eight millionaires died in; France during the year 1909, two of whom left estates of over >10,000,000. Someone who thinks he knows; claims that the excessive cost of living is due to the reckless slaughter of birds. Ten cents a day is the amount actually required for food to sustain a human. The remainder of the money is spent for flavoring. The fastest and longest non-stop; railroad run in England is 225% miles, from Paddington to Plymouth, made at 54.8 miles an hour. There is an asbestos mine at Lowell, Mass., which produces a fine grade of material and is said to promise an output of 100 tons per day. Japanese merchants are troubled over the fact that German goods are supplanting theirs in the Chinese markets. They are seeking the' reason. An English cruiser which had been in the water for seven years was recently relieved of forty tons of barnacles, musseld and vegetable growth. In Great Britain there are eleven daily express trains, making runs of from 50 to 118 3-8 miles without a stop, Whose average speed is from 51 to 59.2 miles an hour.