Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 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 llv- - ing 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 ls< spent for flavoring. The fastest and longest non-stopi 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 out" put 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, mussels 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.