Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1911 — BITS OF FACT [ARTICLE]

BITS OF FACT

Newfoundland is said to be without reptiles of any character. A tea made of the leaves of the ‘‘laughing plant” of Arabia puts the partaker into a hilarious humor for an hour or so. The culture of goldfish has been a flourishing industry of China for hundreds of years. There are 110,000 telephones in use in japan at the present time, and the number is rapidly increasing. The best safeguard against infectious diseases Is to keep both mind and body in a healthy condition. Built in the year 700, the mansion belonging to Count Matuschke, at Winfel-on-the-Rhine, Germany, is believed to be the oldest inhabited house In existence. Posters are so called because In former times the footpaths and roadways of London were separated by lines of posts on which it was the custom to paste announcements.