Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1912 — Victimized French Government. [ARTICLE]

Victimized French Government.

The European spy mania Is likely to reach the reductio ad absurdum if there are many imitators of the ingenuity of a certain Herr Glitch, who has succeeded in victimizing the French government to the tune of several thousand dollars. The resourceful Glitch has a considerable knowledge of military tactics, sufficient to enable him to prepare an assortment of plans for the invasion of the French frontier and to give them the necessary professional! tint. These he sent to the French) government with a hard luck letter about gambling debts and the pressing need for money. By return mail came a letter enclosing $5,000 In bank potes’and a request for as much mtyre on the same kind of information as could be procured. Glitch put the money in his pocket and laughed. Moreover, he told every one why he was laughing, so that they also might laugh. But there were no corresponding sounds of revelry from Paris.

Changes In Faces of Cards. Faces of playing cards as printed today date from the middle of the seventeenth century, at which time the portraits were becoming conventionalized. In France they underwent a number of changes, between the time when Louis XVI. waß beheadedv until the fall of the second empire. Then republican cards were again devised. Their inventors tried in each suit to symbolize one of the great republics of the world —the Roman, American, Swiss and French being those most usually selected. The symbolic figure of each republic became the queen of the suit; its great hero became the king, while the jacks were secondary heroes, and the aces showed historic pictures. It Is from this time that dates the card in which the American republic was the spade suit and George Washington’s portrait appeared in place of the king.

Overcoming Insomnia.

One hears frequent complaints of Insomnia from persons who tell in the next breath that they have slept from four to five hours but who thick that in order to maintain perfect health eight or nine hours of sleep are necessary. As a matter of fact, there are periods in everyone's life when health is so abundant that five hours, and, in exceptional cases, four hours sleep are ample. Persons who Bleep for five hours and no longer are not suffering from insomnia. They are enjoying exceptional bodily health. But the entire five hours must be devoted to a sound sleep, or otherwise the body will not be sufficiently rested.