Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1916 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Dog Knows Phone Ring. Bud, a Boston terrier, owned by W. P. Pinney, an employee of the Southern New England Telephone company and a member of the volunteer fire brigade, can distinguish his master's telephone call —two rings—from the other numbers on the 316 line, according to a Winsted (Conn.) dispatch to the New York Hehald. When the bell rings twice and Pinney is at home and does not hear the call the dog searches for him. By barking and other means he attracts his master’s attention to the telephone. When Pinney falls to respond at night to the double ring Bud dashes to his master’s room and rouses him. That is one reason why Pinney never fails to report for duty at a night fire. Napoleon In Opera. Long ago dramatic authors put Napoleon I upon the stage. But until the present the little corporal has only spoken. Now he is going to sing. The libretto of the opera ready and a Genevese musician, M. Joseph Lauber, is to write the music. The title is simple, “1815.” The theme will include the flight from the Isle of Elba, the hundred days, Waterloo and St Helena. The role of the emperor will be taken by M. Zimmerman, who joins to a strong tenor voice the Napoleonic face. The idea of making Napoleon sing does not lack in audacity and one may well ask if it will be accepted by the French public. London Short of Doctors. The operation of the English insurance act, with its free medical attention to the low-waged class, is seriously hampered by lack of doctors. In London, the 1,440 panel doctors haw been reduced by 170 who have joined the forces at the front, leaving 1,270 to look after the city’s 1,500,000 insured persons. If the remaining number is further reduced by the new armies, the medical benefit of the insurance act may be allowed to lapse, which would bring great suffering upon the poor.

South Africa’s Fruit Export*. It is anticipated that large quantities of oranges and other citrus fruits will be available for shipment from South Africa to England during the coming season. In another four years the South African shipments of such fruit will, according to the estimate of C. du Chiappini, British government trades commissioner to South Africa, amount to 400.000 boxes, and in ten years to 4,000,000 boxes annually. Greece Export* Much Opium. Opium is such an important article of export from Greece that it ranks third in the country’s export list, coming after tobacco and currants. There opium exports in 1914 on account of the war, which reflected to Saloniki shipments of the drug which would otherwise have been lauded elsewhere Opium shipped from Greece is usaA for the manufacture of morphine.