Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1918 — STRAY NOTES [ARTICLE]

STRAY NOTES

The exiled czar of Russia is a great whist player. He formerly used more than 1,200 packs of cards a year at $7 a pack. Clarence Willard of St. Louis, now at Camp Funston, received by parcel post a letter from his friends which was 300 feet long. Howard Quimby of Armore, N. Y., caught several perch in the Kensico reservoir and found in the stomach of one two pearls, for which a New York jeweler offered $l4O. ■■l * A parliamentary committee has found that the production of all of London’s electric power in a few central stations would save 6,000,000 tons of coal a yeas- and greatly lessen the smoke evil.

Judge Charles W. Coleman of Goshen, N. Y., who was twenty-qne and who has been In continuous service for for-ty-six years resigned recently. Geological survey statistics show that 75,167,672 gross tons of Iron ore were mined in the United States last year, the greatest amount on record, an increase of more than 19,000,000 tons frotp the previous year. The biggest air-raid dug-out in England has just been opened to the public for use during air raids. It will accommodate 20,000 persons. The dugout is really an unfinished railway tunnel, 100 feet underground, on which work was discontinued at the beginning of the war. It is electric lighted and seats have been provided for 2,000 persons.