Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1919 — INTERESTING FACTS [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING FACTS

Telegraph girls employed by the London general post office now number more than 6,500. The height of St. Paul’s cathedral, London, i s as many feet as there are days in the year. In Sweden the public houses are closed on Saturday, pay day, while the savings banks are kept open until midnight,. 1 Before the-war the number of—people in Great Britain holding government securities was 340,- ■ 000; today it is more than 20,- : 000,000. The palace of the former German emperor in Berlin at. one time kept 500 housemaids and >I,BOO liveried footmen in employment ■ ■ ——-—-—