Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1920 — BRIEFLY TOLD. [ARTICLE]

BRIEFLY TOLD.

The Ontario amusement tax has been increased 25 per cent. Hudson Bay Company's vessels carried thirteen million tons of food to French ports dring the war. The first vessel to sail from the Hudson Bay post was in 1668. Immigrants are arriving from South America in large numbers, most of them bearing cash and letters of credit valued at thousands of dollars. A train robber, recently killed, maintained a business manager to look after his affairs. The kaiser is writing, with his pen, a history of the war. Emeralds have become the rarest and most expensive of precious stones. An airplane flying across the Canadian border at Niagara Falls was stopped by. *a customs officer and duty collected. Sea birds devour a great number of fish, many birds eating six or seven fair sized mackerel in a single meal. To save two pet dogs deserted when a schooner sank near the Azores, the crew of one lifeboat rowed back more than one-quarter of a mile in a rough sea. Coal and sugar are exported to Canada from this country in great quantities in spite of the fact that there is frequently shortage here. Canada always seems to be sufficiently supplied with American sugar. The pay of a Negro janitor in any of the departments of the government in Washington is higher than the well-trained white schoolteacher. »