Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1905 — Odds and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odds and Ends.

The value of the British crown Jewels is estimated to be about £3,000,000. When the sparrowhawk is swooping down on its prey it cleaves space at the speed of 150 miles an hour. In 1,000 cases of the morphine habit collected from all parts of the world, the medical profession constituted 40 per cent of the number. Mnlodorous automobile and motor cycles are not allowed at Pontresina, the fashionable Swiss resort. Two missionaries from Afghanistan have arrived in Liverpool. Their Intention is to convert England to Islam. One of the fertile German manufacturers has put upon the market ■ substance called gastromyxin, which has the virtue of Increasing the natural yield of the pepsin in the stomach.