Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1907 — Faulty Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Faulty Statistics.

“The Department of Agriculture has figured out,” he read from the paper, “that rats cost the people of this country $100,000,000 a year." “John Henry,” replied his wife, “I don’t believe a word of It. Why, mine only cost 85* cents, some women make itheir own, and some wear their hair flat. Huh, can’t tell me!”—Philadelphia Ledger. According to the British Medical Journal the total number of cremations In Great Britain in the year 1905 was 600, as against 566 In 1904 and 475 in 1903.