Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1907 — UNFAMILIAR FACTS. [ARTICLE]

UNFAMILIAR FACTS.

The professional criminals of London outnumber the policemen in the proportion of three to two. The home in Nashville, Tenn., of William Walker, filibuster, has been disposed of by his relatives. New York City has now In contemplation water front Improvements that will' require an expenditure of i <X),000. There are forty-eight different kinds of material entering Into the construction of a piano, and they are gathered from sixteen countries. The proposed New I’ork and Panama cable will be 2,200 miles in length. The only Intermediate station will be at Baracoa, Cuba. It is proposed eventually to extend the line into South Amer ica. The smoke from the bowl of one's pipe Is blue because, coming dtrectly fram the red hot tobacco, it is very highly oxidized; but the smoke from one's lips is gray, because It Is highly watered and hydrocarbonlzed. The daily return fare for thirty-one miles paid by a workman in Belgium is 714 cents, and fares for shorter or longer distances are proportionately • heap. As a result, 100,000 industri'il workers live In the country, although employed In the towns. Booker T. Washington, the founder of the Tuskegee school. Is opposed to colored people having their own newspapers. He says': ~“f ~ fear that our newspapers are at fault because they hold up our difficulties. People reading them see too many accounts of negro oppression, and we do not want cur race soured by such accounts.”