Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1907 — LITTLE ABOUT EVERYTHING. [ARTICLE]

LITTLE ABOUT EVERYTHING.

The savings banks of Italy contain over $666,000,000. Great Britain Imports $900,000,000 of farm products a year. In Paris the average price of pure Only one couple In over 11,000 Mve to celebrate their diamond wedding. There is only one ordained mission- „ ary In the world for 900,000 heathens. The chair used by Napoleon at St. Helena was sold In London recently for SSB. V-* ’■ All the blood In a man’s body passes through his heart once every two minutes. The Germans give worn out horses a tonic of roasted coffee beans mixed with honey. ■ ' ....... Maine pays her elementary teachers an average of $1.20 a day for 313 days In the year. About 3,500,000 people are on the sea, either as passengers or seamen, every day In the year. The sum of 720,000 marks has been raised by the German army for the Moltke monument In Berlin. In Dresden, 300 years ago, “epicures” used to eat Venetian oysters that had been on the way three weeks. This notice Is shown in the shop of an English grocer: “Notice —The credit department Is closed for repairs.” "Steam or*’ and “steam camel” are the names given to automobiles by the natives of German Southwest Africa. . A well-dressed young woman was seen In Bond street, London, the other day, with a monocle affixed to her right eye. The King of Greece Is the greatest linguist among monarelis. He reads twelve languages and speaks most of them. - j A school for women chemists has been opened ast Dessau, Germany. Graduates can earn from S2O to S4B a month. The death mask of Heine, who detested such things, has been acquired by his student. Prof. Hans Meyer of Lelpslc. As early as 500 B. C. artificial eyes were made by the priests of Rome and Egypt, who practiced as physicians and surgeons. Sir Henry Irving’s birthplace at Kelnton, Mandevllle, which was put up at auction In London, was withdrawn at $3,000. There Is an agitation In Glasgow, Scotland, to have umbrella stands provided on the platform of the electric street cars. Same of the streets, of Warsaw, -Tolland, are paved with straw pressed Into blocks and made hard enough to be used for thlß purpose. Murders and homicides decreased more than 2,000 In the United States In the last ten years. Lynchings decreased one«half. The giant bamboo of Ceylon grows to a height of eighty feet. It Is used in construction of houses and bridges. Also, water pipes are made of It King Edward Is turning his attention to beautifying Windsor Park, which, since the death of the prince consort In 1861, has been sadly neglected. Thomas Clark, aged 78, a Mexican war veteran, recently danced a Lancashire clog at the machinists’ benefit minstrel show la Bellefontaine, Ohio. Motoring Is now so popular In the British navy that some officers carry their cars afloat with them. The Autocar says Lord Charles Beresford is one of them.