Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-06
TABLOID INFORMATION
The farm value OF the corn crop Of
. r,nitnI Stntns is Il -on 400 900

i lie ldIuI value VI Aue NulH tAoP VI
the United States is sl720 100000,
Today African Moslems number lit
'le less than 60.00O000, about one
third of the total population
Scientists are demonstrating that
nearly 50 per cent OF our bodily ills
are caused by mental worries ana hys-
terra
II was in the United States az a
whole that the census man found 215
cut OF every 1000 women in the rs to
% age period unmarried
Some predictions of our future pop
llation have placed ii much higher
than l600O0,o00 for 1850, one making
i as high as 20O,O0O,O00.
The worlds gold output has reached
Az average of about sl,250,0O0 for each
lay OF the year, and of that total the
Fransvaal mines furnish inward o.
one third
Ten years ago the total number OF
passengers carried one mile in the
United States was about 100000. In
ten yeaS time this has increased over
120 per cent, reaching total of 2s,'
100000.
Vines grow at the height Of 1880 feet
above the level OF the sea. trees at
800 feet, shrubs at $500 feet, a few
plants at $500 feet and higher than
this are found a few lichens. Vegeta-
ton ceases entirely at the height OF
about II 900 feet.
The rainiest place on the continent
# Europe 50 far as rhetorical records
show is Crkvice in the mountains OF
Dalmatia, back OF the Bay of Cattaro.
The canal zone makes community
Of about 1000 Americans, men women
and children-4500 men on canal work
and 925 on the Panama railroad, 1900
women, 1900 children.
The number of Jews in the wcIld is
l1,625,656. OF these, 1,903926 are in
America. The only country in the
world having a larger Jewish popula
ton is Russia, with 5,0S2,242, In the
iist of cities showing the percentage Vi
Jews to the population Jerusalem
comes first, with IS per cent; and
then Lodz, 1853, Odessa, 1915, and
Warsaw, 1886 The Jewish population
Of London is 228 per cent.
The cry Of alarm that the leaning
tower OF Pisa was taking on an in
creased tilt and would fall In the
course Of few years seems to be bas
ed on an error. and more recent and
careful observations show that there
mas been no change whatever in the
position Of the tower made fifty years
20. The alarming statements were
caused by some recent Investigators
making comparisons OF the tower with
one which was recorded In 1929, but
il is a well established fact that there
is very glaring error IN the latter
measurement
Hot air douches are being extern
siYely resorted TO at the present time
Dy physicians for the treatment OF
such diseases as lumbago, rfeumatlsni
and similar disorders. One form OF ap'
aaratus designed for this purpose IL
electrical, and consists OF a portable
electric fan motor. combined with an
electrical heater, 80 as to provide a
h.ast of 100 degrees centisra'e, or
more ii desired The power - secured
rom an ordinary domestic lighting
circuit The intensity of the heat IL
varied according to the speed 4,
which the blower is driven, and the
i, current utilized in the heating unit
20 that the device is in full control Of
t. g operator.
In a battle which has been wageL
AGAINST the smOle nuisance In tn.
larg, cities has arisen in demand fol
some apparatus by. which comparison.
of the air at different times and II
, ffefent localities may be made. fhn
, has been recently devised II consists
, Of a short tube, at one end Of which
has been mounted on a disk OF cellu
held, divided into lour hegments. la =.
Of these IL darkened 10 a varying de
gree of intensity. corresponding iron
a perfectly clear sky to one OF thor
o1gh darkness. In practice this ihstru
/, ment is turned IN the sky or the ema
nations OF chimney, for instance