Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — They Draw a Great Quantity. [ARTICLE]

They Draw a Great Quantity.

Roots draw enormous quantities of moisture from the soil and by this means it is discharged into the atmosphere. For example, the common sunflower was found to exhale twelve ounces of water in twelve hours, and an oak tree with an estimated number of 700,000 leaves wculd in the same way give off something like 700 tons of water during the five months it carries its foliage. Edison prefers to hire women to carry out the details of his electrical inventions, and credits them with more quickness and insight about the mysteries of machinery than men have. He is credited with saying that women “have more sense about machinery in one minute than men have in a whole lifetime,” and proves the sincerity of his'faith by keeping 200 women on his pay-roll. She “Colchester'’ Spading Boot ad. In other column. What the world demands to-day in business, commercial, religious or * social life is that a man shall bring things to pa3B. FITS.—AII Fitsßtoppedfree by Dr. Kline’* G’ eit Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day’s use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and J 3.00 trial bottle free to Fit cases. Send to Dr. Klme. ‘til Arch St.. Plilia. Pa.