Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1910 — SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY [ARTICLE]

SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

There are said to be 130,000 foreign waiters employed in London. The temperature of steam at one pound pressure is 216.3. At thirty pounds pressure it is 274.3. A 2,000-year-old oak tree stands near Dax, Prance, the branches of which shelter 500 persons. Only about one of every thousand married couples lives to celebrate the golden wedding anniversary. The great majority of immigrant arrivals at the present time are coming from Austria, Russia and Italy. A graps basket more than sixteen feet long was made for exhibition in a recent parade at Westfield, N. Y. News paper is made by machinery at, •the rate of 150 to 400 feet a minute,# according to width and quality. Lettuce as a food plant has a record of being eaten by Persian kings more than two thousand years ago. The Carnegie Steel Company pays about one-seventh of the entire taxes collected by the city of Youngstown, Ohio. Using electricity. Nome, Alaska, the most -northerly town—in—America,—isone of the best lighted cities in the world. _ An elephant Jn the wild state has such a delicate sense of smell that it can detect an enemy nearly a mile away.

Chicago made a new building record for itself in 1909, when the cost of buildings of all kinds erected made a grand total of $90,000,000. A recently invented rescue stretcher for mines has oxygen tanks at one end opening into a bag into which a man’s head and shoulders may be placed. There has been invented in Spain a cylindrical barrel for grapes, divided into four sections, to ventilate the contents and prevent them being crushed. The Marblehead, one of the oldest cruisers in the navy, has been commissioned in the service of the California state naval militia at Mare Island. For use in manual training schools a Wisconsin man has patented a tool chest which may be converted into a work bench by clamping it to the top of two desks. A balanced grand piano has been invented in England. One side is a duplicate of the other, and the lid is hinged in the center so as to distribute the sound waves evenly. An arm to he suspended over a roll of wrapping paper, carrying a roller to imprint merchant’s advertisement on every piece of paper torn off, is a New York man’s invention. A Pittsburg widow, who was compelled to sell her beautiful hair in prder to keep her children from starving, has received an offer of marriage from a rich man in, Oklahonfa. According to the last census there were in Holland about 2,620,000 head of live stock, nearly one-half cattle. The dairy ration is composed largely of oil meal or oil cake and grass or hay. A metal seat, hinged and suspended by chains from a window casing, has been patented by an Ohio man for window cleaners as well as for use as a shelf on which food may be placed to cool. Gold pieces are the only coins of the United States which are worth their face value intrinsically. A double eagle contains S2O worth of gold, without counting the one-tenth part of copper. On the principle of the slide trombone is a gas fixture invented by an Indiana man, so constructed that the burner may be slid to any point along the wall of a room where the light is most needed.

The Porto Rican agricultural experiment station reports that Java cofTee growing is now being introduced into the island to meet the demand In the United States for “a highly flavored aromatic coffee.” For telephoning from a moving train an lowa man has patented a device consisting of a metal bar to be suspended from a locomotive or car low enough to come in contact with standards set in the ties. The first trust in the United States to pass the $100,000,000 mark in capitalization was the United States Leather Company, organized In 1893. Its capital stock combined with an issue of bonds amounted to $138,000,000. Calgary, with its 30,000 population and the commercial center of 50,000,000 acres of rich farm land in the province of Alberta, Canada, owns its own street railway, electric light plant and water works and has 900 employes on its city pay roll. Ten years ago the city had in it less than 5,000 people, and it expects to have 100,000 in 1015. To get. rock for the Morena dam in Southern California, one of the biggest blasting operations on record has just been successfully carried out. A tunnel 125 feet long was first driven into the face of the granite. In this chamber was placed 38,950 pounds of powder and dynamite. This was'exploded by electric fuses, and dislodged 120,000 cubic yards of rock.—Engineering Record: While some tobacco Is produced in almoßt every State, less than 1 per cent of this country’s crop is grown west of the Mississippi, Texas being the only trans-Mississippi state in which the industry has gained much importance. Kentucky leads all the States in tobacco growing. It produces more than one-tljird of the United States crop and about one-ninth of the entire crop of the world.