Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1910 — FACTS IN LITTLE [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN LITTLE

Soap suds is a ready remedy for burns. OU and coal are successfully burned together under boilers in England. A pretentious electric plant near Hamburg, Germany, is driven by a wind-mill. In Russia you must marry before eighty or not at all, and you may marry only five times. A tribe of Brazilian Indians clothe themselves in nothing more nor less than a piece of pottery. Death Valley, Cal., Is 278 feet below the sea level, the lowest point of dry land In the United States. A process has been discovered by which tea and" coffee is robbed of its toxic qualities without interfering with the flavor. In Abyssinia the wife is master. If her husband offends her she can turn him out, for the Bouse and its belonging are hers. At the bottom of the sea the temperature remains practically unaltered at any one spot throughout the whole of the year. White horses are barred from service in the German army because they are too conspicuous when smokeless powder is used. The air is clarified effectively by keeping the blades of a ventilating fan moistened with water. This collects all the impurities. Spanish telephone companies make their charges according to the occupation of the patron. Social clubs labor under the highest rate. All animals have a weather instinct The approach of rain is indicated by the flight of swallows, by the cries of water fowl, and by the actions of cows and pigs.