Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1911 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Servian government has ordered 100 American typwriters for government use. ) The United States takes nearly onefourth of the nitrate production of Chile. ' ' *v ■ ... "i >• ' The total quantity of lumber sawed in the United States was 26.9 per cent greater in 1909 than ih 1899. " ■ ■% V ■ There recently died in England' a man who had spent 74 of his. 73 years In a workhouse. ■ '/iv Though the bulk of our lumber exports have not greatly increased In recent years, the valuation shows Imm* tic strides. Exportation of American typewriters increases constantly. In 1910 It was 18,848,464. Many of the municipal enterprises in the County of Yorkshire, England, were financial failures last 'year. British cotton exports this yeqr show a marked gain, particularly In South America, China and Japan. California pine has bedfc grown successfully In Chjle and Is in great demand there for many purposes. Great Britain imported $3,804,400 wotrh of American scientific instruments In 1910, against $1,056,220 worth in 1909.