Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1913 — Odd Bits of Fact. [ARTICLE]

Odd Bits of Fact.

The United States consumes 80,000,000 pounds of tea annually. A man can insure against loss in lotteries with a company at The Hague. - There are inore doctors per capita in New York city than anywhere else In this country. Sealing wax contains no wax. The Dutch throne has forty-one possible claimants. Potatoes steeped in sulphuric acid and subjected to pressure make an excellent substitute for ivory in the manufacture of billiard balls.