Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1914 — SOME POSTSCRIPTS [ARTICLE]

SOME POSTSCRIPTS

An Illinois inventor's automobile jack is designed to distribute the strain evenly the entire length of an axle. The Panama canal lock 'gates are receiving a coating of. marine paint that will average one-sixteenth of an inch thick. A motordriven machine, operated by one man, has been Invented to harvest sugar cane and deliver it ready for the mill. A new solder for aluminum is made in the form of tubes which Contain a flux, which melts with the solder as a tube is heated, An English artist sketches submarine landscapes by descending with a diver's helmet and using waterproof paper and crayons. The bark of the Australian mangrove tree, of which there is a limitless supply, has been found valuable tor tanning leather.