Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1915 — CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS [ARTICLE]

CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS

Oil fields are being developed in German New Guinea. Nearly four hundred women applied for patents in England last year. Bricks made of peat are being successfully used In Sweden for small buildings. Barcelona, Spain, does a large business in the manufacture of paper drinking cups. American women yearly buy more than $10,000,000 worth of millinery supplies from France. , Pittsburgh repojts a 50 per cent decrease in the number of money orders sent to Europe. Grand Duchess Marie Adelaide, ruler of the Independent nation of Luxemburg, is only twenty years old. Merle Hyer, a Lewiston (Utah) high school student, age seventeen, grew 380 bushels of potatoes on half an acre. The Japanese, it is said, are producing more than 20,000,000 tons of coal a year from mines in Japan and South Manchuria. By keeping watch on the incoming mall the Syracuse (N. Y.) post office officials have found 80 different spellings of the name of that city, Another invasion which is causing trouble In France is that of hordes of wild boars which have appeared along the eastern frontier from the German forests. The consumption’ of the banana In the United States has grown from practically nothing thirty or forty years ago to 30,000,000 bunches of the fruit annually.