Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1915 — CONDENSATIONS [ARTICLE]

CONDENSATIONS

Accoiding to English figures, the world’s consumption of tea is stead!* ly increasing and the demand for British tea far exceeds the supply. A hollow wooden hall, six feet in diameter, which is moved by the flow of the sewage, is used to remove obstructions from sewers in Paris. * J* Concrete arches resting on bedrock have been built In a New Hampshire cemetery to support gravestones in land too soft to support them itself. The United States navy will establish a wireless station on Cape Cod especially equipped to guide vessels along the Atlantic coast in time of fog. The practice of planting cowpeas on sugar lands between crops to increase the soil fertility is being successfully Introduced In the Philippines. - King George of England Is the inventor of a stove that will serve as an .open grate in one room of a house and cook meals In the usual way In another. ; A bill has been Introduced In the California legislature providing pay of $2 for each day lost by people arrested and tried for crime who escape conviction. It has been estimated that the earth ?an maintain a population of 6,000,000,000 —a total which will be reached about A. D. 2100 at the present rate >f Increase. In the Russian army a "chief singer,” who receives extra pay, marches in front of each company of soldiers and gives the opening lines of the verses. Fire losses and the expense of fire prevention cost the United States more each year than the total value of its production of gold, silver, copper ’and petroleum. A remarkable fog on the Peruvian coast is known as the “garua.” It occurs in a region where rain is unknown, and supplies sufficient moisture to support vegetation. Alligator eggs are eaten by the natives on the west coast of Africa. In taste they, resemble the egg of the domestic hen, but are larger and slightly stronger in their flavor.