Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1916 — CONDENSATIONS [ARTICLE]

CONDENSATIONS

Carl Gulott of Pendleton, Ore.; a musician, is enjoying the recovery of his sight in one eye after a period of ■complete blindness lasting 15 years. ~ Walking and he rushed to his home to behold his wife and child, neither of whom he had ever seen. Australia seems to have an inexhaustible supply of marble, which is found there in many colors, in addition to pure white. '• ■ ■ —

The balance wheel of a watch vibrates 300 times a minute, 432,000 times a day; or 157,680,000 times a year. As each vibration covers about ijjjE revolutions, the shaft on which the balance wheel js mounted makes 236,-520,000--revolution*in Us. -bearings each year. A farm engine driven by a gas motor has been invented in Europe that is equipped with its own producing plant for making gas from waste material, such as bark, sawdust br dry leaves.