Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1916 — CONDENSATIONS [ARTICLE]

CONDENSATIONS

Admiral Jellico entered the British naty as a cadet before he was thirteen years of age, and now has been in the service for 43 years. A great system of wiadruills ia. being experimented with tn Kansas to pump the underground water to the surface for the purpose of irrigation. Concrete arches resting on bed rock have been built In a “New Hampshire cemetery to support gravestones in, land too soft to support Uiem itself. .

The Hohenzollern fortune, which totaled |5,Q00,000 when the great grandfather of the present kaiser died, is now estimated at seven times that figure. Eighteen months ago the kaiser paid a military tax of $965,000. There are many earlier...recprd.s of human affairs, but the first historian now recognized as such was Herodotus, the great Greek, who wrote in the fifth century B. C. The Old Testament and the Book of Kings are also, of course, among the most ancient of historical works.