Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1916 — TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES [ARTICLE]

TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES

• Italian army engineers will sink a large number of artesiaa. Vrells in an endeavor to convert a large area of desert land in Tripoli into an oasis by irrigation. Pulmonary tuberculosis is being treated by a Danish physician with air that has been subjected to the action of ultraviolet rays, which seems to have a healing effect when inhaled through the mouth,

A United States artillery officer has invented, a. camera that will photograph a mortar sbeir at the instant it leaves the muzzle of the gun, showing even the curious “smoke ring” or “gas ring” that accompanied the emerging shell. The shutter which can be adjusted to make an exposure as short as 1-500 of a second IS worked by electric motor which mates several thousand revolutions a minute,