Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1916 — GATHERED FACTS [ARTICLE]

GATHERED FACTS

■ The Vienna chamber of commerce han opened a branch at Petrikan, Poland, from which it expects to push Austro-Hungarian business interests throughout the districtOfßussian pnland now occupied by Austro-Hun-garian armies. It is estimated that $10,000,000 worth of gold is destroyed annually by a Chinese custom of burning small pieces of gold leaf on certain anniversaries.

Munition workers are responsible for a freak fad. It is the ‘‘gunpowder ring,” a finger band carved from solid powder.. The rings are whittled with penknives by the millworkers. Some are set with small .stones and chips. The number of liquor licenses issued In all the five boroughs of Greater New York last year was About 12,000. The state’s share, net revenue, was around $5,000,000; the city’s, about $5,700,000. Polish women are renowned for the beauty of their hands.

W. A. Rogers and Miss Anna Games Bock were married at St. Charles, Mo, recently. Each has only one arm, the bridegroom having lost his right in an accident, and the bride being minus her right. Recent examination of the coal de“indicates that they contain more than 1,000,000,000 tons of fuel of remarkable purity. In a German city garbage is collected, treated by a drying process and mixed with molasses to form cat tie feed. * ‘