Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1916 — CONDENSATIONS [ARTICLE]

CONDENSATIONS

The tallest man in the world is not above criticism. Seaweed offers a prolific source of fuel oil when present supplies are exhausted,according to ah English scientist,.-who has obtained seven gallons from a ton of vegetable matter. Physicians have decided that several forms of nervous diseases, sometimes dangerously severe, can be caused by persons standing up and holding straps while riding in street cars.

The northernmost ostrich farm in the world is in a suburb of Stockholm. The birds were taken there last year. They spent the winter mostly in the open, in perfect health, and toward the end of May the females laid their eggs,-Just as if they had been m South Africa. It takes six weeks to hatch an ostrich egg. C The total coal supply of the world ban been estimated at 7,397,533,000,000 tons, of which nearly 4,000,000,000,000 tons are bituminous, Asia having the largest quantity of any continent.