Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1916 — GATHERED FACTS [ARTICLE]

GATHERED FACTS

!n times of peace London contains 16 embassies and legations representative of foreign countries. The stiffed plover is so named because of its long, stiltlike legs. Only “*■ one species is -found- in England-. v V In the calendar year 1915, in which "the United States made such marked advances industrially and in trade, the trade of the teiritory of Alaska •howed an increase of more than $12,1900,000 prer the preceding year.

A patent has been granted for a handcuff that cannot be accidentally locked, therefore always is ready for use. The tower of a tall church in Switzerland haß been equipped to receive the time signals sent out by wireless telegraphy -from the Eiffel tower in. Paris. An induction balance has been devised for the purpose of finding buried shells in the soil of a former battlefield, so that the farmer may go over it safely with the plow. r . *>