Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1916 — TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES [ARTICLE]

TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES

Computlng the population of European and Asiatic Russia at 180.000,000, and allowing five bushels per head for food and seed, the consumption of ■wheat in that region would amount to 900.000,000 bushels a year. A new attachment made to fire plugs transforms them into sanitary drinking fountains. One-fourth of Australia I* yet un * explored.

Each human being takes about eighteen breaths a minute, or nearly 26,000 a day. The first Japanese school books in Roman characters have just been made. No less than 5,000 inventions have been submitted to th® naval board in seven months. Tne fuel value of garbage is onetenth that of coat : / ;