Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1916 — TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES [ARTICLE]

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Adders are most irritable just after recovering from hibernation, and their bites then are perilous. Twelve field parties will continue this year the government survey of the mineral resources of Alaska. Nigeria has been added to the lands in which valuable deposits of coal have been discovered in reeent years. Philadelphia schoolchildren, by contributing pennies, have endowed a bed in a hospital for consumptive l *. mm&i ."7 ■ ■ ~

The first class of Chinese students trained to read their own language by means of the newly-invented alphabet was graduated in March. Although situated in the heart of the Midland coal field, Nottingham, England, is experiencing a serious coal famine, chiefly due to a scarcity of mine laborers. Experiments In the Philippines In crossing native tobacco with, a Connecticut,, variety Ijave produced a tobacco selling sos more than twice the price Of the native.