Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1916 — All Around the World. [ARTICLE]

All Around the World.

El ectrica 1 ma ch i n cry has been tnstalled in the world’s richest iron mine, which is in Lapland. T. E. Wilson, once an office boy, now draws $200,000 a year as head of a New York corporation. A calculator that shows the money values of one country in the terms of several others and applies the values to various weights and measures has been invented by an Englishman. The records of the American consulate at Grenoble, Erance, show shipments of women’s gloves to the United States during 1915 to the value of $1,168,819, compared with $1,875,185 In 1914. ’ According to a French scientist, digestion proceeds more swiftly when persons are recumbent than when erect because in the process of evolution the stomach has not advanced as rapidly as other organs. • Americans In Shanghai, China, are planning to form an American Country club. As there are 1,500 members of the American colony it is expected that the venture will be successful. Shanghai Americans already have a chamber of commerce, an Association for China, a bar association, a volunteer company, university club, women’s club, and other organizations.