Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1916 — WORTH KNOWING [ARTICLE]

WORTH KNOWING

A stick of wood was recently shipped from British Columbia to England, which was 218 feet long. It will be used as a flagpole in Kew gardens. Baboons possess a remarkable instinct for finding water, and have been used few that purpose th South Africa. The tusks of an African elephant sometimes weigh as much as 100 pounds, and reach nine feet in length.

Serbia is said to lead in Centenarians, and Ireland is a close seebnd. , There are a bout 1.300-gas plants in this country. Serious troubles, if they he not too serious or numerous, are beneficial in that they teach us the folly of taking the w trlviai ones much to heart. Father will carry an armful of packages two miles for the good-look-ing wife of a neighbor, but mother says if she wants him to bring in one scuttleful of coal he raises all sorts of a racket.

Custom in China discourages the photographing of women. The buildings of Amsterdam are built largely on pilings. The town hall stands on 13,000 such supports. Experiments have shown thpt excellent paper can be made out of grape vines. The Mexican seacoast on the Pacific, find the gulf of California is 4,574 miles. , f Argentina is constructing a single irrigation system which, will cost $60,oou.ooo.