Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1916 — BITS OF INFORMATION [ARTICLE]

BITS OF INFORMATION

Electrical railways In the United States represent a value of about $750,000,000. So thoroughly have the men been Instructed to avoid it that trenchfoot is jaow regarded as a crime among Canadian troops in France. Turkey’s celebration of victories is said to be done by order of the police, a heavy fine being the penalty for not putting up the flag when one is told to do so.

Cost of government meat inspection is said to amount to four cents per capita annually. The Victoria F alls and Transvaal Power Company (Ltd.), of Johannesburg, is by far the largest power and lighting company in South Africa, and it supplies from its four large stations nearly all the go’d mines and reef -towns with both power and light transmission being by three-phase long-dis-tance, 40,000 volts overhead. Distribution is by 20,000 volts under ground and 10,000 overhead.