Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1916 — POSTSCRIPTS [ARTICLE]

POSTSCRIPTS

The government of Ecuador has established a course in scientific agriculture at Its central unlversty. Madrid gets its electricity for lighting and power from a hydroelectric plant 120 miles from the city. A New Jersey Inventor's turret head enables ordinary screw machine work jto be done on an engine lathe. . A new thief-proof shopping bag for ’women cannot be opened as long as it fastened to its owoor'i wrist. ;—,

An Englishman has invented a cover for hatchways on vessels that operates on the principle of a roll top desk. German Iron founders are trying to Increase the use of furnace slag In place of gravel and crushed stone and concrete. Apparatus has been invented to pe>mit a man about to urul>*rgo a surgical operation to administer his oWn anesthetic. • The United States leads the World in scientific fish propagation. i