Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1916 — ITEMS OF INTEREST [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST

To protect baggage as it is unloaded at railroad stations, movable platforms have been designed, made of pieces of old airbrake hose fastened across resilient wooden strips. The report of the United States bureau of the census on the production of alums in the United States shows that the total output for 1914 was 313,’712,000 pounds, valued at $3,407,969, compared with 276,291,000 pounds, valued at $3,022,355 in 1909.

In mineral wealth Mexico stands in the first rank among nations, since Its riches are practically inexhaustible. William Bennett of Elkland, l‘a„ a native of Preston Bisset, Buckinghamshire, England, has 60 cousins fighting with the British army in Belgium and France. Horseflesh as food was Introduced Into Gaul when the country was invaded by the Franks after the conquest by Julius Caesar. Records relative to 1404 show that it was eaten in Paris at that time. .