Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1916 — CONDENSATIONS [ARTICLE]

CONDENSATIONS

The United States yearly produces $200.000,000 worth of buttons. The Chinese government Is about to open Its first aviation school. Pasteboard boxes with sanitary, in-isect-proof openings have been invented jfor containing sugar and .other food In similar form. ‘ F. C. Cutlef, a poultry dealer In Townshend J _ Kk t Js said to have a pullet that was hatched April 1 and laid Its first egg August 14. * - / *• '«■ '• \-V‘

Sudan grass yields from to eight tons of cured hay to i n acre. Every young man In Cednrvllle, Wis., a small settlement in Marinette county. Is n member of a newly organized anti-tobacco club. As a new seashore amusement device, an Inventor has patented u trolley car supported by floats that is driven over water by screw propellers, I Two Illinois inventors have patented a bracket with which It is possible to bang both shades and curtains at windo w£ without using Kills or screws.

A woman is the patentee of a telephone in which the transmitter and receiver are combined in one instrument and inclosed in a hood sor 1 privacy. A water tank and tower in a Texas town, built entirely of re-enforced concrete, has withstood gales that have wrecked dwellings in its vicinity. The resignation of Rev. Dr. C. C. Smith, pastor of the Baptist church at Uoodhouse, 111., left the town with a population of 2,000, without a resident pastor.