Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1916 — Around the World. [ARTICLE]

Around the World.

Spain has been practicing irrigation for more than a century, its first canal having been begun in 1814. To judge horse-races a Frenchman has invented a camera that is operated by a winning horse breaking a thread. John Malmberg of Manchester, N. H., has such large strawberries that 15 fill a box. Some of them are 6V4, inches in circumference, while most of them more than four inches around. New branches of the Russian-Ameri-can chamber of commerce have been opened in Kief and Odessa, thereby making it possible for American manufacturers to get into direct connection with southwestern Russia. The manufacture of wooden shoes in the Netherlands has expanded rapidly since the beginning of the war. Quantities of these shoes are being exported to Germany, where they are becoming popular on account of the scarcity of leather. In Providence, R. 1., is a barber shop in which the five barbers average nearly 30 years’ service each —Joseph Auty, the proprietor, 50 years; Edward Hunt, 34 years; Peter Misho, 29 years; Napoleon Loiselle, 24 years, and Paul Misho, 11 years. The shop was its first customers Sve sffyl patronizing it. \ | /