Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1917 — FACTS WORTH KNOWING [ARTICLE]

FACTS WORTH KNOWING

The rork oak'.yf-Spain is said to grow best in poorest soil. The annual rice production of Japan has readied the 2.'.'0,000,000-bushel mark. . -The longest river in Japan is the Tone, its main coarse being about 200 infles long. „ „ English stfeet rail ways are experimenting' with a compound rail, the wdrn parts of which can be renewed ; without disturbing the roadbed.

Emery L. Barnes of Lebanon. N. H., has put his autoinpblle into practical use hy cutting his hay with it. Instead of using horses to draw the mowing* machine he hitched on his automobile and dragged the cutter over the field rapidly. Hamilton, 0., has celebrated its one hundred' and' twenty-fifth birthday. Battles in human blood between white corpuscles and disease germs have been photographed with the mo-, tion picture camera by two French scientists.

December is the wheat- Harvest month in New South, Jl'ales. v increased its acreage under cultivation in grains by more than 20 per cent over the 1914 figures. Eugene Dynner, age sixteen, Austrian by birth, Is the youngest wireless operator in the United States. He Is employed, ou a freight steamer- running between New Haven and New York. He Is the heir to his uncle’s estate and title in Austria. The estate Is worth SIOO,OOO ’