Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1917 — TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES [ARTICLE]

TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES

'Jhe United States has 380 piano sac- , tories. ' v . Argentina Is not taking kindly to foreign soft drinks. Australia’s peart fishing industry is jbelng held up hy the war. A scoop which is also a scale has s been invented hy man in Mobile, Ala. Three breweries went out of business In , St. Louis within 30 days last - wmi- • - ■

Holland offers a market for American filing cabinets. One hundred and fifty aristocratic families of Spanish descent, are said* t» govern Chile. An extremely hard artificial wood of German invention is made of sawdust and chloride ,of magnesium. An airplane with seven planes drranged hi A semicircle h* claimed by its French inventor to be perfectly stable.

• * - Phinn is once n)<»re offering » profitable market for American metals. . \ Tlie seraphine whs a keyed musical instrument now obsolete, which preceded the harmonium. During n recent thunderstorm in Lunsford. Pa.. lightning struck a tel-' ephone pole three times. Pink bolhvorms have increased the severity of their attack* on this year 9 * cotton crcp in Egj’£t._