Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1917 — World Now Saving Waste [ARTICLE]

World Now Saving Waste

Leather w-aste is an important Ingredient of the best grade wall paper. . i ' . Tin cans are used extensively in the manufacture of toy soldiers by Japanese toymakers. From a mixture of sugar cane refuse and bamboo fiber a Trinidad planter has made paper equal in quality to the best wood pulp product. The oil in the kernels of plum, cherry and other fruit stones is being extracted in Germany by a combined chemical and mechanical process. In Switzerland a stream of water onlyan inch in diameter has been harnessed after a fall of 5,400 feet and made to produce 3,000 horse power.