Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1917 — THINGS THAT ARE NEW [ARTICLE]

THINGS THAT ARE NEW

Short telescopes take the place of I lenses in spectacles of German invenition for extremely near-sighted perFor Ironing laces affd other light fabrics an Englishman has invented a polished steel roller, heated by electJ*A *new type of Incandescent lamp has the fllament concentrated Ihto a small spiral to give a greater vertical •distribution Gs llCht . • -

The word “plate” is often incorrectly applied to vessels of gold. It is derivefl from the word plata, which In Spanish means wrought silver. Electric automobiles have been adopted for garbage collection fn Paris after a series of tests phowing them more economical and flexible than other vehicles. A small steam generator for medical purposes that has been invented by a German can be used to treat an entire human body or any single limb or organ. . - -

An inventor has combined an automobile horn and headlight, the sound being produced back of the lamp and issuing around it. The United States leads the world in the production of corn—known abroad as maize—producing more than two-thirds of the world’s supply. Manila hemp, from which the best rope is made, is known in the Philippines as abaca. It is a true banana plant and in appearance closely resembles the banana grown tn California. The. species is musa textilis. <