Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1917 — CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS [ARTICLE]

CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS

A Montana forestry official has devised a light and compact-telephone Instrument which is portable and will be part of the equipment of all government rangers in the future. Mayor Amos Iladcliffe of Patterson, N. J., helped lower a boy on a rope from a bridge to rescue a cat on a “rock in the river. Kitty sank tier claws in the seat of the boy’s trouaers. The breeches buoy rescue was auecessful. - - -

Welsh coal owners have refused the workmen’s application for a new audit of their books to regulate wages. A system of shorthand writing for the Chinese language has been invented in Hongkong, a speed of 140 words a minute having been acquired by the inventor, who is teaching his method. Francis Jones, New York negro subway porter, threw a bucket of water on what he thought was burning paper and went back to work. When he discovered It was a bomb he fell down a flight of stairs. ~ ■