Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1917 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS

I Ancient Rome was built on seven hills. Tti" Spitz is a domesticated ja< kal. Kissing was at one time an essential part of the marriage service. ('.erronD naval authorities are experijXWifnjr with electrical machinery for gathering peatin the oidep time* the sultan was allowed;. seven kacbims, . there were seven principal officers of the court, , W nrt seven female court functionaries.

In Asia tu-ks are possessed only by the male elephants. Four pounds per capita ls the cbeefee product of this country annually. The Christian churches planted by theuposfles were seven. It has been computed that 25.000 vehicles pass Forty-secon<l_ street and Fifth avenue, New York, each day. More than 700,000 gallons of oil. are burned each-year at the light stations of the United States, about 350,000 gallons of which are f«?r lighthouse illumination.

! Sideline developments from the war lin Europe are endless. Just now London shops are featuring an egg cup \ for the use of men with only one arm. Black paper covers for celery plants make excellent ’bleachers. The paper ! comes in flat sheets, and is fastened about the plant by means of a string i and buttons. - The heavier the soil the deeper it i should be spaded. Light Soil needs more food and more stirring but only on the surface. Heavy soils are sel- ; dom stirred deep enough.