Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1917 — THINGS WORTH KNOWING [ARTICLE]

THINGS WORTH KNOWING

William de Morgan began his literary career at the age of slxty-six. , In ancient times the city of Tyre was famous for its output of purple. Stevenson’s “Virginibus Puerisque” was finished before he was thirty-one. Shakespeare was twenty-eight years old when he wrote “Rqmeo and Juliet.” The poet Shelley was an Immortal before he died at the age of thirty. Tn the Bible purple is spoken of as a highly prized and honor-bearing color. s When he was between thirty-two and thirty-six, Whitman wrote “Leaves of Grass.” An ice shaver operated by a crank has been invented that can be used on a block of ice within a refrigerator. The Central railroad of Georgia employs 10 woman agents, whose duty it is to solicit and handle all freight and other matters pertaining to this end of the business. Small wood-working machinery is needed in Peru. A few furniture factories are now equipped with electric driven machines which came from Belgium and Germany. Fraeulein Thea von Puttkamer, attached to the Turkish forces operating in Mesopotamia, is the only woman war correspondent officially recognized by the German government.