Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1917 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

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A flower which grows in China is ♦white at night but red in the sunlight London weddings during 1915 numbered 58.854, compared with 43,373 in 3014 and 41,409 in 1913. Puebla (Colo.) unions have purr chased a labor temple for $45,000. In a large Eastern city a bookshop .especially for women is operated. Tn the last 100 years more than |3,000,000 Bibles have been distributed flfl JgQfWft V. - I—-'..— . -—-- ,

The religions in Russia are almost as diversified as the races. In European Russia the Greek church rules. In Asiatic Russia there are Mohammedans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians. After almost three years of searching two Spanish mining engineers have discovered deposits of platinum in that country that apparently cover i wide area. • ' Sixty dollars a ton Is now paid for steel which, two years ago, cost less than half that amoqpt,