Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1917 — MUCH IN LITTLE [ARTICLE]

MUCH IN LITTLE

Our garden radishes came from Asia. Tn 1879 ground was first broken by the steam plow. The supply of singing birds has been cut off by the war and canary prices are soaring. Most army cooks prefer the kerosene stoves to those burning wood. The Indians who know the bee only as introduced by the white settlers call it the “white man’s fly.” In its life of 160 years’only seven ministers have been pastor Of Scotch Presbyterian church, New York city. The painter, Horace Vernet, had a remarkable memory for color and line and could do a portrait from memory. Brazil is said to be capable of supplying a profusion of materials for dyeing purposes seldom found in one country. z ' . Several million steres of la nd in Cal-, ifornia are shortly to be irrigated at a total cost of $10,600,000 or $15,000,000. An alloy of 2 per cent palladium with silver is said to form a good substitute for platinum in contact and spark devices. Sirup of squills, for many years a favorite remedy for the relief of colds, is obtained from a plant known as Urglnea scilla. A motor sleigh built for a Russian grand duke has a cigar-shaped bbdy and is propelled by a suction turbine operating against the air in front. Japan’s last rice crop broke all records for that empire, having amounted to 298,466,766 bushels, which beat the former official high record (1914) by_6,630,270 bushels. • A self-irrigating flower pot has recently been invented, the Irrigation being provided by a wick extending from its saucer to the soil which it contains