Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1917 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS

Coast guard stations will be equipped with airplanes for rescue and observation work. 1 When water In a minnow pail cannot b? ehanged often a bicycle pump ■blowing air in the water Is worth while. A parachute which can We guided by pulling cords that draw in its sides ■has been invented, in France. A new pocket to protect valuables being carried about is designed to be attached to the lining of shoes. A deer’s new horns are called “velvet” because they grow inside of a tough skin which is coarse and brown, like plush. For a long time he will not thrash his horns In the brush. A luminous paint for automobiles invented in England is said to be so es-. fective that a car coated with ft is visible at night for two miles without the |pae of lamps.

Visitors to Sing Sing will be barred from seeing the death chair under a new order. The supply of singing birds has been cut-off by the war and canary / prices are soaring. 1 — The Big Horn or Rocky Mountain sheep can travel as far over the mountain peaks in a few minutes as a hunter can go in two hours. , The German Mauser can fire faster than any other rifle used in the war. The magazine holds five cartridges, picked in charges. — r '

The Venezuelan government by law has prescribed a standard of purity for butter, and has forbidden the sale of any that is adulterated. * Either a direct or alternating electric current, or one supplied by dry batteries, when neither of the former is available, will operate a newly invented dental engine. South African fanners are planting larger areas in sisal than they have dope in the past, recognizing that the cost of operation decreases as the sizs of the plantation is enlarged.