Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 225, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1917 — FROM ALL OVER [ARTICLE]

FROM ALL OVER

There is an opening in Yunnan City, China, for the Introduction of soap. One hundred pounds of beef shrink to 67 pounds after ordinary roasting. Mushrooms contain a considerable proportion of nitrogen, but so do crab shells. Tn Germany wireless waves have been utilized to light and extinguish gas lamps. —— —— - Lack of foreign, competition has created a large market for American shoes In Chile. A dealer In Mexico is seeking a market In this country for salted calf and other skins. Alabama is the fifth state to enfranchise women since 1917 began, making 18 suffrage states. The trade in dried shark meat and fins at Aden, Arabia, has decreased since ths beginning of the war. , __ • , ■, - . .. „ —: There will be a market for agricultural implements in Siam w’hen the irrigation and development of arid districts is completed. The famous GnbeMn tane®tri<*s. still made in a factory owned by the French government, arc woven from the reverse side, a workman watching the design through the web as it is reflected in a morror.