Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1917 — Popular Science. [ARTICLE]

Popular Science.

Five per cent ,of all storage eggs are spoiled because of minute breaks in the shell. A little more care in handling would z save them. The chimney sweep- has persisted longer in Paris than in any other city, but his gradual disappearance in that city is noted now. The long, silky fiber of the silk-cotton tree, found principal-. Iv in Jamaica, is extensively used for making stuffing for pillow cushions. Shark killing is now accomplished with greater facility by means of an electrified wire through which a severe shock Is given as soon as the fish takes thebait.—„ . Blind persons are enabled to write letters neatly by means of a gauge which holds the paper and guides the pencil regularly across the surface.