Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1917 — MUCH IN LITTLE [ARTICLE]

MUCH IN LITTLE

Turn flattery wrong side out andyou have slander. Stones marking the Mason and Dixon line bear the Penn and Baltimore family coats of arms. German Inventors have brought out an automobile which travels on three sets of movable Tunners Instead of wheels. _ Current is transmitted through ball bearings in a new swivel joint for telephone and electric light wires, designed to prevent them from twisting. Two Crimean veterans, probably the last in Ireland, have died recently. One was wounded at the siege of Sebastopol, and the other Denis Hellgfln, aged ninety-four, who had 88 years 1 service. The agricultural department at Washington has published complete reports on the caloric value of every known article of food! For Instance, a pound of pure lard would supply all the calories that a 200-pound individual would need in 24 hours. The law prohibiting the importation into France of foreign postage stamps has now been extended to apply to the stamps of France itself. The reason for this is that some 3,000,000 unused French stamps have been stolen by the Germans from post offices in the Invaded part of France, and it is desired to destroy their value to their present holders. Discussing the democratizing influence of the war in the Talyo Magazine, Koson Asada, a well-known publicist, says that Japan cannot expect to keep clear of the tremendous changes that are affecting the world. He adds: “The development of political parties and of the press have been most noticeable since the Russo-Jap-anese war, and this increased influence has gradually put the influence of clannlsm in the shade.”