Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1917 — SOME POSTSCRIPTS [ARTICLE]

SOME POSTSCRIPTS

Two French scientists contend that ten per cent of the chickens in that country have tuberculosis and that tlfe disease runs as high as 28 per cent among poultry in some other nations. Water is heated in a new garbage Incinerator which contains a spiral grate made of bilfss pipes through which the water circulates, garbage being placed at the top of the device and falling as it is consumed. The more extensively it is used the better are the results obtained from a Swedish system for stimulating backward children by circulating electric currents through the air of the room in which they study. For automobile tourists a tireless cooker, refrigerator, set of vacuum bottles and dishes and silverware for six persons have been combined so compactly that the outfit can be carried on the running board of a car. That he has discovered a partly electrical and partly chemical process for the reduction of nitrogen suitable for fertilizers from relatively cheap and easily obtained material is the claim of a Brown university professor.— To safeguard the health of painters a British commission has advocated a law prohibiting the importation, sale or us J of any paint material containing more than five per cent of its dry weight, of a soluble lead compound. To obtain a powerful searchlight with a comparatively weak current, a Frenchman has mounted a number of Incandescent lamps on a revolving circle, each in -turn being illuminated briefly and their combined rays being collected by a reflector. —Houston I*OBt.