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

CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS

We have had envelopes since 1830. The Civil war cost the United States $3,000,000,000. A newly Invented butter pick has a lever attachment which pushes off its point a piece of butter that It has picked up. A cutlery steel asserted to be nonrusting. unstalnable and untarnlshabie has been developed by British manufacturers. -r-- rr In order to prevent oil waste a frame which will hold a heavy oil can and permit it to be tipped for pouring has been Invented. According to the last available figures in Great Britain, 843 new works of fiction were published in a year, against 309 naval and military books. Without stopping his train an engineer can move a lever in his cab and open a recently patented switch to enable him to enter a siding, the switch closing when the last car has passed over it. Many of the kings of Spain accorded to the finest swordmakers of Toledo certain privileges- snch as exemption from certain imposts and duties appertaining to the sale of’ swords, the purchase of iron and steel and other primary material. The state of South Australia has, since 1891, erected 29,148 miles of “vermin fences,” enough to encircle the globe and with the remnant build a double line of fence along the southern border of the United States. New South Wales has spent more than $27,000,000 for rabbit extermination and has within its borders 98,000 miles of fence. —' —--