Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1917 — FROM NEAR AND FAR [ARTICLE]

FROM NEAR AND FAR

A new automobile spring lubricator resembles a hatchet, grease being contained in the handle and passing through the blade as it is Inserted between the leaves of a spring. To lessen the humming of telephone wires when fastened to buildings a system invented tba Europe encloses them in cement Cylinders that are softer on the inside than the outside. To facilitate rapid writing there ha,s been invented a metal device to be clamped to the little finger and with a shelf on which to rest the next finger and slide over a surface written upon. For tourists there has been invented a clothing closet mounted on a wire frame which can be folded and carried in a trunk, being extended and hung on a nail when a hotel room is reached. After experimenting for several years, Swedish railroad officials have -decided--that peat powder is an efficient and practical fuel for locomotives with a value about two-thirds that of coal. Because locusts are rich in nitrogen and phosphoric acid, the government of Uruguay has appointed a commission to ascertain if the insects cannot be utilized in fertilizers, soap and lubricants. To enable a rifleman to see where his bullets go an Ohio inventor has designed a target which, when hit, extinguishes lights In front of it and shows a light from the back through the bullet hole. Rubber tree tapping by a series of small borers set in a circle, the invention of an English expert in the Belgian Kongo, lias proven a more productive method than the customary vertical incision system.