Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1917 — MUCH IN LITTLE. [ARTICLE]

MUCH IN LITTLE.

Cultural stations of the United States bureau of fisheries produced more than 5,000,000 fish and eggs in the year ending with June, a new high record. The timber possibilities of British North Borneo are to be Investigated by an expert from the United States whom the government has employed. In an experimental way, at least, an Italian inventor’s wireless apparatus transmits written messages, sketches, shorthand characters and various designs. As a. substitute for a grocer’s scoop an inventor has patented a pump that lifts dry articles from their containers, which remain closed to exclude dust. A well-known motion-picture actress has designed an automobile which serves her as a dressing room with almost as many conveniences as a dressing room in a theater provides. From the speed at which earthquake waves travel through the earth an English scientist has constructed a theory that the world has a dense central core, which may be measured in time. In the cities of the Seville consular district there appears to be a growing tendency toward outdoor recreation, which should afford American manufacturers of sporting goods an opportunity to ship their wares to Spain.