Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1917 — Around the World. [ARTICLE]

Around the World.

Many of the ostriches of South Africa are incubator hatched. Most of the inhabitants of Bagdad live in the cellars during the day. Thq potatoes of Greenland seldom grow larger than the marbles used by the small boy. Rabbit hair is supplanting wool in the felt hat making industry of Australia. El Paso’s jail has steel “sun parlors” in which prisoners may get fresh air and sunshine without possibility of escape. The wreck record of the Baltic sea is greater than that of any other body of water in the world. The average is one a day throughout the year.