Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 312, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1918 — CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS [ARTICLE]

CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS

Seventy-four members of the faculty and instructional staff of the University of Wisconsin are absent in various kinds of war service. Guadeloupe expects an abundant harvest of cocoa. Trees and pods are in excellent condition. The entire output of the colony goes to France. It is said that the United States exported by parcel post in 1915-16, 1,352,639 parcels, weighing 6,299,023 pounds; in 1914-15, 936,365 parcels with a total weight of 3,347,899. An Australian says he has discovered a new rapid tanning process with which sole leather can be tanned in seven days, calfskins in six hours and other skins proportionately quickly. Artificial gas is supplanting coal as a fuel in Philadelphia. It is also pointed out as ah incentive to its use that while the price of coal has soared that of gas la either unchanged or lower. The Lake Hemet dam in the San Jacinto mountains is said to imppund 4,000,000,000 gallons of water and to effect the irrigation of 10,000 acres in the Hemet and San Jacinto valleys. It cost about $2,000,000. The ordinary housefly can lift a match between two of its feet and carry it. A human being, to perform a similar feat, would have to lift a beam eight and a quarter yards in length find 16 inches thick.