Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1918 — IN A NUTSHELL [ARTICLE]

IN A NUTSHELL

According to Josephus the wdlnut tree was formerly common in Pales* tine and grew luxuriantly around the Sea of Tiberius. The output of manganese ore in this country" in 1916 amounted to 27,000 tons, which was three times the production In IQJS. A Kentucky man has written to a Connecticut mayor please to find him a stepmother, “not too fat,” for hla four daughters Vibration is almost entirely eliminated from a new reciprocating pump la which cams are used instead of cranks to drive the pistons. Boston has tried successfully the experiment of having open-air moving pictures, which is an advance in conserving the public health. Although England’s ipeat Importations are very heavy coming from Australia and North and South America, 60 per cent of the supply is grown at home. The production of fuel briquettes in the United States last year exceeded 295,000 tons and was the greatest on record, being an increase of 33 per cent from the year before. The codfish has the reputation of being the goat of the sea. It will eat anything, and there are many records of it having performed some marvelous feats of swallowing. > Fedor F. Foss, mining expert on the Russian mission to the United States, has requested that firms making laborsaving machinery for use in mineral industries send catalogues and descriptive literature to him. All of the European armies have shoes without linings, and the new service shoe of the United States is made that w T ay. -It makes a better shoe, more sanitary, more comfortable and less likely to cause blisters.