Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1918 — SOME POSTSCRIPTS [ARTICLE]

SOME POSTSCRIPTS

The babasu nut of Brazil is 60 per cent oil gnd one will burn half an hour if a match be touched to it-X Termed a book umbrella, a folding glass box has been invented to permit men to write out of doors when it rains. A company has been formed in Portugal vto develop the hydroelectric power'of the northern part of that country. A bent 10,000,000 acres of Astrakhan are covered with shifting sands, which are spreading at a rate of 100,000 aerfes- a year. To tack shades on rollers evenly and without hemming, a machine resembling a hand stapling machine has been invented.