Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1918 — CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS [ARTICLE]

CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS

Florida contains about 4,000.000 acres of land waiting to be reclaimed by proper drainage. Contracts for draining almost the entire Everglade region have been made. A dog in Hennifler, N. H., in pursuing a hedgehog, climbed from limb to limb of a tree to a height of 40 feet. It took the help of three boys to get him down. A compass invented in France for aviators shows the deviation from any set course in addition to pointing toward the north. A two-wheeled trailer with ,a capacity of a ton of coal and which can be hauler! behind a runabout automobile has been invented. An electrical device of European invention to enable a moving train to set a signal makes use of a slight sinking of a rail as a train passes over it. The use of the magnetic pulley to remove particles of-certain metals from nonmagnetic material in bulk has extended io 34 different industries,