Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1918 — DID YOU KNOW [ARTICLE]

DID YOU KNOW

A rubber plant doesn’t stretch when it wakes in the morning? It doesn’t affect an elevator’s health when It’s run down? By removing its shell, a safe can be carried much more easily. While just the opposite works with a dozen of eggs. And still more with a bucket of water. And it's quite a job to get a well up In the air. We can’t say whether a ball of yarn that gets tangled has that feeling of being all balled up. To remove crispness from a $5 bill, hang bill on lamp post at night and crispness will be gone In morning. In 62 A. D., when the sailors wanted to stop the boat, they ran up a mosquito net sail and lowered the full sail.