Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1918 — CONDENSATIONS [ARTICLE]

CONDENSATIONS

A Detroit court has ruled that man-angels are out of place in front of a local cemetery and ordered the <culptor to make certain changes which will transform the effigies into women. For protecting fruit trees from frost an Inventor has patented a tent to be placed under them and diffuse through them the heat from a lamp Inside the tent. Mechanism consisting of a series of jointed strips of metal has been invented In Germany for raising or lowering several ventilators at once by manipulating a single lever. Water valves 12 feet in diameter and so constructed that they will close automatically in event of a break In the pipe line have been built for a hydroelectric plant in Utah. Twenty thousand dollars’ worth of cigarette paper was sent from the United States to the Philippines during the first six months of the past year. The total for the previous year was only $1,612. War-time conditions brought further change of fraternity rules at the University of Wisconsin. The faculty voted to amend the rule forbidding the Initiation of freshmen before the end of the first semester, so as to permit men’s societies .to take in first-year members at the middle of the first semester this falL if their academic standings are satisfactory.