Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1918 — BITS OF INFORMATION [ARTICLE]

BITS OF INFORMATION

C. ». Woodhead. ace seventy-two. of & n Fro nel seo, for forty-five years has iiiten only orifc meul dally. I»ayid It. Burke.v, a Civil war vet(*r n, ape eighty. of'Philadelphia, takes a :*» Malle hike for h's dally exercise. Mrs. Bnlph Krwiu of Bartlesville, OM«.. knit a man's sweater in eight ■hours and forty minutes. She has knitted t v sweaters in 12 days. The first one was completed in 18 hours and the next in 14. . ‘

People of Denmark have extensive business enterprises in Russia, all the way from Reval in the west to \ ladostok In the east. It Is only since the fall of 1915 that the exports of butter have stopped. For shipping purposes a canvas hamper has been invented which has a steel frame so constructed that it can be folded flat when it is empty. Experimental drilling has disclosed oil of good quality in northern Sicily, where for years it has been believed that there were petroleum deposits.

The army of the Netherlands has 'been provided with a portable motionpictures how that is transported from post to post ou a specially designed motortruck. Made of a single piece of wire, a book holder has been invented that stands upon a reader’s lap or chair and leans against a table, leaving its user’s hands free. For removing the soldered caps from tin cans so they may be used again a ring of metal that, when heated, melt* the solder has been invented.