Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1918 — Notes of Interest [ARTICLE]

Notes of Interest

Clothing made of pressed feathers as a substitute for wool has been invented by an Italian priest A gasoline blow torch supplies the heart for a new cooking stove for campers that cannot be blown out. A pneumatic lateh with which a door may be opened from distant points has been patented. A new mop for washing automobiles has a hollow handle through which water is fed by screwing it to hose. The extermination of all flies is the aim of two British • physicians who are experimenting with a parasite that kills the insects.