Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1918 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS

The first self-moving gun car- i riage was invented InFrance in ’ 1769. 1 An alarm clock which awak- '■ -ens deaf sleepers by jarring their j beds has been invented in Ger- i many. i There is only one chance in ’ 17,000,000,000 for a mistake in ’ finger prints, according to a i French scientist. For hurrying a slow fire with* ] out danger to the user a paste i made of kerosene and wood , ashes has been found effective. ; Many of the toymakers of the ; Sonneberg district in Germany have now turned their attention to manufacturing munitions of ; war.