Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1918 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mecca’s pilgrims annually exceed 100,000. Americans now chew $60,000,000 Worth < f gum a year. Rubber was first introduced into Europe in 1735 as erasers. Russia has more blind people than the rest of the world, two to one. Until 1874 tne Japanese used to vaccinate on the tip of the nose. There are 672 volcanoes in the world, of which 270 are rescribed aa active. Working women in Pennsylvania’s Industries are paid almost 175.000,000 a year. _ Anthracite coal mines in this country have more than 7,000 miles of tunnels. . There are 2 "\315 girl stenographers and typewriters employed in this country. Curfew comes from two French words, “Couvre feu,” which means "cover fire.” Oil fuel is used to some extent on no fewer than forty railroads in the United States. - ? The average wage of plumbers throughout the country is $5.00 for an eight-hour day. It is reported that a large number of Russians are about to colonize in South America.

There have been women sailors among the Finns and Norweigians for many years. A mounting of recent invention permits a single lens camera to take a stereoscopic picture. Turkeys derived their name from the fact that they were imported first into Europe through Turkey. An Egyptian nobleman’s tomb built 4,500 years ago, has been placed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. __________ ♦ South African mines are experimenting with a dustlaying preparation which has molasses as its base. South Africa has established a factory for the extraction of rubber from the roots and vines or rubber plants. Los Angeles city is rich, holding In the treasury, money, bonds and securities of a total value of $20,614,155. Thea *foyo Risen Kaisha has promised a new service of steamships between the Los Angeles harbor and South America. Nearly 100 tons of sardines are being shipped daily to a Long Beach (Cal.) fertilizing plant, where they/ sell for $lO a ton. The government of India will extend its wireless system until every army post has a station in the charge of a trained officer. The Civic League, of Columbia, S. C., Is conducting a vigorous campaign to rid the city of unsightly billboards and tradesmen’s signs. ( , ■ Only forty years ago the Japanese went to battle clad from head to foot in armor, and wearing hideous masks to frighten the enemy. Argentina and Paraguay have concluded a new commercial treaty which provides for practically free trade between the two countries.

Mounted In a torpedo-shaped shell, special generators are now being constructed for wireless telephone apparatus carried on air craft. The people of San Bernardino are proposing to go halves with the state of California in maintaining the great highway known aa the "101-mlle rim of the world.A superior finish is now given to concrete roadways by means of a belt drawn back and forth over the wet mass. The result is far better than handwork. Mistaking a fire alarm box for a mall receptacle, Pete Tadinitian got a good share of the New York fire department out at dinner to mail a card to a friend. An electric knife for tailors has been Invented that cats only a tew thicknesses of cloth instead of the twenty or more cut by machines used in clothing factories. A Montana forestry official has vised a light and compact telephone instrument which Is portable and will be part of the equipment of alt government rangers in the future. If multiplied br two, three, four or any other interger less than nine, the num’ -r 1,176,47M85.235,294 will produce the sama dibits in the same order, singly beginning at a different place In the set. / To aid in playing the banjo 4 or guitar . device has been invented to be slipped over the head of an instrument, > sired chords being produced when buttons are present to mute the I strings correctly. ■_