Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1918 — DO YOU KNOW THAT [ARTICLE]

DO YOU KNOW THAT

The Japanese eat more fish than any other people in the world. The highest elevation at which wheat is found is in the Andes, 11,000 feet above sea level. • Paraffin wax is being used as a covering or stiffening for the bandages for soldiers’ wounds. Dogs in Milan, Italy, are on rations, and their owners have to producetickets for biscuits. There are no railways in Persia. In traveling facilities that country is a century behind the age. In the schools of the islands there are 11,000 native teachers and 500 American instructors. 1 Sugar cane, after the juice has been crushed from it, has been found suitable for manufacturing into paper. An imperial clogs office is Germany’s very latest war department. It will deal exclusively with the acquisition and distribution of wood suitable for use as soles for boots and shoes.