Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1918 — POPULAR SCIENCE [ARTICLE]

POPULAR SCIENCE

Full sunlight is estimated to be 600,000 times brighter than full moonlight. The pearl is the only gem that-does not require the lapidary’s art to bring out its beauty. The development of water power in Norway has made electricity cheaper than steam in that country. A leather covered metal tube to be slipped over an umbrella to roll it tight has been patented in England. Concrete floors can be made almost noiseless by covering them with heavy tar paper, attached by cement. Pennsylvania railroad states that shippers could save $2,000,000 a year by more careful packing of freight. A gasoline engine driven dynamo that is entirely automatic in its action is attracting attention in England. , The natives of New Guinea are the shortest lived people in the world, which is attributed to their diet of the larva? of certain beetles.