Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1918 — THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW [ARTICLE]

THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW

Of the old-time vegetable-dyes Brazil possesses an almost endless variety. In some parts of northern Arabia the hills are so well stocked with bees that no sooner are hives placed than they are occupied. Tungsten, which only in recent years has come into general use, was discussed exhaustively _by a Spanish treatise written In 1781. With the lions, tigers and other members of the cat tribe, the night finds them at their liveliest, and they sleep most between the midday meal and supper time. Because of the war Scotland has been cutting down a great many trees to supply its own needs. Much of the land thus cleared will eventually be used for agriculture. . t Currants from Greece are now packed by machinery in a manner which is far more cleanly and economical than the old “hand methods.” T|ie latter have always been questionable. A cablegram from the American consul at Padang, Sumatra, received April 22. states that the government has prohibited the exportation of cinchona bark, quinine, quinine salts, tin, tin ore and kapok. Uruguay has appointed a commission to investigate the feasibility of a scheme to turn the locust pest into a blessing by using these insects In the manufacture of fertilizer, soap and lubricants and stock, feed. The hell of Mahomet is as full of terror as his heaven is of delight The wicked will suffer alternately from cold and heat; when thirsty, boiling water will be given them, and they will be shod with shoes of fire. A brass band and football and cricket teams are found among students of the missionary college at Lovedale, South Africa, the only institution in the Dark Continent that offers Africans a standard college education.