Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1918 — SCIENCE NOTES [ARTICLE]

SCIENCE NOTES

A simple typewriter attach- < ment has been invented for re- * inking ribbon at little cost. < Concrete bases to give longer , life to worn-out fence posts are < a New: York inventor’s idea. , Sand of different colors can be • fed through a new pencil for , children to enable them to draw * outline pictures. To save labor and space in J large post offices, a New Jersey < man has Invented a letter-sort- ; ing cabinet In which the letters . are dropped into narrow slots \ and fall down chutes into larger . compartments. !