Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1918 — POPULAR SCIENCE [ARTICLE]

POPULAR SCIENCE

If a pin had a hole in one end instead of a ,head it would be a needle. • When books were written on bricks all the hod carriers were literary people. Stains on table linen from blueberry .pie' are easily removed with a sharp pair of scissors. The easiest way to extract the wet part of water from an ordinary goblet, is to drink it. :* While a pound of feathers do not weigh any more than a pound of lead, they are not as painful when bounced on your head. .. - If all the pins in the world were placed end to end they would reach around the world seven times and it would take twice as long to pick them up as it did to lay them down.