Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1918 — WORTH KNOWING [ARTICLE]

WORTH KNOWING

I Pecan shells have been found to contain enough, protein and fat to make them useful when ground for stock 1 feed. .., i Ice Is said to have been cut and harvested for storage in 1805, ■ from, a small lake near Cambridge, * Mass. ITRe duchess of Marlborough, formerly Consuelo Vanderbilt, has been •1 candidate for a seat In the Londoc county council.

Philadelphia' possesses the largest organ in the wosd. with 232 speaking stops and 18,146 pipes. In a French factory turbine* are driven by water from a reservoir on a mountain 600 feet above it. - A good substitute for platinum for electrical purposes Is silver, 70 per cent: palladium, 25 per cent, and cotalt 5 per cent. The latest ttgurfe* show that there are 44500 picture houses in the United Kingdom, with an annual attendance of 1,075,000,000.