Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1918 — BRIEF INFORMATION [ARTICLE]

BRIEF INFORMATION

England’s prison popuiatiop before the war was 18,000; it is now 9,500. Portable electric machinery has been Invented to screen coal and load it in waEons. Of the 3,000 or more islands comprising the Philippines only about 400, are inhabited. Adding an ounce of camphor to each five gallons of gasoline he uses, an English automobilist claims to effect a fuel saving of 20 per cent.

. The inventot of a pulley with depressions in its surface contends that belts will not slip when it Is used. With a view to meeting eventually the national demand for wool, the Japanese government will establish three sheep farms early in the new year. A few Japanese wbmfen have been put on the cars of the Mino Electric company because of the shortage of men laborers, who have entered the manufacturing activities. If these women conductors prove satis&ctory more will be similarly employed.