Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1919 — POPULAR SCIENCE [ARTICLE]

POPULAR SCIENCE

. - -- Ireland is shipping fish to America. Germany is making a cloth from nettle fibers. Oil is now made from tomato seeds to be used In paint. ~~ ■" Bread is now baked on board some of the British warships, where a spesial set of bakeries has recently been constructed. Trinitrate of toluol, the substance which exploded in the recent factory disaster in New Jersey, is a granulated, amber-colored substance looking not unlike brown sugar. The waterspout is constantly spinning. The moment it .stops spinning it collapses. At a distance of a quarter of a mile above sea level its spinning speed has been estimated at six miles an hour.