Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1919 — CONDENSATIONS [ARTICLE]

CONDENSATIONS

Bell meinl is made of 77 parts of copper and 23 of tin. Scotian d s-1 loptilatlon-4sUE>.-411 great—•pfniian that of In laiel. She Ts "also nearly twtee as rich. • To aid a carver, a Denver man has invented a clanip which—holds-a roast of meat firmly and permits it to be turned over easily. The _gas _ineters of the houses in New York city are now recorded by cameras, which yield a permanent record of each of the regular readings. A person; who renders a false or fraudulent return with intent to evade a proper payment of income tax incurs' liability to a 100 per cent increase of, the tax and to tine and imprisonmglft besides. - -Ladies' silk dresses sometimes contai n tin to make them rust 1 e*Mind only the microscope can detect It.” said J. E. B arnard at the British scientific products exhibition. King's college, Strand, London. recently. The largest thermometer In the world. 20 feet high, with figures big enough jo be read at 100 a'nce. was made in Rochester for a Boston druggist. The glass tube was 16 feet long. The instrument registered from degrees below to 115 degrees above. Of the 37 states in which the amount of, ctiuipcnso-uan is based upon wages Puerto Rico alone provides 75 per cent, Massachusetts, Nebraska. New York and Ohio provide 66 2-3 per cent, California. Illinois. Kentucky and Wisconsin 65 per cent. Hawaii, Kansas. Minnesota and Texiis 60 per cent, Idaho, Indiana and Utah ger _cent,while 21 states, or 57 per cent, provide only 50 per cent. • —' Of the men now sitting in the United States senate 26 have served as governors of thei r respective states.An incubator invented by a Parisian not bnly hatches chickens, but protects them from, until they reach' a certain age. ' . The design of an eagle was at one titne. considered for the national flag of the United States, butthe.stfggeV tion .was abandoned. • / A large Philadelphia theater, it is said, is to be the first one to be operated without footlights.'' All Hie stage illuminations will come from electric lamps above.