Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1919 — THIS AND THAT [ARTICLE]

THIS AND THAT

Nearly 6 per cent of the world’s crop of potatoes is spoiled or wasted. Fifty per cent of all the food raised in this country never reaches the consumer. Near Yatkutsk, in Russia, there Is a well of solid ice which has been penetrated to a depth'of 382 feet without any indication of the bottom. A brown dye for leathers may be made as follows: Boil half an ounce of Spanish saffron and a quarter of an ounce of annatto in water until the dye is extracted, in which must be added some alcohol to set the color.