Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 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 indications 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 ip water until the dye is extracted, in whieh must be added some alcohol to set the color.