Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1919 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A southern paper, the Lenoir.(S. C.) News, has a oolumn of "society nbte# worth while." It consists of the hames- or farmers to town to buy improved farm machinery. ~ V . i - *_ The seventy-fifth lineal descendant of Confucius p living in the Chines# town in which the founder of the Chinese religion was bprn, and where he was buried twenty-five centuries ago.. „ Meta! shoes' resembling skates, which grip firmly when weight is airplied to them, have been invented to enable men to climb steel frames of buildings, bridges and some type# of poles. A check protector patented by a Californian that both prints and perforates paper resembles a pocket cigar lighter and can be carried is a vest pocket. ■ 1 "" • A few people in England were far, miliar with the chrysanthemum-as long ago as 1764, for it wa.s in that year#that a certain Philip Mi|ler received one of the plants from Nnmpu and proceeded to cultivate it at the botanical gardens at Chelsea Loodan. , The tiny citrus fruits known as kumquats do “not belong to the genus citrus, to which the orange and the lemon belong. The oval kumquat Is the Fortunella margarita of the botonist, and the round species is F. Japoniea. Two other’ species, though rare, arc in cultivation: F. era; sifolia and F. Hindsii.

Kouinania’s oil fields are still, in some parts, owned by small., proprietors and worked by hand labor, the oij being run into small earth reser-. voirs or ponds, and periodically drawn off for sale. These workings prove highly lucrative to the workers, particularly as Roumanian oil is highly valued on account of its large yield of s&pthas under refining. The yield of napthas under refining. The taua-ful to pi event the oil fields coming under the complete control of foreign capitalists to the disadvantage of the natives. Some years ago a big foreign company proposed to construct a vast pipeline to a strategical port, hoping thus to gain a monopoly of the Roumanian output at its own price,- hut the goverament, While wdcoming the idea,-im.mated that, on its completion, the line would have to b« handed over to tie state. Needless to say the scheme fell threugh. - ... ■. ■•.. can -1 assii.;ed. co 1 umn gels results. . *»