Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1919 — BRIEF INFORMATION [ARTICLE]

BRIEF INFORMATION

The Omaha (Neb.) city council has passed an ordinance prohibiting, organization among city firemen. Steel truss poles rolled from single pieces of metal have been invented for electric lights and other similar purposes. The South African Geographical society has been recently formed. A wide range of activities has bepn oub lined lor it, including th» publication a'periodical-

Economy is claimed for an electric heater to be inserted in range boilers, as the water absorbs all the ‘ heat it radiates. A Swedish syndicate is planning to distill alcohol spirit from white moss, there being enormous quantities of it available. The consul-general of Japan at Honolulu has forbidden his countrymen to wear kimonos ,on the street. He explains order as being part of 4 campaign he is waging to induce his people to adopt American styles.

Caught on the railroad track at Ellendale, Del., with a fast freight approaching, the two-year-old baby of William Masen had a miraculous escape when it fell down, the engine and whole train passing over it without touching it. “It may seem absurd," says an official of the National Paper Trades association,. “but the amount of paper used for wrapping gifts and food and/ mall matter andMent abroad has been one of the greatest causes of the taxin? of naoer mills’ outwit."