Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1919 — FROM FAR AND NEAR [ARTICLE]

FROM FAR AND NEAR

South African gold mines are experimenting with blasting by electricity with a view to minimizing the fine dust which is thought to . be the chief cause of miners’ phthisis. To enable a man with one leg to mount a bicycle or rest while riding, a European inventor has patented a ■mall wheel to be attached upon one aid* of the frame of a machine.

The word "magnet” is derived from the name of the city of Magnesia, in Asia Minor, the properties of the lodestone are said to have been discovered. . Blue diamonds, though unusually beautiful stones, are considered very unlucky. So much sd that in the Orient they are known significantly os “diamond* of death.”

Mrs. M. J. Porter of Leon, Kan., noticed an old wolf around a tree stump, and when she investigated she found eight young wolves. She killed them. There is a probable opportunity, according to Vice-Consul Griffith of Santlago,. de ■Cuba, for the sale of portable houses to sugar mill owners and other large employers of labor on that Island. Such houses, however, could not be aold to householders for private building purposes because of the universal use of the Spanish style of structure, fea* taring the patio or central! court