Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1920 — BRIEFLY TOLD. [ARTICLE]

BRIEFLY TOLD.

English silk mills have ceased to work overtime because of a great decrease in the English demand for silken wear. , , Cigaret smoking has increased twenty per cent, in France during the last year. An acre of land was onee measured as the amount of land a yoke of oxen could plow between sunup and sundown. . Jazz is an acute form of musical degeneracy and the public has developed a taste for it, says a wellknown band director. The restoration of the Louvmn Library has been commenced by were carried to Germany are now being returned under the compulpeare written on the wall of Hampton Court, London, and dated 1696, has been pronounced as authentic. Fewer than five hundred men of the two million American soldiers England during the toy Mto. Bibles have been issued by the American Bible Society. since the society was inaugurated in 1916. To relieve the labor shortage, two thousand business and professional men of Columbus, Ohio, have volunteered to spend one day each week on rural farms. Eighty per cent of the world’s ocean tonnage would be able to visit GrSt Lakes ports should the Lakes-to-Ocean project be earned out.