Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1910 — Short Stories. [ARTICLE]

Short Stories.

Canada has 1 an active militia of 54,097 men. Sixty-five hundred inventors were too poor to the final payments on their papers- during the last year and for this jreason forfeited them. The irrigable area of the arid lands of the. United States is estimated by government experts at 45,000,000 acres, or more than four times the amount now irrigated. I The Eskimo dog will eat almost any of the dried fruits, sour or acid fruits, as the orange, lemon, lime, shaddock, etc., as well as the soitt plums and the bitter olives, are rarely eaten. To prevent diamonds scratching or cracking one another while in transit they sometimes are shipped from South Africa in potatoes, a stone being placed in each of several holes in the tuber.