Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1916 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

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Bolivia’s chief exports are tin and rubber. About 2,24 0 pounds of apples are required to make 150 pounds of Cider. The reindeer has been known to pull 200 pounds at ten miles an hour for twelve hours. The greater part of Chilean coal is so soft that fully 30 per cent of it is wasted at the mines. London’s telephone and telegraph wires extend 73,500 miles overhead and 921,000 miles underground. Life insurance, which was introduced into Japan in 1 881, is popular and has doubled in volume each cade..A most remarkable engineering accomplishment is a well in western China, bored to a depth of 3,000 feet with a rattan cable. In Jewish marriages the bride always stands at the right hand of t ie grooiYTf with every other nation of the world her place in the ceremonv i at the left. The French fishing fleet oft the Newfoundland banks, consisting of 11 steam trawlers and 25 sailing vessels, caught 23,294,428 pounds of cod. It is believed that all lions are “left-handed.” A famous explorer says that when a lion desires to strike a forcible blow it nearly always uses the left paw. The orange was originally a pearshaped fruit about the size of the common wild cherry. Its evolu .ion is believed by naturalists to be due to 1,200, years of cultivation. ! Germah cities have hit on a new i scheme for advertising themselves. It is in the form of a brief description of the city on the back of a regular mailing envelope. Harry G.

Seltzer, American consul at Breslau, , recently sent a sample to the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce at Washington.