Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1916 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS

The spectroscope discovered helium. Horses have been known to live 40 years. Damascus, in Syria, is the oldest of all existing cities, Guinea pigs do not come from Guinea, nor are they pigs. Women are engfiged to patrol the army camps in England. Fully 60,000,0(»0 cocoanut trees are under cultivation in Ceylon. Each whale carries about half a ton of whalebone about with him. The uses of whale oil are more numerous at the present time than ever before. Spain is credited with supplying more than three-quarters of the world’s olive oil. There is a church in Boston, Mass'., on which one set of shingles is said to have done service for more than 100 years. Glass factories in Japan are doing a rushing business as a result of paralysis of the industry in Germany and Belgium. New Mexico produced more than $18,000,000 worth of metals last year. This is the greatest annual output in its history. Natural gas now is being carried in pipe lines from the Louisiana fields to cities and towns in Arkansas, 200 miles away.