Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1916 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS

Bronze hose in which there is no rubber, canvas or leather has been invented in Great Britain for handling fuel oil. More than 20,000 feet of good timber was made last year from trees caught while floating down the Missouri river. Most of the cost of government in Montana is paid by royalties on oil and mining development and leases on state lands. Tasmania has no facilities for apple storage, so that the growers have to accept prices offered when the fruit is ready. This year’s crop is being sold at prices that are unremunerative. / To protect engineers’ eyes as they look ahead from locomotives a shield has been invented that deflects air and dust past an opening so that no glass, easily blurred by ice or water, is needed.

The third “contract” marriage in the history of New York city has recently been performed,./Miss Freda Kirchway, daughter of the Sing Sing warden, being one of the parties to file a nuptial agreement in lieu of having a cermony performed. In Denmark the cost of living continues to advance. Considering the selling price of foodstuffs, textiles, metals, lumber, oils and labor as 100 in 1913, the index number last March was 182.2. It is not believed that the end of the war will result in great relief. Asphalt, thought of mainly as a paving material, is also used in shoe making, waterproofing, vat linings, linoleum, driving belts, cork flooring, rubber articles, protective paints, asphalt putty and many other articles. It is a South American bituminous product. It is estimated that the number of Jews in the world at the beginning of 1915 was 10,431,829, of whom nearly one-helf were residents in Russia, 1,994,378 were in Aus-tria-Hungary and 1,136,240 in the United States. About 500,000 Jews are fighting in the present war, 20,000 being with the British forces.