Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1916 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

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Kansas has 854,679 male inhabitants. There are 428,663 persons in Yokohama. The United States has 66,066 postoffices. Army service is compulsory in Holland; France is stimulating attention ' ? gardening. Germany’s normal meat supply is 60 per cent pork. One ton of whale blubber will yield 200 gallons of oil. New Y’ork is to have a new hotel to cost $1 5,000,000. Sheep dogs are free from tax in the United Kingdom. The United States yearly produces $20,000,000 worth of buttons. Sudan grass yields from one to eight tons of cured hay an acre. Two-thirds of the world’s corres pondence is in the English language. Douglasville, N. J., has a dwelling occupied continuously for 200 years. Akron, 0., watched a skunk stro ; down .Main street at noon the oth?’ day'.* For years an almose unsalable product, New Zealand hemp has lean ed into popularity and is now a great industry.

A wealthy native of India has given a fund of $5,000 a year for fifteen years to aid in suppressing tuberculosis in Bombay. Quartz glass, for which we were

once dependent on Germany, is now} had in this country. The sand of ! Nebraska is best suited for the pur- ' pose. The 25,000 inhabitants which w"-g! credited to Dawson City, Alaska, dur j ing the height of the 1898 gold' rush, have now dwindled to a mere 2,000. Shoes with quickly removable soles and heels have been invert*"'' i in France for railroad they can escape should their fee* bei caught in tracks. I The average weight of the hogs received at Chicago was 219 pounds during 1915 and 231 in 1914. •*'he corresponding averages at Kansas City were 200 and 191, respectively.. It is estimated by the forest ser- 1 vice of the l nited States departrae*« - of agriculture that there is enough waste from the sawmills of the south alone to produce 20,000 tons of paper a day. Behring sea is to be charted by means of a new vessel now b c ing built at a Lake Michigan port. The

surveyor will be used by tbe government only for coast and geodetic survey work. ' The price of coal is said to hav? reacheds3o a ton at Rome, and steps are being taken to bring it from Japan where the cost is just onetenth e.s great. The reflector, 100 inches in diameter, for the Mt. Wilson observatory in California, which will te finished early next year, will b? the largest mirror ever cast. It will be thirteen inches thick and will contain, in one solid piece, four and one-half tons of glasss. A well-known Amo -iyan writer thinks that the signing of peace will lead to an emigration movement that will amaze the world. After the Franco-German war in 1870, 200,000 Germans settled in three American states—Nebraska, Minnesota and lowa. Commercial Attache William F Montavon reports that, according to press advices from La Faz, crop conditions in Bolivia are worse even than had been anticipated. Early frosts have injured, if not completely ruined, the potato and barley crops. Among the Chinese a particular species of dog is said to be reared for the table. It is a small dog of a greyhound shape, with a muzzl<* much more elongated than in ter riers. The flesh of black dogs is preferred to that of animals of any other color on account of the greaf-r amount of nutriment the black dogs are supposed to possess.