Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1916 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS

New Zealand has 333,233 acres of wheat. Columbus, O„ is to build a convention hall. Philadelphia pays its mayor sl2, 000 a year salary. One inventor uses charged wires to prevent cat concerts. The public library of Cincinnati makes and lends lantern slides. St. Paul desires to, be the site of a government nitrate plant. Chicago has dedicated a new clubhouse for boys in Larrabee street. Each man in the regular army is said to cost Great Britain $1,500 a year.

James Townsend, age 90, ha« served one Boston firm 50 consecu tive years. The power development of the government irrigation projects amounts to 35,000-horse power. The same steam engine has been pumping water out of an English coal mine more than a century. A new German electrical heating unit is made of fine resistance wir°s woven across pure asbestos threads. Pottsville and St. Clair, Pa., are now connected by a new trolley line three miles long, costing $1 an inch to construct. The new CatKoHc church of Brownville Junction, Me., cost $6,« 000 and was built by a parish con sisting of only 30 families. A small pocket light has no battery. The current is generated by a small dynamo concealed in the handle and worked by one finger. Generally regarded as a modern disease, appendicitis was known in Egypt 5,000 years ago and accurately described in still existing records. Recent official statistics place the available water power of Spain at about 5,000,000 horse power, of which only about 300,000 is being utilized. An English scientist who has raised wheat in record-breaking time explains that he so treats the seeds with electricity that he trebles the life force within it. Nicholas; the Christian name of the czar, means- victorious. George means farmer; Albert, illustrious; Peter, a rock; William, a and Frances, free.