Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1916 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS

More than 90,000 Japanese make their home in Hawaii. F. C. Elmer of Cleveland has made a fortune selling 6-eent pies. William H. Gannett of Augusta, Maine, is building a one-room house in a large tree on his estate. E. G. Fisher of the United States coast and geodetic survey has designed an electric lamp, run on a s'ingle dry cell battery, which can be seen for more than 100 miles. It is to be used by surveyors in the mountains of Idaho and Oregon in making triangulation surveys. The production of bituminous coal and anthracite in the United States in 1915 amounted to 531,619,487 net tons, valued at $686,691,186, an increase, compared with 1914, of 3.5 per cent quan-r tity, and of .8 per cent in value, Recording to C. E. Lesher of the United States geological survey. A new diamond field has been discovered in the Transvaal, about six miles from the famous Premier diamond mine and eighteen miles from Pretoria. The first finds, it is reported, were exceedingly promising, and there has been a rush of diamond diggers to the new ground.