Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1916 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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In the friendly spirit of this Christmas time we extend the season's greetings to each and every one, and may your Christmas joys be all you wish. We will have a number of Christmas specials Saturday and by trading here you can save from $3 to $5 on every suit or overcoat, and save enough to provide the whole family with Christmas presents. The Clothing House of . William Traub RENSSELAER, IND.

SCRAPS China has the longest national hymn. Homing pigeons can travel seventy miles an hour. Douglosyille, New Jersey, has a dwelling occupied continuously for 200 years. The United States government buys 1,250,000 electric lamps every year. Using benzine for fuel, a new cigaret lighter is a close facsimile of a cigaiet. • The corncob pipe manufacturing industry represents a valuation of SSOO Ofo a 'ear. Some 250 miles northwf st of Winnepeg a paper mill is being built to turn out 100 tons a day. Names have been given to 727 minor planets and new ones are being discovered all the time. Moving picture shows in Sheffield, England, generally last two hours. Refreshments are sold. India leads oriental countries in the number of its blind, having about 000,000 to China’s 500,000 and Japan’s IOQ.OOO. The United States has more telegraph offices and more line mileage than any other nation. Germany is second in rank. A steering wheel, adjustable to several positions, has been invented to replace the handlebars of. a bicycle or ■ A'n Illinois inventor’s dredging machine literally walks W large feet and will travel over ground too soft for caterpillar wheels. A baby carriage to be hung on the back of an automobile seat, and which can be . folded flat when empty, has been patented. The surface of the Caspian sea has beep gradually sinking for several years until now navigation has been impeded at several points.

While the mule will continue to be the standard draft animal in the. South, a gradual substitution of heavy horses on the farms is going ‘on. The word “plate” is often incorrectly applied to vessels of gold. It is derived from the plata, which in Spanish means wrought silver. The melting point, of ductile tungsten is higher than that of any other known metal and its tensile strength exceeds that of iron and nickel. A party about to leave Buenos Aires to explore a little known region of South America expects to study much oL the country from aeroplanes. » • ■■ Abraham Kittlebune of Detroit, age 110, and said to be the oldest Mason in the world, walked six