Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1917 — MUCH IN LITTLE [ARTICLE]

MUCH IN LITTLE

Hawaii is making bricks from lava, Ayou, a Cayuse Indian, dead at one hundred anil twenty in Pendleton, Ore. Valuable deposits of lignite hate been discovered iti Sicily. India has become one of the world’s greatest consumers of aluminum. Cuba has the largest orange grove in the world, covering 2,000 ayres. Paper covers to protect automobiles in storage have been invented. —Ac thin paste of wood ashes and lemon juice will renew tarnished brass. The destruction of birds costs this country $1,000,000,000 a year, it is estimated. More than 145 words a minute have been sent in high-speed wireless tests in EnglandA portable vacuum cleaner of English invention can be used as a seat, table, cabinet, music stool or pedestal. A meteorite weighing about 20 tons is reported to have fallen recently at Bezerros, in the state of Pernambuco, prazil. If cotton and linen are steeped in any saline solution, such lis alum, ammonia, chloride or borax, they will become fireproof. New apparatus for filling automobile tires with air automatically cuts off the supply when the overintlation danger point is reached. Chinese ship fresh eggs long distances in good condition by coating them with a paste made of sea salt, vegetable ashes and water. Russian engineers soon will begin experiments tluft will cover three years to ascertain if sugar beets can be raised profitably in Siberia.