Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1917 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS

The name Christiana dates back 292 years. In Norway books are said to be most favored as gifts. A fine brick road now connects Tampa and St. Petersburg. Sitting Bull was killed near Grand River, North Dakota, December 15, 1890. > Christiana was, 292 years ago, known as Oslo, which, for the 600 years preceding, was the capital of Norway. The kaiser is welcome to all of Carranza he can swallow. We have too much regard for our stomach to even want a nibble. A Kentucky man has written to a Connecticut mayor please to find him & step-mother, “opt too fat,’* for his four daughters. The Mennonites of western Canada, being forbidden by their faith, have sent no volunteers, but are aiding the allies with money. Vibration is almost entirely eliminated from a new reciprocating pump in which cams are used instead of cranks to drive the pistons. Ocean freight rates to British East Africa have increased from 100 to 300 per cent over the rates prevailing before the European war. Thirty feet of lamp cord contained in a spring reel that is mounted on a swivel enable an electric light to be moved over an extensive area. The Chilean congress has authorized the sale of certain nitrate lands belonging to the government of Chile. The exact method of sale, whether by public auction or® in private sale, has not yet been announced. Germany is tryiiig a new style of .locomotive capable of a speed of I sixty-eight miles an hour, according to the New York Times. It is to be used for heavy passenger service on the Breslau-Dresden and ! Breslau-Berlin lines, i