Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1917 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

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Three of every four German, nonagenarians are women. The American botanist, Asa Gray, could instantly recall the names of 25,0 00 plants. •More than 90 per cent of the alcohol and alcoholic drinks that are made in the Philippines are derived from the sap of palm trees. Billiard cues are chalked automatically by a new device which revolves a block of chalk as the tips of cues are pressed against it. Because gongs will hot awaken deaf-mutes a fire alarm for their institutions has been invented that flashes electric lights in their sleeping rooms. Suffrage for 1 8,000 educated Indians in the province of Ontario is urged on the Dominion government by Scobie Logan,\ chief of the Muncey tribe. Altogether, London boasts eighteen genuine farms—nine of them in Woolwich-—and in pre-war times had nearly 300 acres devoted to wheat growing. A man who boasted he could “blow up anything from a tin can to a battleship’’ was accepted at (’ll ice go for the marine corps. Ho is a professional dynamiter. From paper made of the fiber of them niulberry tree, a Japanese naval officer has invented a life boat that can be folded into a space of about a cubic foot. - Ten presidents of the United States have been elected twice: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lincolu, Grant, Cleveland, McGinley and Wilson. A patient anatomist has counted 272 hairs each square centimeter in a European, 252 to 28.6 in a Japanese, only 214 on the average in the Ainos, a ra<se noted for its extreme pilosity. The number of hairs is more numerous in the blond-haired than among the black-haired or brownhaired. For example, 147 black hairs, 162 brown hairs and 182 blond hairs a square inch.