Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1917 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS

There are 139,955 motor &is eh Kansas. ' Africa is'' three 'times , larger '''thin' Europe. There are ip,Cf , o. ; i’99 . hecr&es in the United States. Grasshoppers hare Ueer s®~mi at sea 1,2 00 miles from any JaaadL Most -army cooks prefer tW kerosene stoves to those .wood; At least 9.000 gardens . were planted last spring in N~w York city. , - ' The world's cc>nsumj<iwn of tea has tripled in the last thirty years The report of a gun a mil* away takes a full fire seconds to v reach the ear. Negroes in the United Stites a taxable wealth of abpat fsff.000,000. . - ■ ’ . , A refrigerator made of. wsseret* cools by the action of water Sowing over the sides of the derace. A million and a quarter nsrsesand mules hare beer exported for war purposes since "the fall of 191 A