Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1917 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

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Because of labor troubles, New Zealand is experiencing a coal shortage. A woman 60 years old haa recently learned to read so that she may better understand the Bible. Consul Winslow of Auckland says that the censorship of moving pictures in New Zealand is becoming more drastic. Investigators in Bavaria have found that the more bread school children eat the better the condition of their teeth. A two-wheeled cart, which automatically loads and unloads corn stalks, is the invention of a New Jersey farmer. People who read ads are looking for something they want to buy. The wise merchant meets them half way by seeing that his ad is there to be seen. The reason given by Josephus for the Jewish law which prohibited the wearing of clothing of linen and wool was that such garments were worn by the priests alone. Chiefly intended for deliveryl automobiles is a new attachment for a car that stops it at a set distance from a starting point enabling a driver to call at several hoilses and find his machine waiting for him. During the first year of the civil war the number of the regular army rose to 32.000. Lincoln’s' first call for volunteers, April 15, 1861, was for 75,000 men for three months. At the beginning of 1862 the number of volunteers in the field was about 550,000. During the next three years it was about 900,000. At the close of the war the Union army numbered 1,000,000 men. The total number of troops furnished was 2,850,000

men. Prank Witham has made a perfect model of the Maine state penitentiary, on the scale of one-quar-ter inch to the foot, of wood and pasteboard.' The model is correct, even to minor details, the guardroom being shown in the center, with its distinguishing brick color, and the two wings in their scrupulous whiteness. Even the window bars are there, frail and minute, yet emblematic of the real harriers to freedom. E. D. Knowlton of Allendale. Michigan, and his brother Frederick of Stockton, California, met the | other day in Grand Rapids, Mich- | igan, and it was the first time that they had seen each other for more | than sixty years. When both were boys in Maine they “farmed out,” | and then lost track of each other as they went to join the colors during the civil war. Frederick saw service with the Maine soldiery, while his brother enlisted in a, Michigan regiment. The drone bees do no wora. They are <the royal consorts. If more than one queen bee is found in the hive they fight among themselves until only one survives. The survivor becomes the queen of the colony. The only exception to this is when a colony becomes too large for the one queen to rule, when another queen is grown, and a new home is prepared. On the new queen’s appearance the old queen leaves the hive, followed by a part of her workers.