Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1918 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

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Prisoners in the state penitentiary ' at Deer Lodge, Montana, have agreed to make socks and sweaters for the soldiers if the Red Cross will provide materials. To carry smaller boats inside of Large craft, an inventor in Holland has designed a vessel with hinged doors at one end of the hull, through which boats can be floated. Ten mules can haul about two tons of material and their work is limited to ten hours, but the traetor hauls twenty-five tons and covers a distance of twenty miles at the same time. The making of candles is not ordinarily considered a fine art, but the Italians, have made it sack. The distinctively Italian votive taper is made by hand. The materials are pure beeswax, which Is kneaded and tempered and mlx.»d. with a secret ingredient to retard combustion, and which has special Egyptian cotton for wicks. The entton, too. is treated with chemicals to keep it from feeding too fast. Small candles are molded. Large ones are made by rolling up sheets of wax.

Among the population of Hong Kong there .is a population afloat of nearly 58,000. These strange people live on the waterways in fantastic houseboats, says Eleanor Franklin Egan in the Saturday Evening Post. They are born and brought up, they marry and produce children, become grandmothers and grandfathers, and die, many of them, without ever having lived ashore a day in their lives.. Yet 'some of their curious floating homes —a majority of them, in sact —are ino larger than ordinary row boats.