Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1918 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS

The Chinese alphabet consists of 214 letters. Oil has been discovered at Bell island, Newfoundland. Only a third of South America's population is of pure white blood. A new oil-burning apparatus heats and lights the room at the same time. The clouds in thunderstorms may be very deep—from two to five miles and more. Sweden is manufacturing a wood pulp material used as a substitute for absorbent cotton. Cocoanut shells have a high fuel Value, although’’for the most part in the Wdst Indies the shells are not so used. Pipe of compressed cellulose is now being ushd abroad. It answers many purposes, but will not do for steam service. In 1656 New York city, then New Amsterdam and ruled by the Dutch, had 1,000 inhabitants, 120 bouses and seventeen streets. The cherry . gets its name from Cerasos, an old Greek town on the Black sea, whence came the first garden cherries \ known to Europe. New York, in its capacity to lodge and feed the stranger within its gates, is said to exceed Chicago about fifteen to one.—New York World. , The average life of a moving picture film is three weeks. It is estimated that 15,000,000 ounces of silver per year are used for sdhsit- ' izing purposes. For shipping l perishable goods Jong distances a Russian has invented an artificial ice, made by freezing solution of salt at various degrees of concentration.