Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1918 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SCRAPS

Two hundred thousand women in England are engaged in agricultural pursuits. , , The government of Uuruguay has made the use of the metric weights and measures obligatory in all trade transactions. ■ The amount of land above sea level in the world would make a crust 600 feet thick if evenly distributed all over the globe, • ■ The emporer of Germany has been married only once —to Princess Augusta Victoria of Schles-wig-Holstein, who Is still living. Tunis has attained second rank to the United States for the production of phosphate through the development of mines discovered a few years ago. Abyssinia is the original home of the coffee trade, and in the southern and western highlands of that country there are still immense forests of it that have never been touched.

A West Bath, Maine, lumber camp crew had a pet pig, which followed the men like a dog. The pig went calling on the farmers in the vicinity of Sabino and followed the mill teams about. . 0.. Some of the oldest walnut tre ;s in this country were originally planted, not for the sake of the fruit, but because the wood makes the best gunstocks, being light, strong and not easily warped. Seventy-two farmers of Grinnell, lowa, recently sold a carload of hogs to one of the largest packers at the top price of $18.50 a hundred pounds. The amount received was $3,675, which they turned over to the Red Cross. Tl>e same men recently auctioned off a rooster for $1,200. Helsingfors, the capital of Finland, is among the youngest of the European capitals, for it is but little over a hundred years since Czar Alexander I, shortly after the annexation of the duchy of Russia, transferred the capital thither from Abo, which was, in his opinion, too near Sweden.

The Democrat’s fancy stationery department is the economical place to buy your correspondence needs.

Captain William L. Rodgars.