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

Obituary

Mari© Emma Marchand. Marie Emma, the little daughter of Charles and Essie Marchand, was born in Jasper county June 15, 1,917, and departed this life in Chicago May 17, 1918, aged eleven months and two’days. On May 13, she was taken to the Jasper County hospital and then to Chicago, but all failed to keep the little life and the spirit flew away to he with the Savior who said, “Suffer little children to come unto Me," and forbid them not, for such is the kingdom of heaven.” The hearts of the father and mother and little sister Evelyn are left very sad. The funeral services were held at 2 i>. m. Sunday at the Milroy church and burial made in the Milroy cemetery. The sermon was preached by Rev. Clem of the Baptist church of Monon. xx

The longest continuous stretch of submarine cable now working, that is, /without relay, is 3,458 nautical miles—that from Vancouver to Fanning island in the Pacific, and the average distance without relay is much less than this. It is evident, therefore, that on the long transoceanic cables such as those across the Pacific, islands must be found for relay stations. This explains the rivalry of certain of “the European nations for the possession of small, solitary islets, scarcely more than mere rocks, and useless except for just such a purpose as this. This as the reason for Germany’s acquisition of the, Caroline and Marianne islands and later of one of the Samoa group, at the time of our war with Spain. Similarly England is to be found in possession of conveniently placed islands all over the world.

- The completion a short time ago of a chimney, 571 feet high, at Tacoma, Washington, transfers the title of the world's tallest chimney from Japan to America. The structure, which in respect to height held the world’s record until recently, was the 5 70-foot chimney at Sagonoseki, Japan. While the giant flue is of reinforced concrete, the one surpassing it by so narrow a margin is of brick. The big Tacoma vent, like its rival in the orient, is part of a smelting plant, and the reason for rearing it to such great height is to prevent the fumes discharged by it from harming vegetation, particularly in a park close at hand.