Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1918 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS

Thousands of women in Japan earn their livelihood by working in the fields or on the dock loading ships. Australia produced 750,550 fine ounces of gold in the first seven months of 1918, as compared with 853,074 in the similar period n 1917. Experiments are under way in the Philippines with the cultivation of cinchona iplants from India in tho belief that quinine can be produced in tho islands. A merchant of Shanghai offered five pounds of tea for $2, and ten pounds for $5. When tho tourist told him that was ridiculous, tho Chinaman answered that the more a 'man buys the richer ho is, and the richer he is the more he can pay. Each nation entering into a peace agreement is bound by all the terms agreed upon by its peace commissioners, provided it can not be shown that such commissioners did not expressly violate the inflstructions given them. On July 17, ,1917, King George announced to the privy council the new name of the royal house and family to be “the House of Windsor.” The council unanimously indorsed the announcement and the proclamation ipu’tlng it into effect was published the same day. In Poland the gypsy tribes are called Zlnzani; in Italy, Zingari; in Spain, Gitanos; in France, Bohemians; in Germany, Zlseuner. The Persians, it is stated, apply to them a name meaning “Black Indians.” Their most ancient name is that of Sinte, which is supposed to be connected with Sind, the native name for the Indus.

Horses in the veterinary hospitals on tho British front in France were fed four time a day. The more deblllated ones were fed five or six times. When they were particularly run down, the patients got nothing but cooked foods. They received tonics, too, and it was remarkable to see tbo improvement in their condition that a few weeks effected. Automobiles are being experimentally operated in Norway by acetylene gas instead of gasoline, and the innovacation promises to become tho general practice, as the supply of carbide is very plentiful in that country, wfaete it is made at the hydroelectric plants. In some instances it is utllizied as a gas delivered to tanks and in some other instances it is generated on the car from the carbide. In the hunt for new sources of leather things are turning up. It has been ascertained that the skin of frogs and toads can be tanned and turned to account for card cases and other fancy articles. The government fisheries bureau says the skin of cod fish furnish parchment and very durable. The same is true of salmon skin. Eel skins are employed in Europe for binding books, and in Egypt shoe soles are made from the skins of certain fishes caught in the Red sea. Sturgeon skin affords a handsome ornamental leather, and the hide of the armored garfish is much valued in Europe, being covered with horney plates, that can be polished to an ivory like finish.