Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1919 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS

The Sitka widow when ehe has to put on mourning, paint* the upper part of her face a deep black. Coeta Rioa’s coffee exports for the last season total 25,246,711 pounds. The United SUtes took ~6.45 per , cent of the shipments. The dally consumption of gasoline and distillate by the 344,000 motor vehicles operated in California Is approximately 1,000,000 gallons. Certain scientists claim to have discovered that a fat resembling cocoanut oil can be obtained from plants growing abundantly on waste lands. A thirteen-year-old girl in Ohio a member of a girls’ club —won first prize in her county by putting up, (unassisted, 930 cans of fruits and vegetables. Nebraska has passed New York state and leads all states of the Union now in the production of hay, according to the Omaha chamber of commerce.

Fall or winter pruning of grapevines may 'be done at any time during mild weather Horn November to March, while the vines are tn a dormant condition. By treating fish oil with hydrogen a chemist has produced an oil : suitable for food purposes and a ! solid substance closely resembling lard, which is tasteless. The orange invaded Europe from Africa about the ye&r 103)0. It was not known In England tijll the sixteenth century, and was first planted in Australia in 1788. Miss Elsie Boyer of Fontana, Pa., |ls proud because she has raised a radish weighing more than three pounds and fourteen jand one-half Inches in circumference. A subterranean river, running under the Australian continent from north to south, has been located over its entire course, snd at several points wells are being sunk Into the bed of this huge ! perennial water supply. With the harvesting of a potato crop larger than usual in Denmark. the alcohol manufacturers are obtaining permission to resume business on a somewhat .larger I scale, and expect to make 800,000 gallons, compared with 600,000 last year. Senator Garcia informed the Argentine senate recently that the foreigners resident in Buenos Aires are 56 per cent of the population, and added courteously that ,“if it were 70 per cent it would be all the better for the country. ’ In Turkestan every wedding engagement begins with the payment 'of a substantial consideration to the girl’s parents. If the girl jilts her lover the engagement gift has Ito be returned, unless the parents have another daughter to give a substitute.

Vice-Consul €. D. Meinhardt reports from Canton thaj many American exporters apparently address letters and circulars to Chinese firms taken from trade directories or lists pertaining to the far east, which have been extinct for many years. He suggests that something of 'more recent date be used. A rich Philadelphian of middle age, anticipating wartime national prohibition, made inquiry of his life insurance company to find out how long a man of his age and health was likely to live, and being informed that his expectancy of life was twenty years, started out saying that he was going to buy enough liquor tq guarantee him a quart a day until the tend. The maharajob of Mysore has a throne made of solid gold, beautifully chased and set with precious stone, and Testing on four huge lions of solid gold. Above the throne, which Is covered with a thick cushion of cloth of gold with pearl tassel* is a gold umbrella shimmering with pearls and precious stones on top of which is a golden peacock encrusted with diamonds and emeralds holding in its beak a large hmerald pendant. Silver steps lead up to the seat.