Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1919 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS

In a statement to Pennsylvania householders urging sifting of anthracite ashes, the Anthracite Operator’s association says mining experiences estimate that an average home wastes about three buckets of coal a week by not sifting, the loss a month being about 12. The amount of light given by a single lightning flash is sufficient to illuminate an aera two miles square, with an average illumination of one candle. To produce such an illumination, an eminent electrician estimates the expenditure of 13,000-horse flower for one second would be required. Raising ranch-bred foxes is an industry that is being carried on extensively in all the Canadian provinces, in at least a dozen of the northernmost states of the United States, and beginning in Japan and Norway, all lying in much the same climatic belt, adapted to domesticating the black fox, under the most favorable conditions. Birds’ nests used by the Chinese are built by a sea swallow with a gelatinous substance taken from the sea moss. They attach the nests to high cliff*- where it is dangerous climbing to get them. They should be soaked, after washing in wsCrm water, in cold water over night, then boiled in milk until they may be pierced with a broom-splint. They are then added to a clear soup.

The Y. M. C. A. was founded In England by Sir George Williams, a London merchant. Williams* organization grew out of meetings he held for prayer and Bible reading among his fellow-workers in a dry goods business in the city of London, and was founded in 1844. Similar associations had been in existence in Scotland at a much earlier date In 1824 David Naismith started the Glasgow Young Men’s Society for Religious Improvement, a movement which spread to various parts of the United Kingdom, France and America. Tenter the name was changed to the Glasgow Young Men’s Christian Association.