Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1919 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

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The National Council of Women, with Its affiliated organizations, represents 10,000,000 women. Great Britain has spent $700,000,000 on industrial housing since the war begaln; with our late entrance we have spent $110,000,000. In the province of Bengal, India, 26,486 animals died of contagious diseases during the year 1917-18, as against 8,415 in the previous year. It is now possible to make a continuous railroad from Perth, western Australia, to Brisbane, Queensland, a distance of 3,895 miles. The most active volcano in the world is Mt. Sangay. It Is 17,196 feet high, situated on the eastern chain of the Andes, South America. It has been in constant eruption since 1728. President Roosevelt’s visit to Panama in 1906 broke the custom of the President not leaving the country during his term of office. President Rooselvelt went to Panama on this occasion to visit amd inspect the site of the Panama canal.* When the temperature is 32 degrees, sound travels 1,090 feet a 'second and one additional foot a second for each additional degree in temperature. Electricity over a wire where there is no resistance travels 192,924 miles a second. A new heat insulating materal composed of a mixture of special clay and cork, has been discovered by a Norwegian engineer. The clay and cork mixture is burned, and the result is the formation of a very light substance that is said tn be eminently suitable for a'l heat insulating purpose. China had women soldiers long before they were Known in Russia. During the Tae Ping rebelling I .‘OO women as well at men seivtd in the ranks. In Nanking in 1P53 an army of 500,000 women "•as recruited. They we-e divided into brigades of 13,000 each and were commanded by women offi-

cers. A goat fancier in Frankbr.. Mass., shipped thirteen goats to 13. F Moore, of Winsted, Conn., and the railroad express d •iivered fifteen to Mr. Moore, who put them in his stable. When lie went to lcok after them there were stve..t en. Mr. Moore 'named the first set of twins American and Adams, ni d the second Wells and Fargo The old -t 1 otamical ware <D ibe W( rid is sculptured ■>'.! toe \»al • .of a room in the great temple of Karnak at Thebes, in Egypt. It represents foreign plants brought home by an Egyptian sovereign, Thotmes 111, on his return from a campaign in Arabia. The sculptures show not only the plant or tree, but the leaves, fruit and seed pods separately, after the fashion of modern botanical treatises. With the death of Theodore Rooevelt, William H. Taft is the only living ex-Presid«pt. Previous to Mr. Wilson's taking, office, the ex-presidents living during the terms' of various Presidents were as fbllows: In McKinley’s term, Cleveland and Harrison; in Benjamta Harrison’s term, Cleveland and Hayes; in Cleveland’s first in Arthur’s term, Hayes and in Aruthur’s term, Hayes and Grant; in Grant’s, Johnson, Fillmore and Pierce; in Johnson’s, Buchanan., Pierce and Fillmore; in Lincoln’s first term, Buchanan, Pierce, Fillmore, Tyler and Van Buren; i<n Pierce’s, Fillmore, Tyler and Van B ren; in Fillmore*, Tyler and Van Buren; kn Taylor’s, Polk, Tyler and Van Buren, in Polk’s, Tyler, Van Buren., Jackson and J. Q. Adams; in W. H. (Harrison’s, Van Buren, Jackson and J. Q. Adams; in Van Buren’s, Jackson and J. Q. Adams; in Jackson’s J. Q. Adams, Monroe and Madison; in John Quincy Adams’s, Monroe, Madison, Jefferson and John Adams; in Motoroe’s, Madison, Jefferson and John Adams; in Madison’s, Jefferson and John Adams.