Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1919 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS

A mixer tor asphalt or concrete ha* boon added to a steam roller by a Pennsylvania road builder, being operated by th* asm* engine. Expert butter tasters In Francs say they can detect the flavor of the soil over which cattle from which butter Is produced have fed. Th* Japamese government ha* recently announced that the government railways will reduce rales 30% on cereal substitutes ahd transport rice fre*. Ths use of seaweed as fodder for horses, developed In France as a war measure, Is now an established cumimi*, for It Is said by sumo to be superior to oats. To aid aviators a New York physician has Invented an instrurnent that tells the direction of flight, the points of the compass and angle from the perpendicular at which a plane may be traveling. In Japan hissing means delight and usually signalises a greeting: In West Africa it denotes astonishment; In the New Hebrides It I* evoked by anything beautiful; with the llasutos It is a sign of cordial agreement. Northern Chilo depends almost wholly upon two Industries, nitrate and copper mining, Of these, the former is most Important, both from the standpoint of extensive operation and the direct economic effect upon the (population as a whole, An up-to-date way of doing battle with the Canadian thistle I* that used by an Oregon man, who Inoculate* patches of tho beautiful but strangling weed with a fungus growth which destroys tho plants, root, and all. Ono thousand men at Okmulgee, Okla., signed a pledge to wear old clothes for three months and as long thereafter as they will last, or until prices wre reduced.

A new form letter printing machine cuts paper fed from rolls Into the proper else, uses three colors of Ink when desired and autatrmtlcally changes the names and addresses for each letter produced,