Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1907 — Odds and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odds and Ends.

Danish engineer discovers a process by which beer is made from tablets. Last year 31 large steel vessels were built for service on the great lakes. Sweden is tbe most progressive country in Europe in use of the telephone. Only 35 per cent of Spain’s 20,000,000 population are able to read and write. German steamer lines threaten to stop mail service on Atlantic unless paid more. Elks parade in Philadelphia in hottest day of year; 4,430 persons were sunstruck. 1 ii William Abrams Martin, the solitary survivor of the twejve men who convicted John Brown, is still living in Virginia. He has celebrated his seventy-fifth, anniversary. Tbe value of the India rubber imported into the United States daring the last year in the crude form aggregated $50,‘OOO,OOO. Braxil ia the chief source of supply. A Chinese merchant of Pekin who was convicted of murder was sentenced to death by being deprived of sleep. Four warders kept watch over him to keep him awaka and oa tba tenth day be died.