The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-05-12
BREV|TIES

A chicken may be bought for 5 cents
(gold) in west China.
In point of tonnage Antwerp is n
Of the four largest ports in the world.
The salary of the mayor Of Dublin
has been cut from $4,000 a year to
$4,000.
Employees Of jam and marmalade
firms in England earn from 50 to $3.50
per week.
The total value of church property
in the United States for all denomina-
tons is $1,257,575,s67.
In the white public schools in Alas
ka in 1910 there were G21 pupils, main
tanned at a cost of $36,486.
Forty years ago the paper making
industry of Finland was in it's infancy.
Now it is worth 100000 a year.
An Italian inventor living in Phila-
delphia has patented a burial casket
to hold a corpse seated upright on a
stoo...
The record of cost to manufacture a
moving picture film was attained
when a French firm spent $4,000 to
reproduce an opera.
Cocoanut oil, egg yolks and u small
proportion of cream are the ingre-
dientssof IL new butter substitute man.
ufactured in Bohemia.
OF similar form to the usual type of
life preservers is a new n made of
air tight metal chambers. which will
not decay, as will cork.
The art Of photography has been
advanced in Siam by the royal family.
several members of which are expert
amateur photographers.
BY making sweet scented black
beads from rose petals, pulverized and
baked into a pulp. a California woman
Is believed to have rediscovered a lost
art of the middle ages.
The Egyptian government imposes a
heavy fine on firms using Egyptian
tobacco to fill Egyptian cigarettes.
The tobacco actually used is Turkish
and the paper Hungarian.
The earth and rock excavated from
the Panama canal when finished II
piled into a column a. yard square
would reach three-fifths of the way
from the earth to the moor
Tests made by the University Of 1lli-
nois have shown that coal loses less
heating value by exposure to the air
while being stored than it does by the
breaking Of the Jumps into dust.
Trade of the United States with non.
contiguous territory In 1910 reached q
total Of over $780, 900. an increase
Of roundly 100 per cent owe 1908. the
first year for which figures are avail
able.
Even though Russia's fisheries yield
more than 600 pounds Of sea
food annually the demand exceeds
the supply to such an extent that the
empire imports more than 400.O00.O00
pounds of fish a year.
That California last year shipped
l5.344.188 pounds Of prunes to Ger
n:any and almost as great a quantity
to France ia n Of the interesting
fas ts of C%alif0rnia's export industry
revealed by the custom house mani
tests.
The inner bark Of the cotton tree 10
utilized sbE the inhabitants Of Bahia
for mnny' purposes. It tsfa remarka-
bly, strong fiber. and a strip one-half
inch in width will without any prep
aration sustain a weight Of 50 to 100
pounds.
The largest international hygienic
exhibition that has ever been held will
take place the coming summer from
May until October in Dresden, the at.
tractive capital Of saxony. It will be
open to every American article Of drst
class make.
a French financier. AugusteS Loutre-
al. who died recently, left 100000 to
various institutions for the advance
ment Of science, and his gift ID con.
sidered very unusual. Giving money
for such purposes % not q rich mans
habit In France.
An international musical congresssis
70 be held In London next May to.
bring together the leading musicians
OF the world:as a fund of 5000 has
already been suarantsabs shissNwiilb he
the lilst congyess of ~ character ever
held q England Ss