The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-12-21
FROM FOREIGN FIELDS.


For more than three centuries
paper manufacturing has been an i'm.
portant industry in northern Holland.
A paper mill was founded in 1906 at
WestZaan, and was soon followed by
others, the excellent product of which
found great favor the country over.
As early as the second half of the
seventeenth century Apeldoorn, in
the Province of Gelderland, was the
seat of many paper-making establish,
ments. While small rivers and brooks
furnished the power for the mills in
Gelderland, wind supplied it in the
district of the Zann River, whittier
many of the GIendedlandsche fact
tories removed in 1872. Up to this
sine the paperfactories in the Zaan
Valley are making very cheap
paper, but the competition of the
newly arrived Gelderland industries
forced them to manufacture super
ior quality. This, it is stated, was
the beginning of the fine paper-mak,
ing industry of Holland.
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The most expensive act of dam
age ever committed by railway
worker was that of an Italian navy
employed on the construction OF a
tunnel though one of the mountains
in the Black Forest. Having grudge
against his foreman, he succeeded one
night in altering the position of the
stakes which marked the course OF
the WORK. The eXcavators were work
upon the tunnel in two sections, one
north and one from the south. OW'
ing to the shifting of the stakes the
sections, instead of being directed to
the same point, were found to be
twenty-six feet apart when they reach
ed the middle of the mountain. The
northern half of the tunnel had there
fore to be entirely reconstructed, at
cost of $4,000.
A people without any form of relig'
OHM, without superstition, devoid of
any thought of the future state, has
been found in the interior forests OF
Sumatra, according to DR.. Wilhelm
Volz, the geologist of the University
of Breslau who made extensive
journeys through tn island. There
he found the kubus, as he named
them, who are scarcely to be distin-
guished from the small man-like ape
of the Indo- Malayan countries. They
are wanderers through the forest
seeking food. They have no property.
They are not hunters, but simply cot
lectors. They seek merely sufficient
nuts, fruits and other edible grawths
to keep them alive.
The court train of Irish lace sub
scribed for by the ladies of Ireland as
a coronation gift to Queen Mary is
finished. The train, which is prob
ably the finest piece of point needle
work ever made, has occupied CITY
sempstresscs in Youghal ever since
the order was given in May last. 1t Is
four yards long and nearly two yards
vide at the bottom; tapering to the
width of the shoulders at the top. 1t
is worked in a cowboy design OF
fuchsias and roses, and it is stated
that it contains more than five and a
quarter million stitches and 10000
yards of thread. The train was ready
for the Delhi durbar.
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Tobruk is the only safe port for
large vessels for over a thousand
miles on the North African coast,
and is the headquarters of the Libyan
sponge fishery. Tobruk has long been
the outlet for the trade of the GASES
Of the neighboring desert, but it is
as a man-o'.war harbor that it is like
ly to be important in the future.
Both British and Italian squadrons
have at times visited it, and in 1898
the French fleet eluded the vigilance
of the English ships on their way to
Egypt by running into Tobruk.