The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-03-08
ROUND The GLOBE

In 1911 foreign countries invested
sl00,000,0O0 in American farming ma.
chinery.
A Cincinnati packer has invented
way to cure hams in thirty days in.
stead of ninety.
Waste cork, formerly thrown away.
is now an important byproduct which
sells at S24 ton.
The Italian authorities are now un-
earthing the most magnificent villa yet
discovered in Pompeii
or all the nations the United States
alone allows the use OF white phos-
phorus in making matches.
Hawaii's exports during the fiscal
year 1911 were valued at S41. $685. ,5S3
and her imports at $27,512,5S0.
The Chinese Anti-opium league re-
ports that in 100000 market towns
throughout the empire all opium dens
and dives have been closed.
A double sided founder, both sides
being marked alike, with duplicate
fins, and having a misplaced eye, was
recently caught in English waters.
The number OF divorce suits tried in
the Scottish courts last year was 2iO
as compared with 224 the year previ.
Gus. In only six cases were DEGREES
refused.
The governor OF Hawaii recon-
mends the creation of a national park
to include the largest active volcano,
Kilauea, and the occasionally actiTe
Mauna Loa.
For SO cents one can send parcel
weighing forty pounds, insured for a
value of 5000, from any point in Swift
zerland to any railway station within
the republic.
On Broadway, New York, there is
sign outside barber shop which reads:
Come in and have your eye painted.
Black eyes done over for 10 cents"
And the shop does a good business.
Though a battleship building in Eng
land for China's navy will have a ton
mage of but 2,4OO. it will be complete
Dreadnought in miniature and will be
used as a training vessel for naval ca
dets.
The assessed valuation of property in
Greater New York, according to the
last compilation by the state tax COM
missioners. comprises substantially 70
per cent Of the total assessed valuation
Of the entire state.
Germany's naval budget has increaS-
ed in nine years from 104000,000
marks to 434,O00,O00 marks, while the
annual expenditure on the German
army has risen from 677 100000 marks
to S07 100000 marks.
The vast extent of northern Rhodesia
renders it impossible at present to esti-
mate even approximately the extent of
the rubber areas, but such evidence as
is available points to the great pro-
spective value Of this asset.
Some 2,20O applicants answered
London advertisement for a caretaker
to be paid $S75 week. OF these 900
had excellent testimonials as to faith
fulness. honesty, tact and intelligence.
The job went to an Oxford graduate.
At one point near Lyons the Rhone.
at times when the SHOWS melt in Swift
zerland, runs through a defile that
makes it the most powerful of Euro
pean torrents. This wasted force it is
now proposed to turn into electricity.
At the recent sale of the Nightingale
porcelains at Christie's. London,
Bristol teacup and saucer. painted
with figures emblematic OF liberty.
sold for $3.50. A hexagonal teapot and
cover of Chinese enamel went for $3.50
James c. ogden, missionary at Ba-
tang, Tibet. holds the most inland sta
ton in the world. Batang is 2,400 miles
from Shanghai. AGO miles from the
nearest poStoffice. and it takes five
months continuous travel to reach it
from New York.
By way of securing water power
from the Rhone 1t is proposed to build
huge cmbankment at Genissiat,
which Is to convert the whole valley
of the upper Rhone as far as Geneva
into an artificial lake. with a capacity
of 500000O0 cubic meters.
London. through the system of water
waste detection introduced by the chief
engineer of the metropolitan water
board. has reduced the daily consump-
tion ten gallons per head of population
In east London enough water has been
saved to supply a city of 100000 in
habitants.
Levi p. Morton has given his pew In
Grace Episcopal church. Broadway
and Tenth street. New York. to the
church corporation to be forever a
free pew. This makes the eleventh
such pew in Grace church. This seat
which Mr.. and Mrs. Morton have had
for many years, is on the middle aisle
on the pulpit side. near the front.
According TO the czarina. Russia's
troubles are due to the education Of
women. All girls. says she. should
be taught to sew. to care for their
homes and TO become helpful wives
and good mothers. but they should
never be taught history. philosophy or
science. "because those studies when
offered to women only result in such
terrible times as Russia Is now passing