The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-12-23
ROUND The GLOBE

In Turkey the mourning color Is
violet
New Yorks annual food bill totals
s644.Sli3.4i9.
A ST. Louis man has made $4,000 as
a rag picker.
There are 100000 farms in the
United States.
New Zealand has 233 daily. weekly
and monthly periodicals..
The climate OF South Africa is re-
markably even and sunny.
| China has sixty-four treaty and other
ports open to foreign trade.
4 Forty per cent of all Italians over
| the age of six cannot read or write.
Silver from sea water is often found
deposited on the copper sheathing of
ships
In China as well as the Philippines
the demand for lumber exceeds the
supply.
Scotland has total population not
much more than half that of Greater
London.
Experiments in dry farming. accord
ing TO the American method. are beng
made In Brazil.
Throughout the world there are over
100000 members of trade unions In
various nations.
Home economics is to be made COM
pulsory in the primary schools of Sake
Weimar. Germany.
Cyprus. under convention of 1878. |
rays an annual tribute of f92.S00 10
tue sultan of Turkey.
Chicago Is to have an institute Of I
osteopathy. to be named after Andrew
Still. founder of the science. and to
cost S1o0o.o00.
The practically barren Hawaiian is
land OF Lanai will be reclaimed by
water conservation scheme and devot
ed TO sugar beet culture.
The Germans are doing great road
building work In Africa. and at no dis
tant date the possessions OF that coun-
try In the. dark continent will be In
touch witheach other by motor routes
That all officers of the navy need not
be graduates of annapolis has again
been demonstrated In the promotion
of L. b. Ford. chief machinist of the
Baltimore. and L. NJ. Linsley. nachin-
Isl of the Iowa. to the rank of ensign.
Edward jerks. an eminent Loujor
barrister and legal writer. has per-
formed the difficult task of compress
ing within the limits of a moderate
the entire history of English
law from the earliest times TO the end
VI the year 1911.
The American Medical association is
10 make study of methods of reSus-
station from electric shocks. Many 4
eminent physicians and electrical en-.
yineers are TO cooperate in the inves. !
igation. which It Is hoped will have
important practical results. Il
There are over thousand factories 4:
n the city of Barcelona and the sur Y
ounding towns Electric power is be-
ne brought from as far as the Pyre- n
ices, and company with S25.000o0o Il
apital-mostly foreigu-has been form. Y
d to exploit the abundant water power Il
n Catalonia, n
Russia is 70 have north pole ex- n
edition of its own. under the COM Z
land of Captain Scedow, who pur- ~
oses proceeding In ship TO Franz 10
osef Land and TO 20 thence by sledge m
yer the ice TO Greenland by way of y
ne pole. Any solid ground he may Il
nd near the pole be will name Mich IL
las IL. Land. IA
Lieutenant General Sir Robert Ba. =
en-Powell. who has returned TO Lon "
on after journey around the world 9
the interests Of the boy scout move n
ent. says the authorities in Japan =.
'e making a close study of the move -
ent with a view TO its adoption for IT,
lucational purposes. rs
In addition TO the old foes OF the -
apevine. new one appeared in ~
rance during the wet weather Of the te:
st summer. II became known as the m
lick rot vine attacked soon had n
branches die. its shoots shrivel and y
clusters dry up. The disease spread lr=
III terrible rapidity. lC
are heard on all sides in IT-
E French capital that tomatoes. mel -;
3. cucumbers. squashes-practically U
erythinC excep: potatoes-have In ri
his become Injuries still beyond the lj)
lch Of the vast multitude Of work
. people whose daily earnings do not ~
coed 81 cents to 81. III
rhe system Of payment BY checks is nj
ming ground In Servia. bur until -
W there have been no LEGAL puOyi- Il