The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1912-09-20
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LcADkl6 ONAk ~ $500
Ii shortly to be torn down.
An ostrich farm is to be established
at Curacao, Dutch West Indies
Nearly two-thlrds OF the men Of the
Transvaal states are unmarried.
London has about 1900 milk shops
and about the same number Of public
houses,
The Goldfish shipped out Of New
foundland each year Is valued at So
100000
Russia supplies Great Britain with
the greater proportion of her poultry
and eggs.
The water powers In this country
now developed save 33,0O00O0 tons Of
coal per year.
There were 1921, 624,0s4 cigarettes
smoked In the United States In the
fiscal year 1912.
Composed of silver and aluminium,
argental Is intended to be used as q
substitute for silver
Bone grating Is being resorted to In
Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, IN
treatment of hunchbacks.
DR.. r. q. Doollttle Of Washington
says to cheaper cost Of living eat
more beans and less beef.
A completely equipped laboratory
for the study Of ozone has been re-
Gently established In London.
Tennis Is becoming popular in Japan,
and Tokyo has six factories for the
manufacture of tennis rackets.
Krupp's factory at Essen, Germany,
now employs $4,000 skilled wOrkmen
as compared with 10000 thirty years
ago.
Within ten years twenty-five square
miles of land around New York have
been filed In with rubbish and coal
ashes
Cadiz, Spain, will this year cele-
brate the centenary of the termination
Of the Siege Of the city by the French
In 1912.
Old North church, Boston, Is under
going restoration. The interior is to be
placed In the condition obtaining pre-.
vious to 1905.
A woman's club in New York since
admitting men to membership has In.
creased the number Of Its women mem
bers by 20 per cent.
The tower Of the rebuilt customs
house, Boston, will be 500 feet high
when the new 81 ,349,OOO structure, soon
to be erected. Ia completed.
Unable to support its convicts any
longer. the Bolivian government allows
them. under supervision, to beg for
their living from house to house,
The value of secondary metals Chose
recovered from scrap metal, sweeplngs,
/ sklmmings, dresses, etc. last year In
the United States was S52.5s5,30O.
A Danish scientist has designed an
electro chemical apparatus for storing
up the energy Of sunlight and trans
hitting 1t 10 the form Of electric en-
ergy.
For use on rivers subject to great
tidal changes an Alabama engineer
has invented a floating wharf which
runs up and down upon a solid incline
laid with rails.
The people Of Kirin, Manchurla, have
been so slow In dlscardlng their cues
that a government barber shop, In
which work is done free, has been
opened In that city.
During the last fifteen years over
100000 married persons In England
and Wales have been separated by
legal process, and about $4,000 persons
have been separated by private agree.
ment.
An officer of the United States navy
has found that the power of a high
speed vessels propeller is increased
about 10 per cent by placing ribs on
the faces Of Its blades to decrease the
partial vacuum that always occurs
there.
Burglars who forced an entrance into
a jewelers. Office In New York recently
carried with them an electrically
driven drill for boring into the safe,
which they proceeded to use success
fully after connecting 1t with an cleo
trlc light socket.
There are $50 weddings In London
every week. while the weekly average
number of lnquests Is 100. No fewer
than $1,000 drunkards are convicted In
twelve months, while pOstmen deliver
every day 100000 letters, postcards,
circulars and newspapers.
Tropical Hawaii furnishes the gov.
eminent with the cheapest Ice that is
supplied to the army, In Chicago,
where much natural Ice Is secured,
the price to the army ranges from %
cents to 81 for 100 pounds. The Ha
waiian price Is Is cents for 100 pounds.
In upper Third avenue, New York.
q. Bun has bakery. In Columbus
avenue is Miss Stitch, women's lin.
gerie. A dealer In window glass has
a name which may be read either way.
and 1t will be the Sanction Noel. In
Boston avenue is a surgeon dentist
DR.. Morg.
Said to be the first 6reproof struc.
ture Of the kind ever built, the South
ern hotel. St Louis most famous hos
telry, has closed Its doors. through
which men who hive made history