Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-12-20
ROUuD inr WORLD

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A tablet weighing four ounces CONF
prises an entire meal IN the ohIteo>
States army's newest emergency ra'
ton.
Every year 100000 pounds of con-
densed milk and 5.0OO.OO0 pounds OF
h~,sc,its are sent to China from Eng
land
The British army costs per mar more
than twice as much as the most eA-
pensive compulsory service army III
Europe.
Within ten years twenty-five square
miles of land around New YORK nave
baen reclaimed by being filed In Win
coal ashes gathered in the city
..Education. detection, control
sbo,ld be the w~atchwords Of the cam
paigp against tuberculosis. accorulhs
to the Chicago tuberculosis ins'llule'
Primarily for the use of tnval1ds Is
q chair invented by a Tennesseean' 50
eouipped with mirrors that an occu.
nant can see what is going on around
him without rising.
The suprene court Of Leipzig has de-
cided in the~csse OF a waitress VIM
was dismissed for flirting with custom
ers that flirting WAS not criminal anu
was necessary for a waitress:
The education conference in PeR1hg
has resolved to establish in the next
three years further universities III
Canton. Wuchang and Marking, in ad-
dition to the existing n at Peklng'
The largest destroyer in tie world
was recently put aioat at Cowes. She
is called the Tome. Her displacement
is 1850 tons. She has been bullt TOT
Chile. and mounts six four-inrh guns
With the completion Of he Panama
canal Japanese steamships Will proc
ably for the first time ply ofhthe Az
lantic seaboard. particularly IN con
nection with the extensive raw cotton
freight traffic.
Thirty-ive young girls at Alhacete,
Spuin. have vowed not to marry any
Young men who prior to their tWenty-
eighth birthday have not given proof
of their in the bull ring as
amateur toreadors.
A process for making alcohol from
the waste parts of henequen plants has
been discovered in iucntan. ana II Is
believed that the new industry VIII
add considerably to the already large
income nccrring from that plant.
Out of approximately $500 students
listed in the college catalogue at Rar'
ward fifty bpar the name Of Smith.
The Browns are a poor second. Win
twenty-four representatives, but are
tied with the members Of the Davis
family.
All our coffee must be purchased
outside Of this country. but this Goes
not deter the American public from
using 87O.0OO. 900 pounds of 1t every
year. or nine and oue-fourth pounds for
each man. woman and child In the
country.
Nine. Mathilde David. a Paris shop
keeper. who set herself on fire after
saturating her clothes with petrol. stat
| ed In a letter that she had chosen the
most painful death she could think OF
to punish herself for having vexed her
dead husband during his life.
Large districts fn~the far east for
merly planted In tapioca are now be-
ing planted in rubber trees, and as a
consequence no lower prices for tapi-
oea are looked for. Land for tapioca
! growing can be used only o~ne-fourth
Of the time and must be left die for
the remainder.
Consta n%tinople's principal department
stores are run on the same lines as
, the stores In New York or Chicago.
They do a great deal Of window dress
Ing and interior decorating Advertise
ments are run in French. Turkish and
Greek newspapers. and they have spe-
cial bargain days.
In Rome Ga. the percentage Of old
men. hale and sturdy. who are making
a living without assistance Is large.
More than fifty men beyond the age of
seventy-some are nearer eighty-nre
| caring for themselves. earning suffi.
cient for their needs. Most Of them
served four years III the southern army
Two thousand three hundred love
letters. dating from the year 1899 on
ward. arranged In bundles Of fifty
tied with jeweIed silver chains and
written by six different girls. were
found preserved in an ivory casket in
the bedroom OF a lonely bachelor who
has just died at Melbourne at the aga
Of eighty-twO.
The Suez canal. according to Ship
ping Illustrated. Is owned by q private
company. the Gle Unlverselle dn Ca
nal Maritime de Suez. Its president
secretary. manager and a majority OF
it's d~lrectorsare French. Great Britain
1t is stated. has never interfered In the
management Of this company. nor has
the French government
Norway intendsIo celebrate the cen
tenary OF the adoption of Il constitution
on May II. 1914. By holding u nationa
exposition at Christiunia. May Is Il
Sept 80 or possibly as late IA Oct Is
1914. 1t was first intended to hold al
International exhibition. but the storth
ing parlia ment hats decided that
national exposition will be of create
value to Norway.
Ancient farm houses have been gath
cred from all parts OF Denmark ant
placed in the grounds OF the famous
Danish National museum ut Lyngby
with II vjn" Pa 6J.,.i finr fhn p,.,rtn q