The Caucasian., 1912-04-11
ROUND The GLOBE

A yearly allowance of $2,5OO,0OO Is
being granted to the ex-emperor of
China.
Support of INDECENT insane aliens is
costing New York more than $5.OOO.OOO
a year,
The French minister of commerce
has been petitioned to wage a war on
tight dresses.
Gold coined in the United States in
1911 amounted to S56.176.S23. against
$104, ,723, 735 in 1910
1t was recently reported that Glas-
gov, Scotland. had 10000 unlet houses
and 1900 empty shops.
In Germany alcohol is now prepared
from chicOry root, which grows in va
rious parts Of that country.
Felix Schweighofer, the German
comedian who died recently. left an es-
tate valued at 100000 marks
Production of pig iron in the United
States in 1911 amounted to 23,649,344
tons as against 27,303 .567 tons in 1910.
Three hundred miles of electric rail
roads. to be supplied with power by
near by waterfalls. are being built in
the Pyrenees.
Tokyo exceeds ali cities of the world
in the increased cost Of living. The
Japanese attribute this increase to the
overproductiOn.
The public subscription in France for
providing funds for an aeroplane feet
attained nearly $4,000 within three
days of its opening.
\ new white metal alloy, atherium,
Is lighter than aluminium. makes sound
castings. turns we'll and may be SOL
dered, forged and welded.
London has G734 music teachers.
more than 1000 professional solo vio-
linists and LOO professional vocaIlsts.
of whom 63S are sopranos.
According to a new Swedish method
Of using peat for fuel, the dried peat
is first brought to a fine powder and is
then blown into the furnace by an air
fan.
There are thirty dental surgeries for
school children in Sweden. Great ben
eft has been derived from them, the
children showing marked improve
ment.
New Zealand's postal revenue is lar
ger in proportion to population than
that Of any other country. 1t exceed
ed $5,000,O00 last year or S. for every
inhabitant. ->
Experiments made in France show
that by adding cents worth of pea
nut oilcake to a cows winter feed her
daily yield of milk can be increased by
10 to Is cents.
Bohemia is consuming greater guam
titles of nonalcoholic drinks in the last
few years than was previously the
case. showing liking for soda and
mineral waters
The city of Rome is engaged on a
project requiring subway tunnel from
st. PauI's gate as part of an electric
road to run to the sea coast at Ostia.
There were more railroad accidents
in the year 1907 than in any other
year in tie past ten. the number being
1928. The next largest was l,415 in
1908. The smallest was 547 in 1902.
Black sage. wild sage and swamp
bay are three wild plants from which
the United States bureau of plant in
dustry has distilled aromatic oils that
may prove of considerable Importance.
Japanese army officers are testing
new bullet proof coat just invented by
a native 1t is said that bullets fired
from revolver at distance of twen
ty-fve feet make only slight dent in
the coat,
For signaling between aeroplanes an
Ohio national guard officer has invent
ed device which emits large or small
smudges of lampblack as key is
pressed in imitation of Morse code
dots and dashes.
Ships medicine chests for the Brit
ish merchant service have undergone
regulation, the new requirements of
the board of trade abolishing many OBJ
solete drugs and substituting modern
medicines in tablet form.
A machine has been invented by
which the magnetic DETECTION of
compass produced by the metallic
parts of ship may be accurately
This is equivalent to re-
moving the long standing difficulty.
The net profit from the state rail-
ways of Russia has increased by
about $135, 100000 during the last four
years Other indications of Russian
are given by the $10O.OO0,-
600 excess of revenue over estimates
in 1911.
Labouehere of London Truth, in his
long career as editor and publisher. re-
ceived hundreds of writs for libel. but
the highest damages ever obtained
against Truth up to 1910 amounted to
f600, and the paper has only lost six or
eight actions.
The British government last year re-
ceived E1,129,260 in dividends on the
Suez canal shares which Lord Bea-
consfieId bought for f4,000,000 thirty