Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-11-29
ROUND THE Globe

Scotland has over 100000 p
Cannibalism exists 10 Sierra Leone.
The United States leads the world In
coal production.
London milllners are using seaweed
for hat trimming.
Paris reports rents rising rapidly.
Same case in Madrid.
The Chinese legation in London has
discarded the "pigtail."
United States mines last year yielded
S2,7O0 worth of diamonds.
In two years $4,000 elephants have
been killed in central Africa.
The Brazilians make beautiful lace
from the fiber of the banana.
Within Chicago city limits there are
1900 miles of railroad tracks.
There are 722,335 hard and soft
coal miners in the United States.
Constantinople. the capital of Tur-
key, has a population of more han a
million.
Porto Rico's commerce is now $92,-
100000 a year, five times as much as
In 1901.
New Orleans is planning to hold a
great fair to celebrate the Panama ca
nal opening.
An international exposition of horti-
culture will be held at st. Petersburg
next spring.
One effect of the Chinese revolution
bo, hnnD pop,irN,o H. 49,, ,-5
amusements.
Buffalo refuses permission for con-
struction of burial vaults outside regu-
lar cemeteries.
The price Of pearls Is shortly to ad-
vance % per cent. Poor pearl fisheries
returns this year.
Professor M. j. Rosenau of Harvard
says infantile paralysis is caused by
the bites of stable flies.
German experiments aro said to
show that dried potato greens are an
good for stock MS Is meadow hay.
Divers are trying to recover $1,000
600 in treasure sunk in 1T9o in the
Zuyder Zee on the frigate Lutine.
Norway has forty schools for ele
mentary instruction In agriculture,
horticulture, forestry and dairying.
The salt deposits of the United States
are ample enough to supply the ma
TONS demands for many years to come.
Chocolate. desiccated eggs and sugar
make up more than 80 per cent Of the
United States army's new emergency
ration.
Female school physicians have re-
Gently been appointed In four German
cities-Munich, Nuremberg, Colmar and
Hochst.
Electrical apparatus which accurate
iy determines the n and tone OF
human voices has been invented by a
German woman
James Stewart of Glasgow after
three years in Africa expresses the
belief that many natives speak the Ian
guage Of the monkeys.
indianapolis men nave pledged $780,
600 toward the proposed $10,00O,OO0
automobile highway between New
York and San Francisco.
Australia has established a training
school for boys who wish to become
expert rr-mers. but who lack the
means to Is4saHsFcr instruction.
Liverpool is recovering meM,.rge tea
trade II had formerly. but which It iU4&
to London for a time because of Insult
6cient dock and warehouse facilities.
1t Is estimated that betterment Of
the 2.250.000 miles of roads In the
United States will cost 500, SOC, 900. 600,
and to keep them in good shape 81, 49,
000,O 900 yearly will be needed.
According to a Chicago statisticiaD.
90 per cent of the children of that city
attend day school. while only SO per
cent attend any Sunday school and
only three-ffths of these attend regu-
iarly.
Deposits In savings banks In this
country reached a total Of $4.212 $685.
500 in 1911. the latest year for which
figures are available, compared with
50. 1o4 .4S6 In 1902, an increas OF 60
per cent.
Birmingham, England, has q new
style Of life saving apparatus for the
fire department E%ntrapped persons
are rescued In a cage which is raised
and lowered to the windows Of the
burning building.