The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1912-10-12
ROUND THE GLOBE

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Americans yearly eat 10000 900 gal
ions of ice cream.
Fifty-seven thousand Scotchmen left
Scotland last year.
Louisville, KY. is covering old brick
pavements with asphalt.
There are over $4,000 justices of the
peace in England and Wales.
Within a year the population Of
Buenos Aires has increased almost go
600.
As a humane way Of slaughtering
cattle electrocution is being tried in
France.
By January government business
will be conducted from Delhi as the
capital of India.
Pneumatic tires are being made in
France from paper chemically treated
and compressed.
The United States postal department
employs 10000 postmasters, who draw
$2s,OO0,OOO yearly.
Two new British battleships will be
fitted with anti-rolling tanks. the first
war craft so equipped.
About one-tenth of the electric lamps
made in the United States every year
are used for advertising signs.
Buffalo excludes temporarily from
schools children from homes where in.
. fantile paralysis has been noted.
Constituting a record, the population
Of New South Wales has increased by
over 10000 during the last six months
&c. Wagner of Denver has combin-
ed raspberries and strawberries In q
new fruit to be called rasp-strawber-
ries.
In twenty years there have been 1000
inventions Of tires, not including me-
chanical devices to take the place Of
tires.
In the garden city near Dresden, es-
tablished three years ago, the mortal.
ity is only 6 per 1000, against 1877 in
Dresden.
In the United Kingdom there are a
million children between the ages Of
twelve and sixteen who are not being
educated.
There are vastly more natives in the
south of China who are cutting their
cues and adopting European clothes
than in the north.
Since the beginning Of the century
the wheat harvested in France has only
once exceeded the absolute needs of
the French people.
Within fifteen years there have been
built in Berlin twenty -four bridges over
the river Spree and neighboring ponds
and to connect new streets.
+ A London theatrical agent who has
over 1900 artists on his books de-
clares that never more than one-third
Of these are employed at the same time.
/ Despite American, German and Belgi-
an competition steelmakers of England
got the contract for building for Buenos
Aires the greatest elevated water reser-
voir Of its kind in the world.
Italian shipbuilders have constructed
a floating drydock in which submarine
boats can be subjected to external
pressure tests without the necessity Of
sinking them into deep water.
A system of personal Identification
based on the patterns Of the veins on
the back Of the hand has been invented
by an Italian scientist, who claims that
in no two men are the veins exactly
alike.
After a careful study Of meteorologi-
cal records, DR.. Peppler of the Univers-
ity of Giessen has reached the conclu.
sion that 1912 marked the beginning Of
a cycle of dry summers which will last
thirty five years.
The shell of the largest quahaug ever
found on Cape Cod weighs one pound
twelve ounces. The shell is FIVE inches
long and is thought to be more than
forty years old. 1t was picked up on
the Harwich fats.
There Is invested in hotels and res
taurants in Switzerland. which depend
largely upon tourists for their support.
about $175.OOO,OO0. and the aggregate
number Of persons employed in these
establishments is over 100000.
The bootback as a London institu-
don Is vanishing. Two or three decades
ago bootblacks abounded in the bust
ness sections Of the city, but now. ex-
cepting within two small sections. one
cannot be found in days walk.
A serving maid In one of the most
aristocratic families Of Vienna was dis
missed because 1t was discovered that
she was using her mistress visiting
cards. to which she had added her
name and the explanation, Cook to
the above"
The making Of tons Of lead pencils In
Europe has depended on the imports
Of American cedar. A firm In one Ger
man city has made 100000, 900 lead
pencils a. year from the American ce-
dar. It Is said that over 600 tons Of &C.
dar are used daily.
Norway has fish Gamers asso-
citation. the aim Of which Is to keep
mp the quality and reputation Of Nor
wegian sardines. 1t has endeavored to
secure the enactment Of laws prescrib-
ing the form of labels to be used and
prohibiting the packing Of winter
satches.
The queen Of Holland has receiy ed q
betitiOn signed by 28GO0 men asking