The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-11-12
ROUND THE GLOBE

The United States Is salt Import
Ing country.
Brazil has had an unprecedented rair
fall this year
New York reports the cent theate
on the decline.
Venezuela has adopted the metri
system of weights and measures.
In the past two years Paris has spen
sT4S.000 to entertain visiting kings.
Australia is taking steps for prese,
walton of its giant stringy bark trees.
In parts OF Norway the area of cul
tivated land might easily be quadru
pied.
There are 2S7 gas lighted buoys 10
Gated on the waters of the Unitet
States
The United States Inst year solo
/ S3S5.000.000 worth of foodstuffs to for
eign nations
Some OF Poland's salt mines have
] been worked uninterruptedly for more
than COO years.
There were only 6.99S females among
the 3s.053 persons who immigrated to
Cuba last year.
Statistics show 800 deaths of infants
.inder one year old to every 1000 births
I'm European Russia.
The mortality in Italy has been re-
duced from 30S per 1000 in 1872 to
about 10 at present.
Chicago's old Union club has closed
It's doors. Founded thirty years ago.
Too exclusive to live.
Builders Of 200 foot concrete Chin
ney in Germany used the reinforcing
steel as a lightning rod
At the usual price of electricity a
motor on sewing machine will take
10000 stitches for cent
Australians famous black opal mines
are running out. the present output be-
ing practically none at MI.
A wet summer like this years means
a loss of 30 per cent in the profits from
tourist travel in Switzerland.
An American sewing machine COM
pany has opened eight schools In China
in which the natives are taught to en-
broider with silk by machinery.
A miniature fountain attachment for
bottled water holders has been patent
ed to enable persons to drink without
touching their lips to any receptacle
There are no suitable pulping woods
in Australia or New Zealand. so that
these countries are wholly dependent
on outside sources for their paper sup.
ply.
The banknote washing machine
which has been in operation at Wash
ington for short time has a capacity
of 10000 to $4,000 pieces in an eight
hour day.
A striking decrease in infant NOR
tally has been noted in Manchester,
England, since the introduction of strict !
regulations as to the sale of milk from |
cows.
The supreme court of Leipzig has de |
cided In the case OF II waitress who /
was dismissed for flirting with custom
ers that flirting was not criminal and
was necessary for waitress.
Swansea Is the chief seat of the cop
per smelling trade in Great Britain.
and within compass of four miles il
possesses various works. giving en-
Dloyment to over 10000 persons.
Oysters in viennese restaurants cost
800 n dozen and are therefore not
much in demand Only about $4,000
worth are annually imported mostly
rom Belgium. Germany and Holland
For photographers use In dark rooms
here has been devised lamp carry
ne several different coored glasses In
wheel in front Of its opening so any
olored light can be obtained when
desired
In America says the Louisville Con-
schoolteacher works
Ipon the average for about half as
much as a bricklayer and has to tell
he boys that education is a necessity
they would get on in life.
The work OF thickening and heighten- :
lg the Assuan dam. on the Nile. to its
ew level will probably he completed
his year. The dam will then be able
, hold 2.300Oo0,0O0 cubic meters OF
alter or more than double its original
lpacity.
''The largest door in the world" says
a Revue Scientifique. is now being
instructed at Cherbourg for one OF
lie drydocks of the arsenal" 1t
easures over IN feet long by 80
road and has cost 100000 A num-
ar of similar doors are said to be also
lder construction fer other French
lval ports.
The rabbit pest i'm New South Wales
spreading Notwithstanding all that is
ing done In the shape of trapping.
'isouing, fumigating and digging out.
he greed of the rabbit is proverbial,
ID the amount OF heritage devoured
! this animal is considerable The
loss sustained is conse-
lently an immense one.
On emerging from the railway sta /
IN at Zurich one comes across three
idle aged women kneeling at their
xes and eager 10 impart lus;er 10
e travellers boots. In the intervals Z
leisure they are generally seen knit ]
IL stockings. Search the rest of the
sy city and you will with difficulty Q
able 20 get your boots cleaned
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