Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-02-01
TIMELY BREv|TIES


pounds
An electric crane in Scotch ship
yard has handled loads Of 1877 tons to
q height of l43 feet
One Of the finest coast lights in the
world is being erected eighty miles
north Of Hongkong. China.
Cats are now taxed $1.2O head in
the city of Munich and provided with
special collars and metal license
checks
Wood prepared in certain form is a
common and constant article of food
in all sections of Siberia where the
Yakut lives
Ammonia caused seventy-one deaths
in England during the past year.
thirty-three of them being accidents,
the rest suicides.
AT the beginning of 1911 SPANS
merchant marine consisted of 3O2 sail
ing vessels of more than fifty tons
each and ST steamers
The Union of South Africa. which
includes the Transvaal, Cape Colony.
Natal and Orange Free State. has
population of 100000.
Members of the Panama canal com
mission have begun advertising warn
ingS that the canal zone is oversup
piled with workingmen.
A Bavarian infantry regiment quar-.
tered in Metz has been given permits.
sion to manufacture cigars for the ex
elusive use of the regiment.
1t is estimated that about 100000
was spent during the last three years
by native merchants in Omdurman.
Egyptian Sudan. on house building.
Turkeys gradual change from ma
tional system of time to a European
standard has led to a demand for
watches with two dials to show both
kinds.
Bohemia is consuming greater guam.
titles of nOnalcOhOlit' drinks in the last
few years than was previously the
case. showing !; liking for soda and
mineral waters
The United States geological survey
and Maine authorities are working to-
gether to produce Il topographic map
of that state that will be thirty-two
feet long by twenty wide.
An Austrian athlete who is giving
exhibitions in Europe has such con-
troll over the muscles of his heart that
he can stop that organ beating for
twenty seconds at time.
Fridtjof Nansen has conclusively prov.
ed that the Norwegians discovered
America. Columbus has been relieved
Of an awful responsibility
The sale has recently been reported
Of the wooden mills at Laxey. Isle of
Man. which John Ruskin established
some forty years ago to put into prac
tice his theories of handicrafts and
manufactures.
In New York city during the past six
months only two in every 100 cases of
poverty in the care of charitable as
ISOLATION were traceable to drink. Sick
ness caused 43 per cent and unemploy-
ment Is of the cases.
Swedish wood pulp is more and more
sought after. The wood from Swedish
forests. being Of slow growth. is of
specially high quality and suitable for
a tougher and stronger kind of paper
than that which is made of softer
wood
New Zealand dealers recently ship
ped several consignments Of frozen
ducks to London with good results
They sold for about Is cents each and
when ready for the table are said to
have averaged up to the English prod
uct. -... .a.
By the annexation of the suburbs
Oakley and Pleasant Ridge the city of
Cincinnati now completely surrounds
the smaller city of Norwood. The con-
dition Of one city of the first class be-
ing completely surrounded by another
and larger city is said to be unique in
the United States.
The radium bank of Paris is con-
stantly increasing it's staff Of women.
due to the rapidly increasing use Of
radium in medical and surgical prac-
CANS' 49, POISCAS VI luC Auul tcIOuS lA1u-
eral women are employed in preference
to men. One. hundred thousand dol
lars worth is intrusted to them daily.
A Japanese scientist has discovered
new and effective treatment for lep.
rosy. the asbis of which is the applica-
ton of ''tetrod toxin a substance ex-
tracted from the poisonous elements Of
the globefsh, known in Japan as fugu
The scientist referred to is Dr. Tahara,
president Of the Tokyo hygienic labora-
tory.
Japanese paper suitable for bank
notes. stock certificates and bonds,
such as is manufactured from the bark
of the mitsumata tree. is not to be had
in sufficient quantities to meet the de-
mands Of the United States and other
countries. This paper trade. including
various other varieties. amounts to
about $1.500.OO a year.
Coats will no longer form part of the
uniform of troops in the field The
war department. has decided that a