The Caucasian., 1912-02-15
HOUND The GLOBE

of a soaring balloon. .: -.
BY the addition of pulverized mica
concrete is nfade to initiate granite.
There are said to be many imita-
tions of dried Goldfish on the market.
In 1911 foreign countries invested
$100.o00000 in American farming ma
chinery.
/ A Cincinnati packer has invented a
way to cure hams in thirty days in
stead of ninety.
Waste cork. formerly thrown away,
Is now an important byproduct which
sells at $24 a ton.
The Italian authorities are now un-
.earihing the most magnificent villa yet
discovered in Pompeii.
OF. all the nations the United States
alone allows the use of white phos-
phorus in making matches.
+. Hawaii's exports during the fiscal
year .19ll were valued at SAL 1888. .5S3.
and her imports at $27,512,5s0.
The Chinese Anti-opium league re-
ports that in 100000 market towns
throughout the empire all opium dens
and dives have been closed. ..,
A double sided founder, both sides
being marked alike, with duplicate
fms, and having misplaced eye, was
recently caught In English waters.
The number of divorce suits tried in
the Scottish courts last year was 24o
as compared with 224 the year previ-
GUS In only six cases were DEGREES
refused
The governor of Hawaii recon-
mends the creation of a national park
to include the largest active volcano.
Kilauea, and the occasionally active
Mauna Loa.
For. SO cents one can send parcel
weighing forty pounds, insured for a
value of $500, from any point in Swift,
zerland to any railway station within
the republic.
On Broadway, New York, there is a
sign outside barber shop which reads:
"Come In and have your eye painted
Black eyes done over for 10 cents. "
And the shop does good business.
Though battleship building in Eng
land for China's navy will have ton.
mage of but 2,400. it will be complete
Dreadnought in miniature and will be
used as training vessel for naval ca
dets.
The assessed valuation of property in
Greater New York, according to the
last compilation by the state tax COM
missioners, comprises substantially %
per cent of the total assessed valuation
of the entire state.
Germany's naval budget has increas-
ed in nine years from 194.00o00
marks to 434.00Oo00 marks, while the
annual expenditure on the German
army has risen from 677o0o.0oo marks
| to 100000, 600 marks
The vast extent of northern Rhodesia
renders 1t impossible at present to esti-
mate even approximately the extent OF
the, rubber areas, but such evidence as
| is available points to the great pro
spective value OF this asset.
Some 2,2o0 applicants answered a
| London advertisement for caretaker
to be paid 1915 week. OF these 300
i had excellent testimonials as to faith
fulness, honesty. tact and intelligence.
The job went to an Oxford graduate
[ At one point near Lyons the Rhone.
at times when the SHOWS melt In Swift
, zer.and, runs through a defile that
makes it the most powerful of Euro
pean torrents. This wasted force it is
now proposed to turn into electricity.
At the recent sale of the Nightingale
porcelains at Christfe's. London, a
Bristol teacup aid saucer, painted
with figures emblematic of liberty,
sold for $3.50. A hexagonal teapot and
cover of Chinese enamel went for $3.50
James G. Ogden. missionary at Ba-
| tang, Tibet, holds the most inland sta
ton in the world Batang is 2,400 miles
/ from Shanghai, 460 miles from the
dearest postoffice. and it takes five
months continuous travel to reach 1t
from New York.
By way of securing water power
from the Ehone 1T is proposed to build
a huge einbankment at Genissiat.
which IS to convert the whole valley
Of the upper Rhone ais far as Geneva
into an artificial lake, with a capacity
of $4,000 900 cubic meters.
London, through the system of water
waste detection introduced by the chief
engineer of the metropolitan water
board. has reduced. the daily consump-
tfon ten gallons per head of population
Ineast London enough water has been
saved to supply a city of 100000 in
|shabitants. -. :. s
Levi P. Morton has given his pew in
GRACE Episcopal church. Broadway
and renth Street, New York. to the
church corporation to be forever
kffee spew This anakes the eleventh
such pew IN Graca church This seat.
which Mr.. and Mrs Morton have had
for many years, IS on the middle aisle
on che pulpit side, near the front.
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