The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1912-12-16
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ally eighty are males.
Uncle Sans annual market bill is es
timated at $S,o0o,oo0,0O0.
The United States geological survey
will expend S1,410,520 next year.
The scabbards worn by Russian o.
6cers are made of papier mache
Artificial arms and legs, and even
ears, are being made of aluminium.
British Empire In the Antarctic re-
gion amounts to 1000 square miles.
Both the Chinese and japanese man
ufacture alcoholic beverages from rice.
Meat is cheap in Lima. Peru. Loin
cuts of the best beef are only II cents
pound.
A woman living near London is en-
gagged in raising Eskimo dogs for arc
| tic expeditions.
American made shoes compete in
parts of Russia with american" shoes
made in Germany.
Tortoises are cultivated for their
shells In the Seychelles island. and the
industry is very extensive one.
A new electric process for coating
iron or steel with lead has been
brought out by an English scientist
A power driven rotary hoof parer, to
take the place of the horseshoer's
tongs. knife and rasp. has been invent
| ed
Merida, Yucatan, boasts 103 private
automobiles and four garages. The
streets are paved with asphalt and
! brick
| South of the equator Buenos Ayres
Rio de Janeiro and Sydney are the
three largest cities. according to popu-
| Iation.
Newfoundland has eleven separate
cable lines. belonging to four compa-
! MES. which connect Europe with North
| America.
| Inclosing one asbestos box within an
/ other. with an air space between, a
| Frenchman has invented a fireproof
| jewel case.
| just been started in Germany. that of
| aids in laboratories and other scientific
| institutions.
In France 21.24 per cent of the pop
ulation are employed in agricultural
| pursuits In the United Kingdom the
| percentage is SIS.
Bombay gets its water supply from
| three artificial lakes that depend upon
| the rainfall in the monsoon season for
| their replenishment.
OF hops worth $2.970.O0O imported
| into Great Britain in the first six
months of 1912 100000 worth came
from the United States.
| The Jerusalem municipality is com
| posed of ten members. only one Of
| whom, the president, receives a sal
ary-about $64 a month.
| Success has attended the experiment
| of transplanting rubber trees in Brazil.
/ where groves are being raised at more
accessible points than the existing
| ones.
The consular district of Madras oc-
cupies the southern portion of the In
dian peninsula. extending over 265. 900
square miles. and has a total popula-
ton of G5,559. 294
The food consumed by New York
| city costs at the railroad and steamer
terminals s330,000,000 a year, but when
it gets to the consumers kitchens il
costs $500,000,000 year
y judge of the Wellington (New Zea-
land court proposes TO petition the
legislature to make the custom of
shouting australian for treating) in
Dublio boucaS an offauca
In 1907 the average outlay for food
per each American family was 1878.
while ten years before it was a trffie
less than $500. At the present time
this figure has reached $410.
Children in the public schools Of sta
vanger, Norway, are treated with the
aid Of American dental apparatus by Il
dentist who received his postgraduate
dental education in the United States.
A steamship company is being form
ed for traffic on the rivers Tigris and
Euphrates. The first contract covers
the transportation OF building material
for the Bagdad railway from Bassorah.
Since bread is the staff of life, and
bread to the Americans means wheat
| almost exclusively, 1t IS perhaps not
| surprising that we consumed approx
mately SCI 100000 bushels of wheat
last year.
Among the many surprising facts
! brought to light relative to the fem
mist movement in India the news that
/ II per cent of the money lenders of the
country are women is particularly in
| teresting.
A Chinese. Fuz Yu by name, lived
many years in this country and h.-
came an enthusiastic av.ator. He has
gone home to Picking, where he cpu-
ducts Il tiourishing school. teaching ta.
natives how To fly.
The total sum raised by the Dickens
centenary fund is S72.1on which, :.t..
the deduction Of EXPENSES. das hs..a III.
vested for the benefit of the unv,.G-.--
five observation-disclosures -Iff. yr-5.- -.5.. .