The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-11-13
ROUND THE WORLD.

HOOVO I'LL VOuLD
None OF the Roman ruins shows 4
chimney.
French scientists say dogs spread
consumption.
missouri corporations last year paid
SoS4,1l2 in taxes to the United States
treasury.
Inc pontoon of a new German nv
oroaeroplane closely resembles rae
ing motorboat.
Within the last two years agricul
tural wages in Scotland have risen at
least $50 year.
Boston has woman that has woI
hrsf prize in forty vegetable shows
curing the past season.
Hamilton, Ont, proposes an electric
sign mile long and about 100 feet
nigh advertising the city.
Australians new nickel coins will
nave scalloped edges to prevent their
being mistaken for silver money,
Since 1920 nearly 100000 immi-
grants have landed in United States
ports In the past year 1,197,S 1892 came.
In British Arabia a native laborer
earns from - to 16 cents a day, on
which he supports himself and his
family.
Venice is wrestling with the peculiar
problem of a rapidly increasing popu-
latlon without being able to enlarge
the city.
The new Chinese department Of ag-
rlculture and forestry is very largely
manned by Chinese graduates of the
colleges Of this country.
A red cross sign made of glass, which
can be Illuminated from within by an
lncandescent lamp, has been invented
for physicians automobiles.
Plans for the foundation of a new
hospital at Parel, suburb Of Bombay,
as memorial of the late King Ed
ward, are now being framed.
By breeding blind fish found in dark
caves under red light for several years
German scientist has succeeded in
producing fish with useful eyes.
1t is estimated that $1O,OOO,OOO in
gold is burned annually in China.
Where certain anniversaries are OBJ
served by the destruction of piece Of
gold leaf.
In the United States, in every bust
ness day Of the year, $1,OOO,OOO worth
OF property is destroyed, three lives
are lost and seventeen persons serious
~ injured by fire.
The entire street railway system of
a city in Australia was tied up when a
pet parrot escaped from it's home and
dragged it's chain across two wires,
causing short circuit.
Photographers now receive light very
similar to that through the traditional
studio skylight by vapor tube electric
lamps filed with carbon dioxide in
stead of mercury vapor.
The town planning development at
seuthend, .London's new suburb, for
ty miles due east, on the English chan
mel, is converting that part Of the coast
into model garden city.
Resembling pruning knife, but with
4 heavier insulated handle, is a tool in
rented by a Californian for removing
insulation from electric wires without
1anger of shock to a user.
In Naples motor trucks are still used
very little, partly because of conser-
7atism and partly because of the
'ough street paving of large lava
blocks, which is hard on all kinds of
yehicles
Henry Hittson, aged eleven months,
# Fort Worth, Tex, probably holds
he worlds record for living grandpar-,
,nts. of whom he has seven. He has
our great-grandmothers but none Of
lis great-grandfathers is living.
The HARLEM (Hollan6 General So
'iety For Bulb Culture offers a prize
# 1000 forms for the best bulb dig
ing machine. At present bulbs are
cooped out of the ground with the
lands-a slow and laborious process.
Because he never missed writing a
etter to his mother each week of the
fifteen years he has been in America
. w. Gordon, tailor of East st. Lou
), is heir to 100000 left by his bach
lor uncle, L. Liebowitz of Libau, Kuh-
and, Russia
The famous old yacht America.
Which won the Queens cup in the
aces between the American and Eng
Ssh yachts over half a century ago, is
ow owned by Butler Ames Of Massa-
husetts. Occasionally the yacht is
aiken out for a short cruise.
A man in New York has been arrest
d and sentenced to eleven months in
rison for the crime Of stealing baby
arriages. It seems not to have been
pastime with him, but a business.
nd he admitted that he had been en-
aged in it for twenty-five years.
Boys in a fresh air school in Buffalo
rune the orchard trees on the school
rounds, grow catalpa trees for future
ransplanting, study bird whistles and
otes as they hear them in the orchard
nd incidentally acquire q valuable in