The Caucasian., 1913-10-09
ROUND THE WORLD

Jacksonville Fla. rnforceS total alb
stinence IN its police department,
There are 39I.:}1o United States gov
ernment ions under civil service.
Rolling chairs on Atlantic city board
walk do an annual business OF 100000.
Montcvidru university, Uruguay, re
Gently paid SOL, 400 for half grain of
radium
The value of this years catch of cod
fish in Newfoundland is estimated at
81, 113. 900
Metal Shavin"S and cuttings are now
pressed into brick form and made use
of in iron smelling
The propeller Of Il new boat is drtv-
en- by the rise and fall of the waves
on which the craft rests,
The first dam in Hollands great
project for draining the Huyder he"
will reclaim 1Uo,uoo acres.
CorSetS that can be lnoScncd by mOy-
ing single lever on the SteciS have
been Invented hy a Paris woman.
The Daily Republic, one Of tn" ma
lished "PiIgrim'S Progress as a serial
Shafts sunk into coal field in Ger
many, which has been burning several
years. revealed eighteen veins Of blaZ
ing coal.
Bolivia was once included among the
great silver producing regions of the
world. but its output now is of reIa
lively minor importance.
Doctors in Paris have begun cru
sade against womcn's wells, which they
declare are perilouS to health and mere
receptncles for microbes.
Under new British cyeSght testrulcs
licenses to pilot mail steamers on the
Atlantic are granted only to men who
can distinguish white, red and green
lights the size of pnhead twelve feet
away
For frightening burglars there has
been invented haShlight that reseni-
bles magazine pistol, but which
shoots a ray of light when the trigger
is pulled
There has been a large increase in
the number of Chinese newspapers
since the revolution in that country.
Shanghai alone now has twenty -four
newspapers.
In France experiments with freezing
fish in blocks of ice for transportation
are being tried, the claim being made
that they can be revived by slow
thawing and sold alive.
Fire recently destroyed Killarney
House, one of Ireland's most famous
show places. It's rare tapestry and
china We're lost Killarney House was
occupied by the Earl of Kenmare.
Five thousand copies of the Bible
have been placed in the guest rooms
of the hotels of Washington through
the efforts of the Gideons, or Christian
Commercial Travellers Of America.
To solve the problem of disposins Of
the dead a famous German architect
proposes to erect in the chief cities
immense pyramids, each of which
would hold the ashes of a million ere
mated bodies.
Tests made by the department or
agriculture indicate that butter made
from pasteurized sweet cream, with no
other preseryative than salt and her
metically sealed will keep practically
indefinitely in cold storage.
According to Professor Kromeger.
German, 5000 years hence all males
Of the human species will be conf
pletely baldheaded. 1t is reassuring to
know, however, that women will re-
tain their beautiful tresses.
All the colleges report increased at
tendance this year. Some Of the larger
institutions have not room for all who
apply. The growth is specially notice
able in the institutions that admit
women to higher education.
Although soldiers are posted at diff
ferent city gates of the Chinese city OF
Chungking for the purpose of reWov-
ing the cues Of all persons who pass
through, the country people for the
most part still retain the cues.
The macerating machines at govern
ment headquarters in Washington de-
stroy $3,5OO,OOO daily. Charity work
ers frequently write in and ask for the
condemned paper money, citing the
great good they could do with 1t.
In reply to a notice posted by the
military authorities at Metz prohibit
ing the speaking of French sign
board has been erected at Nancy.
across the border, with the inscription
in German, "Gsrman is permitted to
be spoken here"
New York's underground population
is sufficient to make city of consider
able proportions, fG according to the
best. obtainabIe statistics about 10000
persons in New York city spend their
entire working hours beneath the sur
face of the earth.
DR. Hrdiicka of the Smithsonian in
sttution believes that there exist in
several places in Siberia, Mongolia and
Tibet numerous, remains Of an ancient
population which was physically iden-
teal with and in gil probability gave
rise to the American Indian.
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