The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-09-12
ROUND THE WORLD

AU8tElo y S0OO08V pAOAOSSsVA 0AVO~s~
to 100000 tons annually.
The ancient city of Smyrna Is to
have an electric street railway.
History records hunger strikes In
England in the seventeenth century.
San Francisco's Panama exposition
will award $4,000 in live stock prizes.
Statistics show 579,s52 more church
members In the United States than
last year.
Professor e. NJ. East of Harvard has
Invented a new variety Of tobacco by
hyb%rldlzation.
at 2,O91, 900, but counting its suburbs
1t claims 100000.
New Orleans requires all bread Offer
ed for sale to be securely wrapped to
protect 1t from flies.
Oil that works we'll as fuel in en-
gines Of certain types has been pro-
| duced In Sweden from shale and slate.
memorial tablet on the grave of Com
modore John Barry. father Of the
American navy"
Ten years ago the Greek raisln crop
| was scarcely more than 1000 tons per
| annum. The average now IL between
| 5000 and 1000 tons.
Japan is buying a steadily increasing
amount Of foreign machinery and en-
gines, the total purchases for 1912 -ag-
gregating $14.175.889.
It Is estimated that. as a consequence
Of the war, Macedonia has lost 100000
| Of her population through death, emf
grafton and otherwise.
German builders have announced
that they will place on the market an
| oil burning engine Of the marine typo
that will develop 1000 horsepower with
q single cylinder.
When the water power Of Great lake.
In the center Of the island Of Tas-
mania, Is harnessed to electric gen
orators the island will be almost COM
pletely electrified.
BY the use of devices that retard the
draft Of heating tubes Of their boilers
! two German transatlantic liners have
saved 10 per cent in fuel without Inn
pairing their required speed.
The usual cost Of labor in railway
construction work In Portugal is about
as follows: L%aborers, Al cents q day;
masons. Is cents; stone workers and
carpenters, 81 cents; bosses, $1.41.
The French postal authorities are ex-
p%erimenting with American automatic
and semiautomatic telephones in two
cities with a view to their general in
PRODUCTION into Paris IL satisfactory.
The Germans know how to make for
estry profitable. The receipts from the
Bavarian state forests, for example.
were ~$14,573,587 in 1912, of which
$7,433.1 1913 wal In excess Of expenses.
One bride in ten in California is q
Divorce. Statistics compiled by State
Statistician Leslie show that the total
number of brides In 1912 was 31,276.
OF this number 1904 were divorces.
Thirty.two years g women wero
| admitted tc the Massachusetts bar to
practice as lawyers on an equality
with men. Today of the $500 lawyers
in the Boston directory only sixty arc
women.
In China a reaction has set in, and Il
is reporter that 60 per cent Of those
who adopted foreign dress last year
have gone back to native clothing. the
| result being a rise of 20 per cent In the
price of silk.
Panama is more healthful than e
The last report by Colonel Gorgas
shows that the average death rate
among employees for 1912 was only
TIA per thousand as against 1912 In
1911 and 45.73 in 1905. ~
American sewing machines are very
popular at Jibuti, French Somaliland,
Africa. The American machines sell
there for prices ranging between $23
and $43. There is no complaint against
high prices, as the tailoring class is ap-
parently prosperous.
Salt is evaporated from ocean brine
at Alden. the production last year being
estimated at 10000 tons. Probably
$50 tons are consumed In Alden and
1000 tons sent into the hinterland,
while still larger quantities 60 to In
| dia as ballast for ships.
The increasing popularity Of dog
meat as a table delicacy among the
I Door Of Berlin is no better shown than
by the recent decision to erect al abat-
toir for dogs. This decision was taken
after the city officials had received re-
ports on the consumption Of dog meat
in the capital which showed that such
an abattoir was necessary.
The harbor Of Reykjavik, In Iceland,
Is to have q railway built about Il -
as TO facilitate the transport Of freight
and Ease the congestion due to Old
fashioned methods The enterprise =
small to begin with, but It Il thought
that once an opening II made on tie
island q railway running across -
Thingvalla Will be built.
Japan has finally decided, after e0-
periments extending over some yeaEak
to put beef on the daily diet Of her
navy. The q 10 that tho men II