The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-01-10

! pl0yed outside Ot their own families
After many tests under government
supervision in Germany. s;1t has been
found the best preservatlve for butter
Women occupy an important position
in the public services OF France, no
fewer than l55,02s being so employed.
According to experiments in Ger
man schools. girls seem to have the
color sense better developed than hoys.
According TO recent official statistics,
the estimated population Of Roumania
ut the end Of the year 1917 was 7.OS6.-
T96
United States annually expends S.
000O 0O.0UO for liquors, vi ,20OOOO,0OO
for tobaccos and $50O000,O00 for mo.
tors.
One years supply Of coal for New
York, loaded into fifty ton ears, would
make train reaching from that city
to Salt Lake City.
The looser the snow as it lies on the
ground the greater its power to pro-
tect vegetation beneath it, according
to German scientists
There were 1850 cremations Of hu.
man bodies In Switzerland last year,
an increase of % per cent over the
number for the year before
The invention of flame derived
from electric energy that will not give
off heat is claimed by French scien-
fist who is keeping the details secret.
Collars and cuffs made of the curds
of goats milk. dried and compressed.
the invention of Partisan, are said to
wear nearly as we'll as celluloid arti'
cles.
A report from Berlin says that fash
ionable women of that city are carry
ing silver spoons in a case for use II
they partake Of ices in confectioner's
shop
Married in ballroom. spooned In the
clouds, landed in pig sty, is the ex
perience of Kansas City couple who
went up in a balloon for their honey.
moon.
Ninety thousand horses perish every
year on Manhattan Island. and no fewer
than $500 of these succumb IL CLAN
ders communicated by 1lthy horse
troughs.
Caps and masks made Of aluminium
tubing. through which either hot or
cold water can be circulated. have been
invented by a Vienna scientist for use
as surgical congresses.
Cheese is coming more and more in
favor for lunches IN England. In ad
dtlon to the homemade product there
was consumed last year imported
cheese that cost $34,746.OO0
The number Of meals given to school
children in England last year was lG.-
$4,000 The cost was El53,0OO, Of
which only E1,375 was received from
parents as voluntary contributions.
A method for stopping leak in .
vessel with compressed air, at the
same time preventing injury to Other
parts of the vessel has been success
fully tested in the United States navy
Besides the sparrows and the pigeons
which inhabit the atmosphere Of Lon
don. there Is a great nest Of crows In
Gray's Inn. the last survivor Of numer-
Gus rookeries which used to exist In
the old buildings of the city.
Welsh gold mines, in one Of which
rich vein is reported to have been
struck, have been Systematically work
ed for over sixty years. Gold was first
discovered in the principallty In lS45.
in lode on the Clogan mountains.
Bacon seems to be even better liked
In England than beef. The imports OF
bacon last year were 4,SGS. I3S hundred
weight against 3.SG3. $3.50 in 1870 where
us the imports Of frozen beef were
smaller in 1917 C3.42oO7ij than in 1916
g. 7GG.STSj
A passenger on German steamer,
after trying various remedies for sea-
sickness. ate a pancake with (Germanl
and found himself prompt
~ cured All the steamers Of that line
now have "l'funnkuchen nit Prefssel
beeren" on their menu.
Cyprus. which wishes to unite with |
Greece. is only nominally Turkish, for,
since 1878, the whole Of the admins
trutive power has been welded by
Great Britain. The island was cap
tured by the Turks in 1910, when
Eelim H., with an army Of 10000. con.
quered 1t.
There are thirty.three members OF
the British house Of lords Of eighty
years and upward as against six OF
the lower chamber. The Earl Of
wemyss tops the list with nlnety-four.
and then follow Lord Strathcona at
with Lord Nelson. Lord
Lord Feel. Lord Scarsdaie
whose son Is Lord Curzonl. down to
Lord Roberts. who is eighty THE house
Of commons has but one nonagenarian.
and hfa name Il Young.