The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1913-09-25
ROUND THE WORLD

WIN uepenu lurEeiy ON nSnerleS.
Mexico's first button factory has been
started in Mexico City. Ecuadorlan
Ivory nuts are used.
A press weighing 1900 tons has
been manufactured I'm England for
bending armor plate.
Dean George Hodges Of Harvard
theological school. says the world never
was socially better than II is now.
Alloys Sulzer OF st. Louis is protected
from kidnapping by his first wife by
big bulldog provided by his second
wife.
India annually exports about n mil
lion pounds OF fab maws and shark
tns for edible purposes. mainly TO other
oriental lands.
Chicago makers of women's ready to
wear garments employ over 100000
persons and have n yearly output
valued at S27.oo0,Oo0.
The British meteorological office has
established station for furnishing
weather information and forecasts to
aviators and aeronauts.
In Chicago young woman caused
the arrest Of her beau for yowling
like cat under her window to at
tract her attention at midnight.
There are about 300 electric stations
In the United States equipped with Ice
making plants profitably to utilize the
surplus power In the summer months.
The importation OF cotton prints has
gradually dropped TO nothing I'm Japan,
because OF the increased manufacture
at home Of the cheaper grades of cot
ton goods.
A new German machine cleans and
sorts medicinal tablets. rejecting brok-
en- ones, and packs them In boxes or
tubes at rate OF from 10000 to
100000 a day.
IGNORING the memory OF John
Kinzie. Chicago's first civilian, q bronze
tablet has been unveiled at Pine and
Kinzie streets. under the auspices of
the Chicago Historical society.
Southern Belgium Is likely to OBJ.
tain great water supply from an un.
foreground lake which was discovered
short time ago At present it is de-
pendent on rainwater.
1t is common saying In the far east
that Japan pays its national debts Din
raw silk and silk products The mi
kado's realm last year sold 500 OOO,-
600 worth of these materials abroad
During a recent election In Sweden
the interesting fact was revealed that
only 80 per cent OF the women voters
were disqualified for failure to pay
taxes as compared with 24.o per cent
Of the men.
A French society for the encourage
ment Of national industries recently
awarded a gold medal to farmer
who established a sauerkraut factory
In which all tho machinery was cleo
trically driven.
That an ostrich farm is Of more
value than a good cattle ranch Is
shown by an authority who puts the
value OF a beef animal at $40 at FIVE
years OF age, while an ostrich of the
same age is worth $500.
Paraguay tea (yerba mate) is becom-
ing a formidable rival OF tea and cof-
fee In South America. Brazil export
ed over $10,0O0,0O0 worth Of it last
year. After coffee and rubber, IL is
now the most important OF Brazil's ex-
ports.
Pupils in German school were re-
Gently tested as to their reading OF
newspapers. In the highest elementary
class OF fortyfour, twenty-five read
newspaper every day, fifteen at
least once o week and four less fire..
quently.
An interesting new farm product,
the "beetato," Is hybrid, between an
Irish potato and q red beet. 1t has
the shape OF potato, the meat being
deep purple. Great possibilities are
claimed for the product as a food. A
farmer at Silver Springs Station, Ore,
Is experimenting with the hybrid.
An English case OF separation Is re-
corded where the wife waived alimony,
STIMULATING only that she should not
be disturbed In the use Of room In
u house owned by her husband, where
she had n machine and earned her
living as seamstress. This was also
inserted in the separation papers
The department OF agriculture has
issued the largest water power permit
ever Issued by that body, granting
rights to the Pacific Light and Power
company of Los Angeles to operate
power plants in the Sierra national
forest 1t will carry electric power
$40 miles to Los Angeles and vicinity.
There are more deaths than births ia
Prussia, and the only augmentation
Of the population Is. by illiterates from
the near east France has just voted
large grants to parents who have more
than two children, and Ii Is considered
likely that other states suffering from
the loss OF native population may do
likewise
It Is shown that the Mysore infant
marriage prevention regulation has
caused a decrease Of infant marriages
IN the state. In 1901 there were 1902
such marriages, but In 1901 these were
reduced 10 7,13O, and now the last
census glves.the number OF girls under
ten years Of age who were married
during the decade as only 1904.
blaskans say that indlscrlmlnate
slaughter soon will drive the whales
out Of the North Baelac, and that this
will result I'm tho destruction OF the
salmon industry. Countless millions
Of herring, now driven close to shore
by the whales. will stay out I'm the
deep water, they declare, and the sal