The Caucasian., 1913-12-04
ROUND The WORLD

3 SdAH'd o SeTN11W
Ehe wealth oQ ohe Unioe2 States %
estimated ae s93e.op 400, 600
yhe Nrea8 caters os SeW Sos& city
aevour dlais 8. 465, $50 loaeee
O.. O.. Geuncap o8 london, aged ni0esyo
ewa Gas lived HesS1y fifty Ceaee 90
awo meals oay.
Sew gork oo~ Gae snunecipaD COIN
plaina oursaue @Sishee cdsSeOo mas
resor0 90 "kicke
Ihis gears crop % EoenIosan teas 1s
reported 60 be aeStee ehan Urov6ouslv
In many seasene
10 has Neen estimated ohae eros, ,D0-
O0S wood scluws are @se6 60 Che aSie-
ed States each seas.
Asbestos deposits anroughoue O ee-
gion approximately 9 by . miles in eS-
tent have been discovered in Natal.
a man arrested in Paris secently Gas
wearing five eaistcoats, ave pairs OF
trousers, eve % socks enc tive Of
stockings.
Boston's new custom Aouse will De
| 500 feet high ana has been designed
virtually to crown the oity's Syramldal
sky line
According to the canadian Corestry
association. 50 per Gene of Canada is
capable of growing nothing but timber
| crops.
Individual glass rooms, with private
| telephones. will be provided patients
recovering from infectious diseases IN
| new Chicago hospital
Willow is the lightest of British
woods. A cubic foot of it weighs but
thirty mounds A cubic foot OF box
weighs fifty-seven pounds,
King George V. Of England has Or
derad Viscount Knollys to write an
official biography of the late King Ed
ward
More than 400 patents have been ts-
| sued by the United States FOR devices
| intended to harness she COVER of sea
| waves.
The absence % tunnels on sAe deck
| of the Imperator is accounted FOR by
| the fact thap the ventilation 9e done
mechanically.
| 1t is proposed to award hero medals
TO those who save victims of electrical
| shock. asDhyxiation and similar fatal
! ties by resuscitaticn.
| Thomas Harney has retired at seven
| ty-five after serving forty-five wears
as a policeman in New York. Hei will
draw pension of $7O0 year.
| Of anfirf
world on a scale of one to 100000 was
planned at the recent international
| geographical congress at Rome.
| After seven years Of effort an Amer
ican expert has established in Uruguay
one of the largest and best equipped
| veterinary colleges in the world.
Although Belgium has reduced the
| working day of it's coal miners to nine
hours, the enforcement of the law has
not apparently affected the produc
tion.
A novel feature of London's electri-
cal restaurant is the standing invita-
| ton for all patrons to visit the Kitchen
| at any time and watch the preparation
Of food.
Eighteen hundred Japanese emf
grants left for Brazil recently. This
makes the total in that country 1890,
all of whom are engaged on coffee
plantations in Sac Paulo.
A solar physics laboratory is to be
| erected in New Zealand, at Nelson.
The site will probably be on summit
known as the Fringe, which has an
elevation of $500 feet above sea level.
Tests having shown that recon
noissance work cannot be effectively
done at greater heights than 2.60O
feet, the French army has decided that
It's war aeroplanes must be armored
against rifle bullets.
| Delhi has population Of about 1885,
600 people. The permanent population
will probably be increased by the resi-
dence there of 5000 or 1000 govern
ment officials when the new govern
ment Offices are ready.
Some of the larger dry goods houses
of this country are said to expend an
nually as much as 100000 in the prep
aration of samples, which are sent to
their patrons throughout the country
from which to make selections of
stock.
| During the fiscal year nearly $4,000
grazing permits were issued in the ma
tional forests, and more than 10000
600 head of domestic animals were Civ
en- advantage of the privilege Out of
the vast number of permits issued
only IA cases of grazing trespass were
observed
Student insurance is feature OF
German continuation schools For an
! insurance fee of 10 cents per half year
the students in the schools for build
ers, for example, are insured against
all accidents that may happen to them
in the schoolroom or on the way to
and from school.
Panama has been losing business
steadily of late because of the with.
drawal of thousands of workmen who
were employed in constructing the ca.