The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-21
ROUND The WORLD

There are $4,000 workers in the Ger
man printing trades.
London, England, has more than co.
600 street gas lamps.
Kansas City merchants lose $1,000 900
q year to shoplifters.
Several European insurance COM
panies will take risks on standing tim
Der.
The capital invested In hotels in
Switzerland is about $16O, 900, and
It is steadily increasing.
Two million trees will be planted on
the national forests in Utah, Nevada
and southern Idaho during 1914.
In Russia only eleven In ten thou
sand people are mad. In England the
rate Is thirty-two in ten thousand.
Boston will hereafter station a ma
iron and policeman In every public
dance hall to insure good behavior by
dancers.
The largest steel ingot ever cast was
recently produced In England. 1t
weighed 100 tons, was 2315 feet long
and 80 inches wide.
The earth and rock taken out Of the
Panama canal would ill a tunnel four
teen feet In diameter bored through
the earth at the equator.
New England eyeglasses are so form
ed that when not in use and folded
they resemble a locket and may be
worn on a chain for an ornament.
A Belgian firm has adopted the ex-
pedient Of storing Its valuable draw
ings and other papers in terra Gotta
| pipes for preservation against fire.
The total money loss caused by the
Ohio valley floods last March was
$163, 100000, according to an estimate
by the United States weather bureau.
Oils distilled from the needles Of
spruce and ng trees are being used to
scent petroleum floor oils, which are
sometimes Objectionable on account of
their odor.
Although there are nearly 53,000,0 900
sheep in the United States they rep
resent less than s per cent Of the total
number Of domestic animals on the
country's farms.
Advancing prices OF horses and
mules from the United States has led
Guadeloupe to purchase many animals
from South America. The South Amer
lean mules T smaller.
Twenty-nine million dollars is soon
to be spent on public works In Moroc-
co. OF this $10,000,O0O will be for port
works at Casablanca and $4,000 for
prisons and courts Of Justice.
In every 1000 marriages solemnized
in Great Britain, twenty-one are be-
tween first cousins. Among the no.
bility the rate is much higher, amount
ing to f~orty-ive in a thousand.
In most parts of China wood is very
scarce and costly. Most Of the trees
were cut down long ago, and every
year dry leaves and grass are raked
and gathered with the utmost care.
The white marble of which the great
100000 Lincoln Memorial temple Is
to be built on the banks Of the Poto-
mac in Washington is to come from
the Sopris national forest, Colorado.
Business I'm the vicinity of Shanghai,
China, was almost entirely suspended
from November, 1911, to the end OF
February, 1912, because OF the revolu'
ton. Business is row normal again.
Three states have been added during
the year to the number Of states now
..-l-- >sAA~ss AL~ SvSn%oppniuofn CON
tence, probation or parole systems.
These are Maine, Nevada and Oregon.
Students from India studying in this
country have organized a Hindustan
Association Of the United States OF
America, to furnish information about
educational facilities at American uni
verstties and colleges to other young
men in India. T.
The Denver Council Of Jewish Wo'
men has now organized a consumptdvt
relief society. This society has built
a s~anitariurn, costing 100000, which
accommodates 40 patients. Race o.
religion has nothing to do with their ad
mission, and no payment is required.
Many American articles are at a dis
advantage in Holland because the!
are not imported directly: They ente
England free Of duty, but the repack
ing, additional transportation and i'm
port duty ON entering Holland nearl,
double the price asked for them il
England.
A record session Of chess was he'll
recently In a game between Frank
Marshall, the American champion, AM
o. Duras, the Bohemian champion
Marshall won after a ten hours cor
test, In which the loser took forty
eight minutes for the consideration 9
one move.
The tunnel between England an
France would cost $80,00O,O00. ]
would be thirty miles long, twenty
four Of these under water, most OF th
distance 100 feet below the level 9
the channel. Each Of the two tube
would be eighteen feet in diameter an
thirty-six feet apart, measured cente
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