The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-05-16
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Paraguay is successfully growing
coffee.
Baltimore anti-noise crusaders want
factory whistles silenced.
In Tibet the work of carpenters and
masons is done by women.
Atlanta is to have a large interde.
nominational rescue mission.
An electrically driven machine to
split kindling wood is a novelty.
Roast muskrat is being served as an
epicurean delicacy in New York hotels.
In a good year France pays taxes on
more than a thousand million gallons
of wine.
Platinum for wedding rings is the
latest Partisan fad. Platinum is cost
lier than gold.
Professor Hueppe Of Berlin says
Americans are coming to be a nation
OF dope fiends.
Statisticans say 100000 worth of
golf balls are knocked about on Ameri-
can links annually.
Hospital nurses in Flatbush, N. Y.
have been forbidden to amuse them
selves with ragtime music.
Philadelphia reports that the diph-
iberia death rate of 1912 was "a per
cent lower than that Of 1911.
The pulp mills Of Sweden require
1880 tons of sulphur annually. Prac-
tically all of it comes from Sicily.
st. Agnes lighthouse in England has
been closed and the light extinguished
after 23O years of continuous service.
During the last few years the price
of raw produce Of farms In the United
cent.
st. Louis is I,eing urged to adopt the
plan of assessing benefited localities
for the purchase and maintenance Of
parks.
Denmark has dropped its plan to en-
large the harbor of st. Thomas in the
West Indies, owing to lack of financial
support.
The most complete reference collec-
ton of drugs in the United States has
been installed in the National museum
in Washington.
In 1900 31.1 per cent Of the popula-
ton of Washington was colored. while
two years ago this percentage had been
reduced to 2S.5.
Hunters killed $3.50 deer in the Adj
rondacks last season, according to sta
tistics collected by the New York state
conservation committee.
Belgium has a capital punishment
law for murder and sentences prison
ers under it. but never can find any
one to act as hangman.
OF the 100000 inhabitants Of Lon
don, more than 100000 have to live
on less than Sc a week for each family,
while more than 800. 600 are in chronic
poverty.
One Of the unique sights Of the
streets of Port Elizabeth, in South At
RIGA, is drayloads of ostrich feathers on
Saturdays when the weekly steamers
leave for Europe.
A German vacuum ice machine of
convenient size for household use does
away with the need Of using dangerous
acids and can be operated by n hand
or a small electric motor.
The use Of wood block paving in Paris
is steadily extending until now most
Of the leading II and public
places OF both sides Of the Seine are
paved with that material.
A Delaware builder of high speed
boats is mounting the rudders just
forward Of amidships to avoid inter
ference with the propellers and to
keep the craft from skidding on turns.
With good reason is Guatemala
known as 1.-The land of the six cent dol
lar" Its currency has steadily shrunk
in value until now the Guatemalan
dollar is worth about 6 cents in gold.
OF the million dollars spent by the
city of Stockholm, Sweden, for its
school system last year $4,000, vas for
domestic science, $17,5OO for school,
lunches, $500 for school physicians
and $2,4OO for the dental clinic.
The French government is encourag-
ing experiments with a new device to
protect against hail, essentially a very
large lightning rod Of pure copper,
which is claimed t. affect atmospheric
electricity so that hailstones cannot
form.
The territory of Hawaii has now ac-
quired for $4,000 the 3S7 acre Palolo
water rights. On Palolo hill a big res
ervoir. probably the highest in the re-
gion. will be built shortly, and the
work Of connecting the new supply
with the city mains is to be rushed to
an early completion.
The Germans are doing excellent
work with cement, converting It into
forms Of every possible description and
producing limitations of many classes
Of stones and tiles. The confidence OF.
German builders i'll cement for all pur-
poses seems to be boundless, and they
are willing to erect lighter structures
than architects in the United States.
When completed. the Laufenburg
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