The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-12-19
ord-Herald.
Within oneself must be the source
Of strength, the hasis of consolation
Marcus Aurelius.
ROUND THE WORLD

I
French scientists say dogs spread
consumption a. a... .
Missouri corporations last year paid
$8S4,712 in taxes to the United States
treasury. -... +.
The pontoon Of a new German by
| droaeroplane closely resembles rae
Ing motorboat.
| Within the last two years agricul-
! tural wages in Scotland have risen at
I least $50 year.
| Boston has a woman that has won
! first prize in forty vegetable shows
! during the past season. -
Hamilton, Ont. proposes an electric
| sign mile long and about 100 feet
high advertising the CITY,
Australia's new nickel coins will
have scalloped edges to prevent their
| being mistaken for silver money. -.
Since 1920 nearly 100000 immi-
| grants have landed in United States
| ports In the past year 1,197 1872 came.
In British Arabia native laborer
| earns from Ito 16 cents a day, on
| which he supports himself and his
| family.
| Venice is wrestling with the peculiar
problem Of rapidly increasing popu-
lation without being able to enlarge
! the city.
The new Chinese department of ag-
riculture and forestry is very largely
| manned by Chinese graduates Of the
colleges Of this country.
| A red cross sign made Of glass, which
| can be Illuminated from within by an
incandescent lamp, has been invented
| for physicians automobiles.
| Plans for the foundation of a new
hospital at Parel, suburb of Bombay,
! as memorial Of the late King Ed
ward, are now being framed.
By breeding blind fish found in dark
| caves under red light for several years
| German scientist has succeeded in
producing fish with useful eyes.
It is estimated that $10O00,0OO in
gold is burned annually in China.
where certain anniversaries are OBJ
served by the destruction of a piece Of
gold leaf
In the United States, in every bust
ness day of the year. $1,O0O,OO0 worth
of property IS destroy gu, three lives
are lost and seventeen persons serious
ly injured by fire.
The entire street railway system of
a city in Australia was tied up when a
| pet parrot escaped from it's home and
dragged it's chain across two wires,
causing short circuit.
Photographers now receive light very
. similar to that through the traditional
studio skylight by vapor tube electric
lamps filled with carbon dioxide in.
stead of mercury vapor.
y The town planning development at
| Southend, London's new suburb, for
| ty miles due east, on the English chan
| mel, is COW erting that part Of the coast
into a model garden city.
Resembling pruning knife, but with
| heavier insulated handle, is sool in
! vented by a Californian for removing
| insulation from electric wires without
danger of shock to user.
In Naples motor trucks are still used
very little, partly because of conser-
vatism and partly because of the
rough street paving Of large lava
blocks, which is hard on all kinds of
vehicles.
Henry Hittson, aged eleven months,
of Fort Worth, Tex, probably holds
the worlds record for living grandpar-
ents. of whom he has seven. He has
| four reat-grandmothers but none Of
| his great-grandfathers is living.
! The Harlem (Holland) General So
ciety For Bulb Culture offers a. prize
of 1000 forms for the best bulb dig
ging machine. At present bulbs are
scooped out of the ground with the
hands-a slow and laborious process.
Because he never missed writing
| letter to his mother each week Of the
| fifteen years he has been in America
J. w. Gordon. tailor Of East St. LOU
is, is heir to 100000 left by his bach
elor uncle. L. Liebowitz of Libau. Kuh-
| land, Russia.
The famous old yacht America,
| which won the Queens cup in the
races between the American and Eng
| lish yachts over half century ago. is
now owned by Butler Ames of Massa
chusetts. Occasionally the yacht is
taken out for a short cruise. g.,
A man in New York has been arrest
ed and sentenced to eleven months in
prison for the crime of stealing baby
carriages. It seems not to have been
a pastime with him, but business.
| and he admitted that he had been en-.
gagged in it for twenty-five years.
Boys in a fresh air school in Buffalo
| prune the orchard trees on the school
grounds, grow catalpa trees for future
transplanting, study bird whistles and
notes as they hear them in the orchard
and incidentally acquire valuable in
sight into the main principles of fores-
| try.
The unrestricted use of machine
boats by Greeks in the waters of Trip
| oil bae Greatly ia ma nnd tho normal in