The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-11-28
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 100000
Il 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. OOO. 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 40 tons. was 23h feet long
and ~ inches wide.
The earth and rock taken out of the
Panama canal would fill a tunnel four
teen feet in diameter bored through
the earth ut 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 Il 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 COOO90. according to an estimate
by the United States weather bureau.
Oils distilled from the needles Of
spruce and fig trees are being used to
scent petroleum floor oils. which are
sometimes Objectionable on account Of
their olor.
Although there are nearly 100000
sheep in the United States they rep
resent less than 5 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
Guadelonpe to purchase many animals
from South America. The South Amer
lean mules are smaller.
Twenty-nine million dollars IL soon
to be spent on public works in MOroc-
CO. OF this $1O.OOOOOO will be for port
works ut Casablanca and 100000 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 forty-five in q 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 r raked
and gathered with the utmost care.
The white marble OF which the great
$1,000 900 Lincoln Memorial temple il
to be built on the banks Of the Pot0-
mac In Washington Is to come from
the Sopris national forest, Colorado.
Business in 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 nov normal again.
Three states have been added during
the veal to the number OF states nov
using either the indeterminate sen
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 ut American uni
versities and colleges to other young
men In India.
The Denver Council Of Jewish Wo-
men has now organized q c0nsumptive
relief society. This society has built
Il sanitarium. costing $1O7 900. which
accommodates 40 patients. Race or
religion has nothing to do with their ad-
mission. and no payment Is required.
Many American articles are Mt Il dis
advantage III Holland because they
are not imported directly. They enter
England free Of duty. but the repack
ing. additional transportation and i'm
port duty Oh entering Holland nearly
double the price asked for them IN
England.
4 record session Of chess was held
recently In a game between Frank j.
Marshall. the American champion. and
O. Duras. the Bohemian champion.
Marshall won after a ten hours con
test. In which the loser took forty
minutes for the consideration Of
me mOve
The tunnel between England and
france would cost $SO.OOO.OOO. It
would be thirty miles long. twenty
four of these under water. most Of the
distance 100 feet below the level Of
the channel. Each Of the two tubes
would he eighteen feet in diameter and
thirty-six feet apart. measured center
to center.
Firemen In Amsterdam have little