The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-07-11
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Porto Ricans are displacing bul
drawn carts on great estates by auto
mobiles.
The demand for - .ir h.des In South
Africa is met by ka -ching alligators ir
incubators.
Evangelist Billy Sunday says the
last genuine religious revival in the
United States was that Of 1857,
midas latest great irrigation project
Is the Niri Right Bank canal In Bonn
bay presidency 1t cost $S.50OO00.
A hospital for women will he estab-
iished n south London because of ut
least supposed demand that women
want women doctors.
There are now New York, Chicago,
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia market
Ing clubs, the last to be organized be-
ing those of Philadelphia.
Motormen of the traction system of
the English city of Birmingham re.
ceive cash bonus,1 when they avoid
accidents due to Negligence.
Old Epiphany Baptist church, Phila-
deIphia, long landmark, is to be de-
moliShed to make way for an apart
ment house to cost $1,000,000
Recent official figures placed the
number of sheep in Australia and New
Zealand in excess of 1l7O00,000, the
greatest number in eighteen years.
An American sewing machine com
pany has opened eight schools in
China In which the natives are taught
to embroider with silk by machinery.
DR.. II. S. Frost. superintendent of
BostOns Hospital For the Insane, re.
ports great success in the use of warm
water baths In calming violent pa-
tents.
New York authorities are starting a
campaign for stricter law to govern
and restrict the sale of cocaine. The
present law Is too feeble to check the
traffic.
Germany's area devoted to vine cul.
ture reached Its maximum, 29T, 037
acres, in 1906 and has since decreased
by $1,000. The vintage varies greatly
from year to year.
A shadowless drafting table invent.
ed by Wisconsin man is made of
plate glass. lighted from below by
electric lamps. which also quickly dry
ink used on drawings.
The record for submergenCe Is claim
ed by the Italian navy, as one Of its
submarine boats recently remained I'M
der water with twenty men on board
for twenty-four hours.
On the back of each seat of a new
London theater there will be coin IN
the slot telephones to enable persons
with defective hearing to listen to
what is being said Oh the stage
The National Poultry association has
been organized In Havana. with
branches all over the island, for the
purpose of promoting the breeding of
all kinds Of poultry on large scale.
The price of fresh salmon in Ger
many is about A cents u pound in the
spring and reaches double that figure
at other times. Canned smoked sal
mon is preferred to the fresh canned
fish,
Minute measurements Of ball bear
Jugs ON the axleS Of New Jersey troll.
ley cur that has Travelled about 100.
900 miles in four years showed that
they had resisted abrasion almost per
fectly.
Parties sent out by the French gov
eminent to explore the Sahara desert
have reported that the obstacles in the
way Of building railroad across the
waste of sand are not so great as was
supposed
Captain Louis c. Flatau of st. Louis
has ll0 practical inventions to his |
credit In the patent office at Washing.
ton. His latest is turbine engine
which he expects to revOlutionize
by land and sea.
Deck benches that have been In.
stalled on the steamers of one trans.
atlantic line can be converted into life
RATS to carry six persons by raising
lower portions to level with the
seats, where they lock automatically.
The popular belief that the Panama
railroad was constructed at a cost of
one life for every railroad tie is a gross
There are 10000 ties.
and IN the five years of its construc
ton total Of 1000 laborers were EN-
ployed.
All our coffee must be purchased
outside Of this country. But this does
lot deter the American public from
using S70,000.000 pounds Of it every
year, or nine and one quarter pounds
FOR each man. WOMAN and child In the
Now that LasSa has succumbed tc
he advance of the globe trotter what
s the most inaccessible place In the
world outside the polar regions? The
london Post answers the oasis Of Kuf.
"a, in the Sahara desert, the home OF
he Senussl.
AIgiers is said to have the largest
european population Of aHy city IN AZ.
lea. Johannesburg comes next. then
)ran viii the class In geography
tindlV locate tho Ia tfar fou,n ,,,ith Il, |