The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-09-11
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FOwles versus KatZ was the title OF
legal case in England.
Sixty-nine banks hold city funds q.
Chicago, tutalng S2l 100000.
Lyons, France. is trying to drive on,
cocaine iends and to restrict sales.
AS Il butter exporting country Aus
tralia now ranks second. Denmark b..
ing first.
Pittsburgh clubwomen have decided
to abolish the hatp!n as a dangerous
nuisance.
Operated much like job printing
press is a new rapid printing machine
for photographs.
Esperanto is taught in some Of the
state supported srhuols in Eugan /,
France and Germany.
All over the world oil fuel is grad
ually taking the E'ace Of coal and OH.
er less easily handled fuels.
a steamship line Sui o.fyged to carry
free to England tha iyst 2O1O tons Of
cotton gown in South Africa
An electric alarm shat gives warning
when mine roof begins to move has
been invented Ivy an Australian.
Brazil is to nave the largest reser
yoir in the woriG after the dan al
troS. in the state of Ccarl, is built.
\ manufacturer Of artistic furniture
in Paris has Just completed II chair
the fore legs OF which are OF solid gold
y Michigan knitting mill * making
artificial silk from vegetable finer anG
converting it into hosiery and under
wear.
An electrical machine for cutting
umbrella covers in Il New York facto.
ry cuts 800 thirNngsses of fabric at
once.
AS much as $4,000 has been paid in
South Africa for male ostrich of a
good strain and producing exception
ally fine feathers.
DR.. e. IL. Sven of Washington pre-
diets that the woman of the future will
have thick neck. broad shoulders aud
other masculine features.
The Germans are doing Il great road
building work in Africa, and at no dis
tant date the possessions Of that coun
try in the dark continent will be in
touch with each other by motor routes
For cleaning floors New York in
ventOr has patented an electric ma
chine which applies water to floor
and scrubs it us it is pushed forward
and picks up the Soiled water as it is
drawn back.
In the stomach of Il crocodile which
was shot by Mr.. Wells on the Merguan
estate, Madras. were found python
thirteen feet long, two tobacco pipes,
number of pieces Of whisky bottles
and pair OF trousers.
Tan Teong. Il Chinaman residing in
Malay states, was recently fined f20.
with the alternative of three weeks
imprisonment, for selling his adopted
baby girl for E10 to buy a coffin in
which to bury his wife.
Exports of American pianos have
trebled in the last nine years. Amer
lean monographs are popular in all
parts of the world. In Mohammedan
countries monographs are used to re-
peat portions Of the Koran.
There is a good deal of vacuum clean
ing done in France by large machines
that go through the streets and clean
houses and apartments by hose reach
ing to any floor. The individual vac
uum cleaner is little known.
There is today in Paris a concierge
who. is reaping a small harvest of tips
from visitors to an attic which quar-
ter of century ago was tenanted by
the present king or Servia in the less
palmy days Of his pretendership.
An officer of the United States navy
has found that the power of high
speed vessels propeller is increased
about 10 per cent by placing ribs on
the faces of its blades to decrease the
partial vacuum that always occurs
there
have learned Il lesson from the l0otin@
of their shops during til" revolution
The entrance to each shop now is mar
row and the door made very hcnv!
and plated with iron. The smal! Stree'
windows are protected by iron bars.
Miss Mary Blake of London was re
Gently charged with "inSulting hehh-
viOr' in the Bow street court and tiAed
Is ito be of good behavior for siA
months" Her ofIenSe consisted of in
sisting upon remaining with woman
prisoner who was being tried by men
in a court full of men
A dog in Il bread pan. Il woman with
dirty fingers poking chocolate cakes, Il
woman clerk carrying Il half dressed
baby and waiting on customers with
her free arm were among the sights
that greeted the Chicago councils sub
committee on health recently on 4
bakeries inspection trip.
DR.. F. K. Bergius, the scientist who
has been conducting experiments IN
producing artificial coal. has by EN-
ploying Il high temperature and high
pressure changed celuIoSe to peat IN q
few hours. The same change by tht
process employed by nature, he states
required 100000 years.
Dr. Vincent Llorente. physician tC
the Spanish royal household, has re
turned home after completing two
months study of methods employed ii
American institutions for the deaf ant
dumb. He was sent here by the queer
of Spain to collect data regarding th'
education Of Miss Helen Keller.
One of the worlds great peppermint
farms, consisting Of 1,250 acres, is 10