Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1913-03-22
ROUND THE GLOBE

| South African natives are reported
adopting European clothing.
France Is talking OF taxing paintings
every time they change hands
Los Angeles now has six ciergymen
enrolled as special police officers.
\ herd of 3i5 buffaloes is thriving on
a l.6jO acre ranch near Pierre. 5. II.
The telegraphic rate from Picking TO
European capitals has dropped TO 81
cents a word
Manitoba has prohibited the sale OF
offensive weapons except under Ger
tain conditions.
Milwaukee working girls are organic
ing cooperative buying clubs to reduce
the cost OF living.
midas first shipment OF steel. made
few months ago. consisted of 500
tons II was sent TO Japan.
The material excavated from the
Panama canal would build a Chinese
wall from San Francisco TO New York.
Frances average annual catch on
the Newfoundland banks for the last
twenty years was ll9.U00.O00 pounds
Of fish
Al one place near Brussels there are
more than thousand hothouses.
which yield over $500 metric tons of
grapes annually.
Paper from which gas NANTES can
be made instead of using the more ex-
penSive fabrics has been invented by
an Italian scientist
Kerosene oil is now consumed by the
world 10 the extent OF 100000 gal
ions daily The United States output
in 1912 was 220.000.0o0 gallons.
a statue Of Carl Schurz is TO be
erected in the neighborhood OF Colum.
bia university 10y II committee OF
which Joseph II. Choate is chairman.
Or II : Frost. superintendent OF
Bostons hospital for the insane. re-
ports great success in the use Of warm
water baths in calming violent pa
tents
Dr Albert Abrams of San Francisco
predicts the early disappearance of sur.
gerry rs u remedy for appendicitis He
says massage treatment will dis.
place t.
Meat inspectors in Berlin are employ
Ing the moving picture camera In their
work. enlarged photographs showing
micro organisms IN motion II the meat
is diseased.
The last two swans have disappeared
from the octagonaI basin In the .Jardin
DIES Tuleries. Paris They were an
exemplary couple The male died of
rheumatism and his widow of grief.
Under the new Australian electoral
act all newspaper articles and reports
during the currency OF nm election must
have the names and addresses Of the
writer's appended The penalty for nm
unfair or incorrect report Is $500
The old Catholic cathedral OF st
Peter and 81. Paul Is to he torn down
In -. Paul and is TO be replaced by
department store structure 10 cost
SsOo.000 Archbishop ireland was or
dained priest in the old building.
Nearly 600 English wild song birds
are soon to be dispatched TO British
Columbia. song birds being rare In
Canada. The 900 birds is the first i'm
portation experiment being conducted
by the Naturalists' club OF Victoria.
b. C
One of the war correspondents sent
to the Balkans was forced TO ride In
fourth class car on the way 10 Bel
grade ON board was this notice:
Passengers are warned that they must
not scratch the window panes with
diamonds
Colonel TeySsIer. French soldier,
who has just received the grand cross
Of the Legion Of Honor. was comman
dant OF the fortress OF Ritche. which
held out against the PrussianS from
Aug. 5. 1870. until March -. ISL Tie
Is now uinety-two years of age
Fully 10000 persons will be evicted
from their homes by the project &c
raze the Notifications OF Paris The,
order municipal improvements In the
French capital with wholesale dis
regard uf Individual Inconvenience
which goes to explain why Paris is thu
beautiful city II is.
Amnndsens proposed north polar
journey has been postponed for yeni
az the suggestion OF the Norwegian
government. seconded by Professor
hansen. in order to give the stan NOR,
time for thorough trimming in oceanog
raphy. the subject 10 which the expe
dition will devote principal attention.
An illiterate in the eyes Of the United
States census bureau Is person Of ten
years or over who cannot write regard
less of his or her ability to read .Iuds-
ed by this standard. illiteracy IN this
country has decreased In the last dec
AIDE from 1911 10 10 per cent Among
children from ten TO. fourteen years OLD
only n fraction above four 10 the hun