Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-08-07

annuM. Inc average now Is betWeen
5000 and 1000 tons.
Japan is buying a steadily increasing
amount of foreign machinery and en-
gines, the total purchases for 1912 ag-
gregating $14,175,6S9.
1t is estimated that, as a consequence
of the war, Macedonia has lost 100000
Of her population through death, emf
grafton and otherwise.
German builders have announced
that they will place on the market an
oil burning engine Of the marine type
that will develop 1000 horsepower with
a single cylinder.
When the water power of Great lake,
in the center Of the island Of Tas-
mania, is harnessed to electric gen.
orators the island will be almost COM
pletely electrified.
BY the use of devices that retard the
draft Of heating tubes of their boilers
two German Transatlantic liners have
saved 10 per cent in fuel without i'm
pairing their required speed.
The usual cost of labor in railway
construction work in Portugal is about
as follows: Laborers, Al cents a day;
masons. IS cents; stone workers and
carpenters, "a cents; bosses, $1.41.
The French postal authorities are ex-
perimenting with American automatic
and semiautomatic telephones in two
cities with a view to their general in
PRODUCTION into Paris if satisfactory.
The Germans know how to make for
estry profitable. The receipts from the
Bavarian state forests, for example.
were $14,573,5S7 in 1912, of which
$7,4333,1 1913 was in excess Of expenses.
One bride in ten in California is q
divorce. Statistics compiled by State
Statistician Leslie show hat the total
number of brides in 1912 was 31,276.
| OF this number 1904 were Divorces.
Thirty-two years ago women were
admitted to the Massachusetts bar to
practice as lawyers on an equality
with men. Today Of the $500 lawyers
in the Boston directory only sixty are
women.
In China a reaction has set in, and it
is reporter that 60 per cent of those
who adopted foreign dress last year
have gone back to native clothing, the
| result being a rise of 20 per cent in the
! price of silk.
I Panama is more healthful than ever.
The last report by Colonel Gorgas
shows that the average death rate
among employees for 1912 was only
ia per thousand as against 1912 in
1911 and 1913 in 1905.
American sewing machines are very
popular at .Jibuti. French Somaliland,
Africa. The American machines sell
there for prices ranging between $23
and $43. There is no complaint against
high prices. as the tailoring class is ap-
parently prosperous.
Salt Is evaporated from ocean brine
at Alden, the production last year being
estimated at 1O5. 900 tons. Probably
$50 tons are consumed in Alden and
1000 tons sent into the hinterland.
while still larger quantities go to In
dia as ballast for ships.
The increasing popularity of dog
meat as Il table delicacy among the
poor of Berlin is no better shown than
by the recent decision to erect an abat-
toir for dogs. This decision was taken
after the city officials had received re-
ports on the consumption of dog meat
in the capital which showed that such
an abattoir was necessary.
The harbor of Reykjavik. in Iceland.
is to have a railway built about it so
as to facilitate the transport Of freight
and ease the congestion due to old
fashioned methods. The enterprise is
small to begin with, but 1t is thought
that once an opening is made on the
island a railway running across to
Thingvalla will be built.
Japan has finally decided, after ex-
periments extending over some years.
to put beef on the daily diet of her
navy. The reason is that the men in
those ships where beef has been given
daily have an advantage in height Of
nearly three-Quarters of an inch owe
the average Japanese peasant. to whom
meat is an unknown food.
Charles NJ. Galloway. succeeding
General John c. Black as president Of
the United States civil service commits
sion, has been clerk to the senate com
mittee on immigration. General Black
became president OF the commission in
1904. Prior to that time he had been
pension commissioner under President
Cleveland and a Democratic member
Of congress from Illinois. He has
been commander in chief of the Grand
Army OF the Republic.