The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-02-20
ROUND the WORLD

There are forty-two triplets living in
Ohio.
Wages in Belgium are lower general.
" than in any other European coun.
try
A tablet weighing four ounces COM
prises an entire meal in the United
States army's newest emergency fra-
ton.
Every year 6.OOO.OOO pounds of con-
densed milk and 5.OOOOOO pounds OF
biscuits are sent to China from Eng
land.
The British army costs per man more
than twice us much as the most ex-
pensive compulsory service army in
Europe.
Within ten years twenty-five square
miles Of land around New York have
been reclaimed by being filled in with
coal ashes gathered in the city.
Education. detection. control"
should be the watchwords of the cam
paign against tuberculosis. according
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chair invented by Tennesseean, 20
equipped with mirrors that an occu-
pant can ace what II going on around
him without rising.
The supreme court Of Leipzig has de-
cided in the case Of Q waitress who
was dismissed for drifting with custom
efs that drifting was not criminal and
was necessary for . waitress.
The education conference IN Psking
has resolved to establish In the next
three years further universities IN
Canton. Wuchang and Marking, in i'd
dition to the existing one at Peking.
The largest destroyer In the world
was recently put ahoat at Cowes. She
ls called the Tome Her displacement
II 1850 tons. She has been built for
Chile. and mounts six four-inch guns.
With the completion Of the Panama
canal Japanese steamships will prob
ably for the first time ply on the At
lantic seaboard. particularly in con-
nection with the extensive raw cotton
freight traffic.
Thirty-tive young girls at Albacete.
young men who prior to their twenty
eighth birthday have not given proof
Of their prowess In the bull ring as
amateur toreadors.
A process for making alcohol from
the waste parts of henequen plants has
been discovered In Yucatan, and 1t Is
believed that the new industry will
add considerably to the already large
income accruing from that plant
Out Of approximately $500 students
listed in the college catalogue at Har-
ward nfty bear the name Of Smith.
The Browns are a poor second, with
tWenty-four representatives, but are
tied with the members Of the Davis
family.
All our coffee must be purchased
outside Of this country. but this does
not deter the American public from
using 87OOOO.OOO pounds Of 1t every
year. or nine and one fourth pounds for
each man. woman and child in the
country.
Nine. Mathilde David, Paris shop
keeper, who set herself on fire after
saturating her clothes with petrol, stat
Cd In a letter that she had chosen the
most painful death she could think of
10 punish herself for having vexed her
dead husband during his life.
Large districts In the far east for
merly planted In tapioca are now be-
ing planted in rubber trees, and as
consequence no lower prices for tapi-
oca are looked for. Land for tapioca
growing can be used only one fourth
Of the time and must be left idle for
the remainder
Constantinople's principal department
stores are run on the same lines as
the stores In New York or Chicago
They do great deal Of window dress
ing and interior decorating. Advertise
ments are run In French, Turkish and
Greek newspapers. and they have spe-
cial bargain days.
In Rome. Ga. the percentage Of old
men, hale and sturdy. who are making
living without assistance is large.
More than fifty men beyond the age Of
seventy some are nearer eighty-are
caring for themselves, earning sum
cient for their needs. Most Of them
served four years in the southern army
Two thousand three hundred love
letters, dating from the year 1899 on
ward, arranged in bundles Of City,
tied with jeweled silver chains and
written by six different girls. were
found preserved in an ivory casket in
the bedroom OF a lonely bachelor who
has just died at Melbourne at the age
Of eighty-twO.
The Suez canal. according to Ship
ping Illustrated. is owned by private
company. the Gle Universel.e du ca
nal Maritime de Suez. It's president.
secretary. manager and a majority Of
Its directors are French. Great Britain,
It is stated. has never interfered In the
management of this company. nor has