Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1913-02-22
ROUND THE GLOBE

Pittsburgh is soon 10 have a new
combined city hall and county court
house.
Callfornins 1913 mining output. II j.
predicted. will exceed $iOOOO.OD in
value.
During last year in the United States
Sia.wn.oO0 was spent fighting inbcr
culoSi>
Five hundred dollars was recently
paid for the good will of humble cot.
Zee stall In London.
Ia Newark. y j.. n lot ~ second
hand pianos We're nuctioncd the other
day ~ I7i. cents each.
Liverpool * to have the largest pipe
organ in the world IN It's cathedral II
will have 1856 pipes
The leakage. secpagc and eyapora
ton Of Lake Gatun are estimated ut
i.nl9l2o.00O gallons per day
With the stereotype. new keyboard
machine. dictaiion has been taken -
the rate Of So words minute.
The III newspapers published In
South Africa Civ. employment 10 1000
Europeans and $50 colorcd people
For advertising purposes n Pitts
bureh automobile delivery wagon IL
built on the lines of locomotive
Powerful scarchlishts are being in.
stalled on the ocean liners as protcc
ton against collision with icebcrgS
Pennsylvania produces nearly one
third Of the sand used in the manu-.
facture of glass in the United States
Turkish passenger boats in the Bos.
porlls during the last fiscal year ear.
ri.d i3.0oo.0OO passengers for $1,000.
90.
New York will have one ~ the
worlds greatest skylights IN it, new
pos,onice. MS il will contain ninety
tons Of glass.
Twenty-Five foot statues. weighing
twenty-five tons. carved ont ~ one
piece of marble. ARE 30 hc placed IN
front Of the Union station in Washing
ton.
4 New York hospital is experiment
ing with illuminating the floors al
rooms from beneath with electric
lamps set under glass and bac'.ed by
reflectors.
To blacken aluminium alloys. states
the Electrical Review. immersc the
article IN boiling hot solution Of caus-
tic soda Of - per cent strength for
few seconds wash on the excess ~
caustic dry in sawdust and polish with
n plumhagoed brush.
Americans are eating n great many
bananas. and the appetite for them Is
increasing More than G.WDo0o.WD ba-
nanas a year. or more than five dozen
for every man. woman and child in
the United States. including Alaska
and Hawaii. are consumed now.
ON account of the high duties im-
posed on most things In Brazil the cost
Of living is extremely high. AT Per
nambuco u house that In the United
States could he rented for $500 n year
costs at least Si.U1 Milk costs 90
cents = quart. bacon ~ cents a pound
and ham Sl.5O
OF the :;S.0OOUD tons of coal mined
IN France annually 23.nn.0o0 tons are
produced In the las de- Calais * this
coal * worth 81 4 ton nj the pin mouth.
besides attracting industries. these coal
mines are m enormous source 81
wealth. the value Of the annual output
hcing nearly Sl00n0ND.
IN Ingenious method 81 d>posln. ~
the ashes 81 4 cremaicd body has been
reported from England AFTER WON
an had been cremaicd the husband
took the ashes 10 Il chemist for the
purpose Of extracting the iron which
he Is now wearing set IN his ring. as
one would wear n diamond.
Recently twenty American engineers
and expert construction men sailed
from Galveston. Tex. for Barcelona
Spain. Ia begin contracts for power
plants and irrigation projects approNi
mating Slnu00o00. The principal part
Of the work will he in northeastern
Spain. where thousands ~ arid acres
will he irrigated
Greater New York for the year ended
Dee 81 last the death rate per LEGO
OF population went down 20 ii.1i per
cent as against l5.i5 per cent IN 1911.
l5.as in 1910 and III IN 1899 The
deaths showed n decrease ~ 2.ll5
over 1911 and ~ 1857 over the aver
age for ten years.
One If the most remarkable dnct
mcnis ever published 10y the govern
mcni is the ''elir.k list Just issued In
Washington Il records every pnhlica
iipn ~ The government from it, founda
ment down to and including i.na n
contains more than 1900 pages. and ap
proximatcly fifteen years were required
in its preparation,
fondon's old general rostofiice i he
lng torn down and within six months
will he no mere. II Was built between
.S2a and lsaa On the site Of ~" Old
church and sanctuary - - Martins
H. Grand Possessed - an imposing
Ionic p0rtic0 and supplied with great