Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-01-27
ROUND THE GLOBE

Many London women are now tax.
ing up pharmacy.
Trinity church, New York city, -
the richest In the world.
The coin collection Of the British
museum numbers $4,000 pieces.
A process has been discovered for con
verting oak wood to artificial ebony.
Mexico uses more cigarettes than
any other country in proportion to its
population.
Annapolis cadets have been ordered
to shun barber shops and to do their
own shaving.
The metric system Of weights and
measures is the only one legally rec
Ognized in Spain.
A French scientist urges putting
ones pillow under ones feet as a rem
edy for insomnia
Denmark has a law that prevents a
merchant from having more than two
clearing sales year.
Shoemaking is the leading industry
on the Balearic isles One factory
turns out 10000 pairs q year.
w. H. Osgood Of Field museum, Chi
cago, Is back from Peru with 1000
specimens of fauna for the institution.
About IS per cent Of the cultivated
acreage in British India is under rice
The average crop exceeds 23,O00,000
tons.
The Chicago police have equipped a
boat with submarine light to expe-
dite the recovery Of bodies Of drowned
persons.
Shoes made by a we'll known Chicago
firm are displayed in the shop win
dows Of Baku, on the shores Of the
Caspian sea.
A laboratory for the study Of canning
and preserving has been opened at San
Francisco by the United States bureau
Of chemistry.
Japan makes use of marine vegeta-
ton more than any other nation, much
Of its seaweed being manufactured into
edible gelatin.
The population Of Frankfort-on-the-
Main now exceeds 424,OOO OF the
city's twenty-four aldermen thirteen
are unsalaried.
This country last year imported
more than $2,S72OOO worth of Swiss
cheese, and the amount Is constantly
being increased.
The United States is now leading all
other countries In the use Of cocoa
and coffee. but ranks third In the con-
sumption Of tea.
Electrical apparatus which accurate
~ determines the range and tone Of
human voices has been invented by a
German woman.
Before fire brigade can start for a
fire in Berlin the members must all
fall in line In military fashion and sa
lutte their captain.
Natural gas production in the United
States now amounts to 100000, OOO, 600
cubic feet annually, valued in first
hands at $7O,OOO,OOO.
Ozone is now used to sterilize the
drinking water at st. Petersburg, for
merly a source Of epidemics yearly Of
cholera and typhoid fever.
For pumping heavy liquids a Welsh
inventor has designed combined pis-
ton and rotary pump, with no valves
that can be easily clogged.
But two-hundredths of an inch of
rain was measured at Greenwich OBJ
servatory in England in April, making
it the driest month recorded in q cen
fury.
Two English physicians are expert
menting with new parasite with
which they hope to exterminate the
flies Of their country in very few
years.
Portuguese East Africa contains the
following game in abundance: Buffalo.
crocodile, Gland, elephant, giraffe, gnu,
hartebeest, hippopOtamus, hyena, ko0-
doc, rhinoceros, antelope, waterbuck
and zebra.
Mickey Smith, basket maker and
cattle drover, died in the poorhouse at
Dunshaughlin, Ireland, recently at the
age Of 116. He drank heavily and
smoked constantly. He was married
three times.
1t is rumored that the French Com
pagnie Generate Transatlantique Is
studying the possibility Of making
Brest the home port Of its American
lines. Brest has perhaps the largest
natural harbor in Europe
One Of the unsolved problems con-
nected with ostrich breeding in South
Africa is the defective bar in so many
feathers which are otherwise compar-
atively perfect. These bars are not
found in wild bird feathers.
A stained glass window to the men,
DRY Of Izaak Walton. the 'cOmpleat
angler" is to be placed in Winchester
cathedral, where he was buried. 1t
has been decided to make special ap-
peal to fishermen for funds.
A pigeon recently flew from Niagara
Falls to New York city in six hours
and thirty-three minutes, or at the rate
of nearly seventy miles an hour. While
the aerOplane can beat this rate, 1t will
probably be some time before an avia-
tor equals this record for flight be-
tween the two places.
Sugar cane fiber, now largely waste
material, promises to become one of
the most valuable Of byproducts. 1t
has been practically demonstrated that
the fiber produces stronger paper
than any heretofore manufactured. It
can also be worked up into artificial
wood, celluloid, nitrocellulose and wax.
The great bulk of American exports
to Germany-just about three-fourths-
are classified as foodstuffs in crude