The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-10-03

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high advertising the city.
Australians new nickel coins will
have scalloped edges to prevent their
being mistaken for silver money.
Since 1920 nearly 31,000,O0O immi
grants have landed in United Statet
ports In the past year 1,197.S92 came
In British Arabia Il native labOrer
earns from - to is cents day, OF
which he supports himself and his
family.
Venice is wrestling with the peculiar
problem of a rapidly increasing popu-
Iation without being able to enlarge
the city.
The new Chinese department of ag-
ricuIture and forestry is very largely
manned by Chinese graduates of the
colleges of this country.
\ red cross sign made of glass, which
can be Illuminated from within by an
incandescent lamp, has been invented
for physicians automobiles
Plans for the foundation of a new
hospital at Parel, a suburb of Bombay,
as a memorial of the late King Ed
ward. are now being framed
BY breeding blind fish found in dark
caves under red light for several years
a German scientist has succeeded in
producing fish with useful eyes.
1t is estimated that $1O,O00,000 in
gold is burned annually in China.
where certain anniversaries are OBJ
served by the destruction of piece of
gold leaf.
In the United States, in every bust
ness day of the year, $1,O00,OOO worth
of property is destroyed, three lives
are lost and seventeen persons serious
ly injured by fire.
TAe entire street railway system of
IL - IL .t.'Stralia was tied up when
I.'t tnr't.t escaped from its home and
d. "a il chain across two wires,
.t;'. ii.s ,-"urt circuit.
Ihn;o. TapherS now receive light very
similar 10 that through the traditional
studio skylight by vapOr tube electric
lamps filled with carbon dioxide in
stead of mercury vapOr.
The town planning development at
Southend Londons new suburb. for
ty miles due east. on the English chan
mel, is converting that part of the coast
into a model garden city.
Resembling pruning knife. but with
a heavier insulated handle, is tool in
vented by a Californian for removing
insulation from. electric wires without
danger of shock to a user.
In Naples motor trucks are still used
very little, partly because of conser-
vatism and partly because of the
rough street paving of large lava
blocks, which is hard on all kinds of
vehicles.
Henry Hittson. aged eleven months,
of Fort Worth, Tex. probably holds
the worlds record for living grandpar-
ents. of whom he has seven. He has
four Observation-Disclosures, but none of
his great-grandfather is living.
The HARLEM (HOIlandl General So
ciety For Bulb Culture offers prize
of 1000 forms for the best bulb dig
ging machine. At present bulbs are
scooped out of the ground with the
hands-a slow and laboriOus process.
Because he never missed writing a
letter to his mother each week of the
fifteen years he has been in America
J. w Gordon. Il tailor of East st. Lou
is. is heir to 100000 left by his bach
elor uncle, l.. Liebowitz of Libau. Kuh-
land. Russia.
The famous old yacht America.
which won the Queens cup in the
races between the American and Eng
lish yachts over half a century ago. is
now owned by Butler Ames of Massa-
chusetts. Occasionally the yacht is
taken out for short cruise.
A man in New York has been arrest
ed and sentenced to eleven months in
prison for the crime of stealing baby
carriages. 1t seems not to have been
a pastime with him. but a business.
and he admitted that he had been en-
gagged in it for twenty-five years.
Boys in a fresh air school in Buffalo
prune the orchard trees on the school
grounds, grow catalpa trees for future
transpIanting. study bird whistles and
notes as they hear them in the orchard
and incidentally acquire a valuable in
sight into the main principles of fores-
try.
The unrestricted use of machine
boats by Greeks in the waters of Trip
oil has greatly damaged the normal in
crease of sponges. The Italian govern
ment has now begun to discourage the
Greeks, and it is likely that ere long
Milan will be the center of the trade
in Tripoli sponges.
Notwithstanding an ever increasing
production, there has been progress
sively higher average price obtained
for rough diamonds, with the eXcep
ton of fluctuations during certain pc
RODS of depression. and during the
last twenty years diamonds have in
y creased in value by 80 per cent
America is at present the largest buy
er of South African diamonds and
also. for boring and industrial pur
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