Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-03-04
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HES monthly.
An Atlantic fog is usually about tiiir-
ty miles in diameter
The lack of Il sufficient supply of coal
is !:eenlv fe.t throughout Russia.
Pittsburgh is soon to have a new
combined city hail and county couit-
house
CALIFORNIA; 1913 mining output, it is
predicted. will exceed $100.OOO.OOC in
value.
During last year in the United States
$19,00O.00O was spent fighting tuber-
culosis.
Five hundred dollars was recently
paid for the good will of humble ccf-
fee stall in London.
In Newark. n. j., lot of second
hand pianos We're auctioned the other
day mt 47l2 cents each.
Liverpool is to have the largest pipe
organ in the world in its cathedral. 1t
will have lO.567 pipes
The leakage, seepage and evapora-
zion of Lake Gatun are estimated at
1.O59,420.0O0 gallons per day.
With the stereotype. Il new keyboard
machine. dictation has been taken at
the rate of 592 words a minute,
The 241 newspapers published in
South Africa give employment to 1000
Europeans and $50 cOlored people.
For advertising purposes Pitts
uurgh automobile delivery wagon is
built on the lines of locomotive.
Powerful searchlights are being in
stalled on the ocean liners as prOtec.
ton against collision with icebergs.
Pennsylvania produces nearly one
third of the sand used in the manu-
fncture of glass in the United States.
Turkish passenger boats in the Bos-
norus during the last fiscal year car
"ed 100000 passengers for $1,000
900.
New York will have one of the
worlds greatest skylights in its new
postoflice, us it will contain ninety
tons of glass.
Twenty-Five foot statues, weighing
twenty-five tons, carved out of one
front of the Union station in Washing
ton.
A New York hospital is experiment
ing with Illuminating the floors of
rooms from beneath with electric
lamps set under glass and backed by
refectOrs.
To blacken aluminium alloys, states
the Electrical Review. immense the
article In a boiling hot solution of caus-
tic soda Of 30 per cent strength for
few seconds: wash off the excess Of
caustic, dry in sawdust and polish with
plumbagoed BRUSH
Americans are eating a great many
bananas, and the appetite for them is
increasing More than 100000 ba-
nanaS Il 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 i'm
posed on most things in Brazil the cost
of living is extremely high. At Per-
nambuco house that in the United
States could be rented for $3.50 year
costs at least $1,000. Milk costs 20
cents quart, bacon GO cents a pound
and ham $1.5O.
OF the 3S,OOO.OOO tons of coal mined
in France annually 23.OOO.O0O tons are
produced in the Pas de Calais. AS this
coal is worth 81 a ton at the pit mouth
besides attracting Industries. these coal
mines are an enormous source of
wealth. the value of the annual output
being nearly $10O.OOO.OOO.
An ingenious method of disposng of
the ashes of cremated body has been
reported from England. After a wonf-
an had been cremated the husband
took the ashes to a chemist for the
purpose of extracting the iron. which
he Is now wearing set in his ring, as
one would wear a diamond.
Recently twenty American engineers
and expert construction men sailed
from Galveston. Tex for Barcelona,
Spnin, to begin coIrtracts for power
plants and irrigation projects approx
mating $4O,OO0.OOO. TIE principal part
of the work will be in northeastern
will be irrigated.
With 73.OOS deaths reported in
Greater New York for the year ended
Dec 81 last the death rate per 1000
Of population went down to AL per
cent as against 1915 per cent In 1911.
1888 in 1910 and 16 in 1909. The
deaths showed a decrease Of 2,415
over 1911 and of 1851 over the aver
age for ten years.
One Of the most remarkable docu-
ments ever published by the govern
ment IS the "check list" just issued in
Washington. 1t records every publica-
ton Of the government from its founda-
ment down to and including 1909. It
contains more than 1.5OO pages. and ap-
proximmtely fifteen years We're required
in it's preparation.
London's old general pOstoffice is be-
ing torn down and within six months
viii be no more. 1t was built between
1929 and 1929 on the site Of the old
church and sanctuary Of st. Martins
lie Grand. Possessed of an imposing
Ionic portico and supplied with great
clock. the general poStotlice was fine
structure. but it was not large enough
to accommodate the vast machinery Of
the central Office.
The largest telescope in South Amer.
lea is to be set up at Cordova, Argen-
tina. by the government of that repub-
lie. The telescope. which will be con-
structed in Cambridge. Mass, is ex-
pected to extend the researches in the
southern heavens. begun many years