The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-04-11
THE GLOBE

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The lack Of a sufficient supply Of coal
10 keenly felt throughout Russia.
Pittsburgh is soon to have a new
combined city hall and county court
house.
California's 1913 mining output, it Is
predicted. will exceed 900 in
value. g.
During last year in the United States
$40, 600 was spent fighting tuber-
culOsis.
Five hundred dollars was recently
paid for the good will Of a humble COT
fee stall in London.
In Newark, n. j., a lot of second
hand pianos We're auctioned the other
day at AN cents each.
Liverpool is to have the largest pipe
organ in the world in it's cathedral. 1t
will have 1O,567 pipes.
The leakage, seepage and evapora-
ton of Lake Gatun are estimated at
1~.O59.42O.OOO gallons per day.
With the stereotype, a new keyboard
machine, dictation has been taken at
the rate Of 592 words a minute.
The 247 newspapers published In
South Africa give employment to 1000
Europeans and $50 colored people.
For advertising purposes a Pitts
burgh AUTOMOBILE. delivery wagon is
built on the lines Of a locomotive.
Powerful searchlights are being in
stalled on the ocean liners as q prOtec.
ton against collision with icebergs.
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-
porus during the last fiscal year car
ried 100000 passengers for $1,000
600.
New York will have n Of the
worlds greatest skylights in its new
postofice, as 1t will contain ninety
tons Of glass.
Twenty-Five foot statues, weighing
twenty-five tons, carved out of one
piece of marble, are to be placed in
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 80 per cent strength for a
few seconds: wash of the excess Of
caustic, dry in sawdust and polish with
a ,plumbagoed brush.
Americans are eating a great many
bananas, and the appetite for them is
increasing. More than 5000. 600, 900 ba-
nanas q 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 q house that in the United
States could be rented for $3.50 a year
costs at least $1,000. Milk costs 20
cents a quart, bacon G. cents a pound
and ham $3.50.
OF the 38.OOO.OOO tons Of coal mined
in France annually 2 ,OOO,OOO 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 $100.O00.OOO.
An ingenious method of disposing Of
the ashes of a cremated body has been
reported from England. After a wom-
an had been cfetnated the husband
took the ashes to a chemist for the
purpose of extracting the iron. which
he is now wearing set in his ring. az
one would veal a diamond.
Recently twenty American engineers
and expert construction men sailed
from Galveston. Tex. for Barcelona,
Spain, to begin contracts for power
plants and irrigation projects approx
mating $40,OOO.OOO. The principal part
Of the work will be In northeastern
Spain, where thousands Of arid acres
will be irrigated.
With 7s.00s deaths reported in
0ESdI6I GSSW 4OEA 4OG IuO yeUI SuVGO
i Dec. 81 last the death rate per 1000
Of population went down to 14.11 per
cent az against 1915 per cent In 1911.
| 1898 In 1910 and 18 In 1909. The
deaths showed a decrease Of 2.415
over 1911 and Of 1857 ovsr the aver
age for ten years.
One OF the most remarkable docu-
ments ever published BY the govern.
ment IL the 'check list" Just issued In
Washington. It records every publica-
ton Of the government fromtits founda-
ment down to and including 1908. It
contains more than 1900 pages. and ap-
proximately fifteen years were required
In its preparation.
Loadon's old general postomce 10 be-
ing torn down and within six months
will be no more. It was built between
1925 and 1920 on the site Of the old
church and sanctuary Of ct. Martins
IL. Grand. Possessed Of an imposing
Ionic portico and supplied with Z sreat
clock. the general postofnce was q 1ne
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