The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-08-08
ROUND THE WORLD

American CASTLE soap Ii sold extern
sively In Havre, France.
Switzerland now owns the st. Go
thard tunnel and railway.
Applications for patents in Great
Britain last year numbered 30,0S9.
Montreal police authorities favor the
proposal to add several policewomen
to the force.
Australia's public debt now stands at
s., $50, 039. 900. The annual interest bill
reaches $47.4s5.1 $50.
The coal handling machinery for the
Panama canal coaling stations will be
operated by electricity. /.
The output Of phosphate rock in
Florida In 1912 was 2,579, S65 long tons,
an increase of S5.293 tons over 1911
production.
Germany uses $4,000 tons Of Amer
lean lubricating oils annually. Its to-
tai consumption Of such oils reaches
$4,000 tons.
The elevators Of Manhattan carry
100000 passengers every day, yet
they killed only thirty-eight people
in ten years.
The city Of Bergen, has the largest
merchant feet In Norway and has ves-
sells engaged In time charter In every
part Of the world.
The shoe product Of the United
States exceeds that Of England. Ger
many, France and Italy. with few
more countries thrown in.
Russia has under consideration four
competing projects for the construc-
ton Of the White Sea railway from the
city Of Archangei to western Siberia.
During last year 41.620 books were
published In japan, while Germany,
the most bookish Of European nations,
had only 81 ,2S1 volumes to her credit.
There are PAT newspapers published
in South Africa. in which $780, 900 Is
invested. They give employment to
1000 Europeans and $50 colored people.
Within the last thirty years the popu-
lation Of Jerusalem has Increased great
Iy. 1t included in 1880 only 10000
Jews, whereas In the present popula-
ton Of over $4,000 there are no less
than $4,000 Jews.
The second wedding Of the thirteen
year-Oid daughter Of Haricharan Chak-
abarty, the first Hindu widow who
has ever remarked, took place at Chit
TAGGING, India. Her first husband died
when she was six years old.
For quickly raising to the surface
Of the water q disabled submarine an
Englishman has invented a buoy to
be released from the boat carrying
up hose through which air can be
pumped to fill and lift the craft.
The fresh water lakes In the central
part Of Tasmania have been particular
" suited to the American sebago, or
nonseagoing variety Of salmon. A
growth from two ounces to four pounds
In twenty-one months has been noted.
If an English engineers plan to run
an electric railroad up the side Of
Mount Popocatapetl. In Mexico. be car
ried out, passengers will experience
q change in temperature from 70 de-
gress above zero to 10 below within
two hours.
The Chinese have invented q new
character or sign for empire" A
square with the sign Of king inside
was their old character or sign for
Kingdom" but now ''empire" Is rep
resented by a square with the sign Of
people inside.
Although banana raising II not very
profitable in Cuba because Of cost of
mule back transportation, planting
goes on briskly, partly because the
farmer needs the banana trees to give
the necessary shade to his young coffee
and cacao trees.
DR.. Henry Nachtel, founder Of the
New York night medical service. has
lust received from the French min
lister of war the military medal Of the
Franco German war Of 1870. in which
he served as assistant surgeon major
attached to the northern army.
There is a steady decrease in silk
cocoons in France. The large bounty
paid by the government to foster the
Industry has not been sufficient to raise
the average. France may send COM
mission to Japan to study the silk
growing conditions there, as the Jap
anese silk crop increases every year.
Russia's department of agriculture
has prepared law prohibiting the
culture Of the poppy in the Trans
baikal, Amur and Maritime Provinces
The cultivation Of the plant is to be
4 criminal offense. a. will be also the
smoking of opium or the storing or
purchasing 1t, and the purchase OF
utensils for smoking opium.
Letter boxes are used on suburban
street cars In three American cities
Des Moines. Ia, Burlington. Ia. and
Grand Rapids. Mich. This gives the
suburban residents chance to send
mail to the postoffice every hour. II
the car Is signaled for the purpose
Df putting mail in the box. the sender
b required to pay the conductor the
minimum carfare.
Julio Lecaros y Navas, now In Lima.
Peru. on a tour Of South America col
tecting data regarding the old Spanish
families. is director Of the Heraldic
academy Of Madrid. He will also
study and investigate for the Orden
Militar Hospitaliario de San Juan de
Acro an order that dates back to the