The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1913-03-14
ROUND THE WORLD

ny.
A tablet weighing four ounces com
prses an entire meal in the Cnitec
States a.rnys newest emergency ra
ton.
Every year G.OOO,OOO pounds of con
densed milk and 100000 pounds OF
biscuits are sent to China from Eng
land
The British army costs per man more
than twice rs much as the most ex
pensive compulsory service army II
Europe.
Within ten years twenty-five square
miles of land around New York hav.
been reclaimed by being filled In Will
coal ashes gathered in the city.
"Education. detection. CONTROL"
should lie the watchwords OF the cam
paiyn against tuberculosis. according
to the Chicago tuberculosis institute.
Primarily for the use of invalids IL
a chair invented by Il Tennesseean. sc
equipped with mirrors that an occu
pant can see what is going on around
him without rising.
The supreme court Of Leipzig has de
cided in the case Of waitress who
was dismissed for flirting with custom
ers that flirting was not criminal ant
was necessary for waitress.
The education conference in Picking
has resolved to establish In the next
three years further universities III
Canton, Wuchang and Marking. In al
dition to the existing one at Picking.
The largest destroyer in the worI6
was recently put atloat at Cowes She
is called the Tome. Her displacement
is 1850 tons. She has been built fol-
Chile. and mounts six four-inch guns
With the completion Of the Panama
canal Japanese steamships will prob
ably for the first time ply on the At
lantic seaboard. particularly in con
nection with the extensive raw cotton
freight traffic.
Thirty-tivc young girls at Albacete
young men who prior to their twenty
eighth birthday have not given proof
of their prowess in the bull ring as
amateur torcadors.
A process for making alcohol from
the waste parts OF henequen plants has
been discovered In iucatan, and IT l.
believed that the new industry viii
add considerably to the already large
income nccrring from that plant.
Out Of approximately $500 students
listed in the college catalogue at tlar'
ward fifty bear the name Of Smith
The Browns are a poor second. with
twenty four representatives. but are
tied with the members of the Davis
family
All our coffee must be purchased
outside Of this country. but this does
not deter the American public from
using S7OOOO.OOO pounds OF 1t every
year. or nine and one-fourth pounds foi
each man. woman and child In the
country.
Mime. MathiIde David. Paris shop
keeper. who set herself on fire after
saturating her clothes with petrol. stat
ed in a letter that she had chosen the
most painful death she conld think OF
to punish herself for having vexed he'
dead husband during his life.
Large districts in the far east for
merly planted in tapioca are now he
ing planted in rubber trees. and as a
consequence no lower prices for tapi,
oca are looked for. Land for tapioca
growing can he used only one-fourth
of the time and must he left idle for
the remainder.
Constantinople' principal department
stores are run on the same lines as
the stores in New York or Chicago.
They do a great deal Of window dress
ing and interior decorating. Advertise
ments are run in French. Turkish ana
Greek newspapers. and they have spe
cial bargain days.
In Rome. Ga.. the percentage Of old
men. hale and sturdy. who are making
living without assistance is large.
More than fifty men beyond the age of
seventy-solne are nearer eighty-nre
caring for themselves, earning sutti-
cient for their needs. Most Of them
served four years in the southern army.
Two thousand three hundred love
letters. dating from the year 1880 on
ward, arranged in bundles Of fifty.
tied with jeweied silver chains and
written by six different girls. We're
found preserved in IN ivory casket In
the bedroom OF Il lonely bachelor who
has just died ut Melbourne ut the age
OF eighty-two
The Suez canal. according to Ship
ping Illustrated. is owned 10y a private
company. the Gle Universelle du ca.
nal Maritime de Suez. Its president
secretary, manager and a majority Of
it's directors are French. Great Britain.
1t is stated. has never interfered In the
management OF this company. nor has
the French government
Norway intends to celebrate the cen.
tenary of the adoption Of a constitution
on May II. 1914, by holding a national
exposition at Christiania. May Is To
Sept. 30 or possibly as late as Oct Is,
1914 If was first Intended tn hold in