The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-15
ROUND THE WORLD

Morocco is soon to have roads, har
bors and lighthouses.
Baltimore is planning a, belt line rail
road around its basin harbor.
Los Angeles now has six clergymen
enrolled as special police officers.
Chicago fortune tellers are said to
have a secret union and scale Of prices
Brand Whitlock of Toledo says he
thinks Glasgow the best governed city
in Europe.
St Louis Is to have a church with a
roof garden and moving picture show
attachments.
New York defended damage suits in
1912 calling for $4,3sOO00 and only
paid out $65 900 to claimants.
The United States secret service
agents arrest on an average 400 per-
sons annually for counterfeiting.
With room for more than 200 cars.
Denver claims to have the largest eI-
elusive electric garage in the world
The number Of working hours has
been reduced legally in Switzerland
from sixty hours week to fifty-6ve.
An artificial leather for electricians
gloves that resists dangerous currents
almost as well as rubber has been In
vented
More than half the desks and tables
in the primary schools Of the Philip
pine Islands were made by the pupils
themselves.
Germany has society for the elu.
cidation of the divining rod. with a
number Of prominent scientific men
as members.
Agricultural education will form an
important section of the international
congress of agriculture at Client. Bel
GUM, in June.
A swinging seat invented for the
use Of the locomotive engineer offers
back rest, Of which he has been
heretofore deprived.
An English company plans the estab-
hshment in the Philippines Of a cocoa
nut oil mill with u monthly capacity
of over 100000 nuts.
The Belgian government makes an
annual appropriation Of $4,000 for
the maintenance of botanical garden
at Eala. in the KOngo.
The old cathedral of st. Louis at
New Orleans has been closed as I'M
safe, owing to the sinking OF the east
wall. 1t was built In 1921.
Experiments are being made in Cal
ifornia to Use frosted citrus fruits and
Gull fruit for making denatured alcO-
hol for industrial purposes.
A concrete bungalow has been de-
signed for shipment In parts, which
may be assembled or taken apart and
shipped as often as desired.
Alaskan natives read American mag
azines. The United States bureau of
education every year ships a number
of current periodicals to the native
schools.
Motorcars for laborers have almost
entirely displaced hand cars on rail-
roads. They are economical because
they deliver the men at the place Of
operation in good condition,
Every year on the anniversary of his
marriage Professor Palmer of Harvard
gives something to Wellesley in mem.
ory Of his wife. Alice Freeman Palmer,
who was president of Wellesley.
The smoking of hams, frankfurters
and the like is accomplished by one
meat concern in Baltimore in a smoke
house heated by gas, which is said ia
be new departure In the curing OF
meats.
DR.. Rigler Of the University Of
Klausenburg, Austria, has produced 8
synthetic milk from grain by ma
chine Of simple construction. The
product is said to equal in quality the
best cows milk.
Bilibid prison, at Manila, was the
scene recently OF the production of a
play written, staged and acted by pris
oners, in theater specially built by
prisoners and before an audience com
posed Of prisoners.
The wool produced in China is nearly
all carpet wool. from the plains of Mon
golia, and most of 1t is exported to the
United States. The Chinese have no
idea Of fine qualities of wool because
they have never seen 1t.
Are shorthand writing and note tax
ing doomed In courts Of justice? An
Australian judge has just declared, 81
believe the day is not distant when
the phonograph will be regularly used
to take down evidence"
The Odd Fellows have larger mem
bership than any other fraternal or
ganization in the world, leading with
1862, 800. with Freemasons and Mod
ern WOOdmen OF the World close
second and third respectively.
Tied with jeweled silver chains in
bundles Of fifty and lying in an ivory
oasket, 1900 love letters written by sil
different girls were found in room oil
q bachelor who died recently in Mel
bourne at the age of eighty-two.
The California state legislature has
adopted resolution favoring federal
aid for industrial education and urg
ing the establishment of q national