The Washburn leader., 1913-04-11
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The name Montenegro means .Black
Mountain"
Constantinople has up to date depart
ment stores.
Grape growing In the United States
is on the increase.
Doctors are aiding the anti-noise cru
sade in Baltimore.
There is little or no begging in north
ern Italy. yet It is very prevalent in
Naples.
A Partisan chemist has invented dyes
said to make dresses change color
hourly.
Barely one-seventh of the population
of the British empire is composed of
white men.
German manufacturers have COM
! bined to avoid the manufacture of
''freak" shoes. .,.
Seventy y-eight per cent of the popula-
ton Of England and Wales is to be
found living in towns.
Photographers in Lyons, France. now
take instantaneous pictures in colors by
the use of dashlight powders.
The German government is granting
special freight rates on foodstuffs to al
leviate the present high prices.
The triple alliance" is the name
given to the understanding between
Germany. Austria and Italy. adopted
in 1888.
The territory of Papua is depend
ency Of Australia. Papua contains
some of the few blank spaces still left
upon the map.
The report Of the census bureau
shows that there are in the United
States no less than 13.345545 persons
Of foreign birth.
Great Britain carries on more trade
with Germany than with any other
country. France and the United States
are her next best customers.
An ice breaking steamer built in Swe-
den for the Russian government has
successfully cut its way through ice
fields thirty feet thick with only half
its normal power.
The fishing industry is in It's infancy
in Chill. being carried on principally
by groups of two or three men who
fish from small boats and sell the catch
at absurdly high prices.
The president Of the Bank Of Italy
estimates that some 100000 foreigners
visit Italy annually. The average So
journ of each is about thirty days and
the daily expenditure nearly $14.
Mexicans are naturally given to
graphic representations and novelty
hence the motion picture theater occu-
public entertainments in some districts.
Boys just out Of school are trained
BY the London county council to be-
come chefs and walters. Not long ago
a luncheon to 100 visitors was both
cooked and served by the boys who
are being 80 trained.
The Dixie club Of the University Of
Wisconsin, which is composed of stu
dents whose homes are below the once
famous Mason and Dixon's line. has
decided to admit women students who
are eligible for membership.
Germany. according to the religious
statistics Of the empire, has IN increas-
ing number Of persons without any re-
ligious profession. At least they are
80 registered. The number has grown
from 1900 in 1907 to nearly 100000.
Nearly one-ninth Of the population
Of the United States consists Of ne
groes. Of whom there are 100000.
OF this number S.740.390 make their
homes In the southern states. and 50
per cent Of them live in the country
districts or in the small towns.
Instruction In elementary utntng 10
recommended by the British board ofs
education for schools in mining dis!
tricts. It Ia suggested that such ins+
struction can be most effectively given
not in separate and detached lessons.
but In connection with the regular
school subjects.
Hudson Maxim claims that forty
foot wooden motorb0at armed with q
single three inch gun would today be
able to attack and destroy the Monitor
That shows the great advance. in the
construction Of guns and marine en-
gines since the Monitor was built,
half century ago.
Buying and selling pictures when
conducted by experts frequently yields
large profits. In case recently heard
at the London law courts Il was stated
that Sir George Donaldson bought
seascape BY Turner for $4,000 and sold
Il for $4,000 and q landscape by Van
Goyen for f40o, which be sold for
5000. sitS
The total number Of working women
In Japan Il $4,000. OF these 428.OO0
are engaged in factories. for over 50
per cent Of the labor employed in Japa-
nese factoies b female. The profes-
isional and business women are the 70
maining 10000. In the former class
there ars $4,000 teachers and 10000
nurses. IL. q s' n, I
4 Sir Aston Webb, the architect In
eharge Of the reconstruct Hon work soon
TO begin at Buckingham palace. ID re.
spondble for the architectural sur
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