The river press., 1913-03-05
ROUND THE WORLD


but may soon create the Office.
The famous Latakia tobacco crop
averages only $50 tons a year.
New York has within its city bound
aries $4,000 vacant acres Of Ian.
Manufacturers are seeking substi-
tute for glass which will not be brittle.
Wages in Belgium are lower general
~ than in any other European country.
Porto Ricans are displacing bull
drawn carts on great estates by auto
mobiles.
The demand for their hides in South
Africa is met by Matching alligators In
incubatOrs.
Evangelist Billy Sunday says the
last genuine religious revival in the
United States was that Of 1867.
India's latest great irrigation project
Is the Niri Right Bank canal, In Bonn
bay presidency. It cost $S,5O0,OOO.
A hospital for women will be estab-
lished in south London because Of at
least a supposed demand that women
want women doctors.
There are now New York, Chicago,
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia market
ing clubs, the last to be organized be-
ing those Of Philadelphia.
Motormen of the traction system of
the English city of Birmingham re-
ceive cash bonuses when they avoid
accidents due to negligence.
Old Epiphany Baptist church, Phila-
delphia. long a landmark, is to be de-
molished to make way for an apart
ment house to cost $10O0,0O0.
Recent official figures placed the
number of sheep in Australia and New
Zealand in excess of 117,OOOyOOO, the
greatest number in eighteen years.
An American sewing machine COM
pany has opened eight schools in
China, in which the natives are taught
to embroider with silk by machinery.
DR.. Fl. s. Frost, superintendent of
Boston's Hospital For the Insane, re-
ports great success in the use of warm
water baths in calming violent pa
tients.
New York authorities are starting a
campaign for a stricter law to govern
and restrict the sale Of cocaine. The
present law is too feeble to check the
traffic.
Germany's area devoted to vine cul-
ture reached its maximum, 297,0 ,037
acres, in 1906 and has since decreased
by 27,9OO. The vintage varies greatly
from year to year.
A shadowless drafting table invent
ed by Wisconsin man is made Of
plate glass. lighted from below by
electric lamps. which also quickly dry
ink used on drawings.
The record for submergence is claim
ed by the Italian navy, as one of its
submarine boats recently remained un-
der water with twenty men on board
for twenty-four hours.
On the back of each seat of new
London theater there will be coin in
the slot telephones to enable persons
with defective hearing to listen to
what is being said on the stage.
The National Poultry association has
been organized in Havana, with
branches all over the island, for the
purpose of promoting the breeding of
all kinds Of poultry on large scale.
The price of fresh salmon in Ger.
many is about "A cents pound in the
spring and reaches double that figure
at other times. Canned smoked sal
mon is preferred to the fresh canned
fish.
Minute measurements of ball bear
ings on the aXles of New Jersey troll
ley car that has Travelled about $780,
600 miles in four years showed that
they had resisted abrasion almost per.
fectly.
Parties sent out by the French gov
ernment to explore the Sahara desert
have reported that the obstacles in the
way of building a railroad across the
waste of sand are not so great as was
supposed.
Captain Louis G. Flatau of st. Louis
has $50 practical inventions to his
credit in the patent office at Washing
ton. His latest is a turbine engine
which he expects to revolutionize
u lAl1oH W lt1Au uuu Scd.
Deck benches that have been in
stalled on the steamers of one trans
atlantic line can be converted into life
RATS to carry six persons by raising
lower portions to level with the
seats, where they lock automatically.
The popular belief that the Panama
railroad was constructed at cost of
one life for every railroad tie is a gross
exaggeration. There are 100000 ties,
and in the five years of it's construc-
tion a total Of 1000 laborers We're en-
ployed
All our coffee must be purchased
outside Of this country. But this does
not deter the American public from
using S70,0OO,OOO pounds Of it every
year. or nine and one-quarter pounds
for each man, woman and child in the
country.
Now that Lassa has succumbed to
the advance of the globe trotter what