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nues exceeded $42, ,525 900.
Automobile fire engines will soon De
in service in Bangkok, Siam.
According to the last census, there
are $4,000 foreigners in Egypt
A Bombay philanthropist has given
$4,000 to start war on tuberculosis.
Double deck electric cars are rum
ming on the suburban system of Paris.
Many denominations have Joined to
form creedless church in Forest
Hills, N. Y.
Iron and steel manufactures are now
being exported from this country at
the rate of a million dollars q day.
In sixteen years conflagrations in
Russia have destroyed 100000 build
ings worth more than $S00,00000O.
Durango, Mex, has a population of
not more than 10000 people, yet it uses
up 100000 pairs of shoes each year.
Old John Street Methodist church,
New York, has just celebrated its one
hundred and forty-sixth anniversary.
Denmark has dropped its plan to en-
large the harbor of st. Thomas, in the
West Indies, owing to lack of financial
support.
An advertisement recently appeared
in a daily paper in Germany Offering
a reward for a watch lost from an
aeroplane.
Quartz lamps are eXper1mentally in
use on the streets of Chicago and are
said to put the other electric lamps in
the shade.
Vegetarianism is almost the rule in
northern China, the food principally
consisting Of turnips, potatoes, maize,
rice and millet.
The Austrian courts have recently
affirmed the principle first established
in the United States that a typewrit-
ten will is legal.
A factory in England has succeeded
in making paper from Australian blue
gum wood of which there is large
supply available.
The number of employees of both
sexes in Swiss hotels exceeds 10000.
The $4,000 restaurants give employ
ment to $4,000 more.
Very few American families spend
less than $3.50 a year for meat, and
milk and butter cost the average fam
lily at least $75 a year.
There is some clamor in Holland for
a direct railway line which would re-
duce the distance between Rotterdam
and Amsterdam one-third.
Two Belgian army officers have in
vented a carriage for machine guns
which can be drawn by dogs, the
wheels having pneumatic tires
The establishment of the Neither
lands as an independent monarchy in
1913 will be commemorated in various
forms in that country next year.
Offering prizes to its motormen for
an English company has resulted in a
saving of % per cent Of the current.
The city of Osaka at the end of 1911
had a population Of 1,239,373, being
the second city in size and the largest
manufacturing center in the japanese
empire.
In the construction of the new COM
edy house at FrankfOrt-on-the-M Main
the usual footlights are dispensed with.
A better system of lighting the stage
has been devised.
The Bulgarian military transport
service impartially uses pack animals,
buffalo carts, horse drawn wagons and
big automobile trucks, according to the
road or lack of one.
On the second day of the year every
stranger entering Roumanian house
is expected to throw a small quantity
of salt on the fire. The salt is kept
ready in cups on the table.
An Australian ranchman in New
South Wales has come to the conclu-
sion that he can get a better return
from ostriches on $500 acres than from
twice that area devoted to sheep.
By a decree of the Spanish govern.
ment women will in future be admit
ted to all universities in Spain on the
to follow any profession for which the
university diploma qualities them.
Vermont is now the only state that
has an unbroken record of Republican
victories since the formation of that
party. Vermont cast its electoral vote
for Fremont in 1856 and it has been
regular ever since, in fifteen successive
elections.
Rattan Tata, q wealthy Bombay mer-
chant, has given $1,000 a year for
three years to the University of Lon
don to promote the study Of the best
means for preventing and relieving
poverty. The fund will be administer
ed by bureau provided for that pur-
pose.
Organizations of women known as
hausfrauenvereine, or housewives as
sOciation, based on the principle Of CO
operation and mutual assistance be-
tween the housekeepers of town and