The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-08
ROUND the WORLD.

France has 10000 acres of almond
trees.
Arrowroot has doubled in price with
in two years.
Manila is to have electric or gasoline |
motor driven street sprinklers.
British firearms are sold abroad at
the rate Of about $1,6O0.00O year
Growers of vanilla in Guadeloupe
get for the dried bean $1-5O to So 20
pound.
Salt Lake City may construct city
water storage system in City Creek
canyon.
The United States Is now the great
est Photographic materials producing
country.
A hail insurance company has been
formed in Argentina. with capital of
$4,000.
The fourth international congress on
home education will be held In Phila.
delphia in 1914
In 1912 the production of iron and
steel rods in the United States was
twice that of 1901.
More than $500 tons of hazenuts
were exported last year from the AS
turias. record crop.
Part of the Kern oil fields of Cali
fornia have been set aside for the use
of the navy in case of need.
1t will cost S60,OO0.000 to increase
the needed water supply of Rio de la
metro. according to present plans.
Argentina is thinking of importing
camels into certain of its semiarid re-
gions to displace the horse and OK
Russia is to spend millions of dol
lars in making the port of Vladivostok
adequate 80 an enlarged commerce.
The Goldfish from a scientific stand
point will be exhaustively studied by a
Norwegian government commission.
One of New Yorks largest stores has
abolished Dear Sir" Dear Madam"
and Yours truly" from its letter writ
ing.
All motion pictures in Bavaria must
be shown before board of censors
before they can be put on Il screen In
the shows,
Cincinnati man the other day
crawled 100 feet in a filthy sewer 20
rescue baby and succeeded. although
nearly losing his life.
Drilling for oil has begun on the is
land of Sicily. Well informed people
have knows for a long time that oil
was to be found there.
The French inventor of telephone
antedating that of Alexander Graham
Bell by twenty years recently died in
comparative obscurity in Paris
OF late years the Swedish govern
ment has granted cultivation loans,
very extensively, and this has made 1t
easier for the farmers to obtain credit.
To accommodate dirigible balloons,
no matter which way the wind is
blowing. a German hangar Is mounted
on a turntable and is provided with
doors at both ends.
In the hope Of introducing it into the
United States an expert frotn the de-
partment of agriculture has been sent
to Manchuria to get specimens of a
| peach that weighs a pound
| Cars containing apparatus for disin-
/ fectAlg the clothing and baggage of
/ passengers who have been exposed to
contagious diseases have been put into
/ service by an Italian railroad.
| The United States has always been
! the chief destination of emigrating
/ Germans, and still remains so, although
diversion to other parts of the west
ern hemisphere and to Australia is
now observable.
Moving pictures showing attempted
murders, attacks on religious bodies
! highway robberies and. in fact, any
presentation wherein there is vice or
/ violence in any form cannot be shown
In Quebec. Canada.
Chicago has broken new ground in an
/ important departure in city transporta-
/ ton service. The city council recently
passed an ordinance which forbids the
| admission of more passengers to sur.
face or an elevated car than can be
seated.
Grocers who smoke cigarettes while
cutting cheese or serving butter, who
wear soiled aprons in their stores
while waiting on trade and who sweep
their floors while goods are uncovered
league of St Paul.
Covering a period of twenty three
years. the statistical reports show that
1912 was the year when commodity
prices wee the highest and in 1896
the year when they were lowest. The
cost of living was in 1896 the lowest
ever known in this country.
Rotterdam. Holland, has munich
pally operated labor bureau for WON
en-. In the three years it has been, run.
ming it has increased SO greatly in i'm
portance that now the director and her
nine assistants, also women. can
scarcely cope with it's business
In an exhibition Of model Kitchen
given by French merchant 6. Havre
the total value of the contents at re
tail prices was S2SO77. Six American