Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-03-12
ROUND THE WORLD

This year s2s.O0o.OOO may be spent
on Panama canal work.
In street accidents In 1912 532 per-
sons were killed iu New York.
| Commerce Of Hawaii In 1912 was
$15.O0O.000 greater than In 1911.
German manufacturers OF velvet
have combined In a huge syndicate.
| DR.. W. Z. Woodward is advocating
! open air schools for the District of
Columbia.
tant source of the worlds food at no
distant day.
The naval militia Is now organized
In twenty-five states and the District
Of Columbia.
Washington will hereafter grade SAL
aries of public school teachers accord
| Ing to their experience.
New York's department Of education
last year employed 336 lecturers. who
delivered 5.5I3 lectures.
Enlargement Of the arteries is now
cured by the use Of glass tube in
! serted In the affected part.
Nearly Sl.WU.NW is now on deposit in
school savings banks In LAO schools
throughout the United States
| In the last six months Of 1912 there
were constructed In the United States
T9I boats OF nn aggregate tonnage of
i 1G3.5S+.
More than S25O.OOO hns been left uu
claimed by relatives In the cases of
persons found dead In New York In the
last year.
| North Carolina sends much dogwood
and persimmon lumber to England.
where It IL made into shuttles for the
cotton llls.
| The Chinese official newspaper, which
has been published for 800 years. has
been put out of business by the new ad-
ministration.
Men Of northern China, as a rule.
continue to wear their cues, whereas In
southern China nearly every cue has
been discarded.
| Attempts ure being made in Mexico
to make 1t impossible to set railway
bridges on fire by using freproof mate
rial In building.
Four more national bird reservations
were esta ablished by the United States
government last year. making the total
number fifty six.
The government of Uruguay has en-
gagged an agricultural expert from the
United States to organize an aRricui-
tural school in the republic.
Paper from which gas mnntles can be
made. instead Of using the more ex-
pensive fabrics. has been invented by
an Italian scientist.
Official figures show Africa led the
world In the production Of gold last
year. with the Cnitpd States second.
Australasia third and Mexico fourth.
A new method of preserving oil
paintings. recently patented In Ger
many. consists Of inclosinR the entire
picture IN II case having glass front
and filled with nitrogen.
Cow testing associations in Germany
have been established only since 1906.
| nut control more tnnu Il-.WU Gown.
The associations are intended to in
!crease the milk capacity Of German
cows.
Are shorthand writing and note TAX
Ing doomed In courts OF Justice! An
Australian Judge has just declared. 81
believe the day IL not distant when the
phonograph will be regularly used to
take down evidence"
Last year the cornfieids Of the Unit
ed States yielded the greatest crop In
the history of this country. 1t reached
the enormous amount Of 3.169,0OOfk0
bushels. vained at $1.15otk0.OM The
United States ralSes three-Quarters Of
the worlds crop OF corn.
More than 4.5OO.OnO gray squirrels
were killed last year In Siberia for
their fur. The tails alone weighed
over twenty-one tons. The animal nE-
uring next In the fur trnde Of Asiatic
Russia in point Of numbers was the
white hare. which contributed I,bOO..