The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-08-29
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Emperor Willinm,of Germany, owns
dfty palaces and 5000 suits Of clothes.
Diamond production in German
| Southwest Africa il reported unusually
large. L
Megaphones are used by teachers on
noisy Fairgrounds in Brooklyn. N. T..
to make themselves heard.
There are nearly 5000 useless gas
lampposts in Providence. and IL is fig
ured that It will cost $4,000 to remove
them.
A Chicago artist has discovered that
he can satisfactorily mix paints at
night by wearing violet colored spec.
tacles.
A German scientist has produced
coal from several substances by sub
hitting them to intense heat under
pressure.
,vA. Canadian electric, light company
employs a Chinese solicitor to intro
duce electric irons to the Celestial
l~aundrymen.
The. University OF California English
club recently gave a performance Of
Twelfth Night" on the summit Of
Mount Tamalpnis.
The. Chinese. government has armed
and equipped fourteen automobiles for
patrol work against outlaw bands in
the interior Of Mongolia.
An apparatus invented BY a Paris
scientist matches chickens and pro-
tects them from all microbes until
they reach a desired age.
A st. Louis (Mol woman insisted
the other day on giving a ceremonial
funeral to her 6fteen.year-old pet cat.
using a mahogany casket.
Coffee. crude rubber. OK hides. cheese.
pepper and Benedictine were the prin-
cipal exports from Havre. France. to
the United States last year.
The Balkan war has brought about
q rise in certain lumber prices 10 Eu-
rope because Of the big demand for
wood for ammunition boxes.
Tiny but efficient electric lamps to
be worm on their caps by bandsmen at
night and supplied with current BY
storage batteries have been invented.
Cooperative house building is being
tried put in Hongkong in an effort to
house the steadily increasing 'popula-
ton aud Mt the same time to reduce
rents.
According to a prominent financial
journal of Paris. the consumption Of
coffee in the different countries Of the
world varies in inverse ratio to the
import duty.
A will has been found under eleven
thicknesses Of wall paper by workmen
engaged in stripping the walls of q
house adjoining the Royal Marine
hotel. COwes. s
The total indian population of the
Dominion Of Canada on March 81 last
was 1O4::95H. In addition there were
1900 Eskimos. making a native popu.
lation' Of .1O9.556.
The proposed mid-Scotland canal. it
is now stated. will be % miles long. 36
feet deep and l4S feet wide at the
bottom. flooded with lei water. with
only sea gates at each end, through
which may pass the largest b%attleship.
Anton Durtleyand. Il Turk, spoke
English with German accent when ap-
plying for citizenship papers in
Queens, N. Y: well, l live by der Col
lege Point. NIT Germans, for twendty-
I've years under l learn dere to spike
dose languages"
Modern laws Of France help the
%workingmen to buy homes at a small
price and to rent quarters undesirable
rates, It being recognized that this
form Of philanthropy" Is potent
factor in combating both race suicide
and alcoholism.
Among the gifts to the kaiser's
daughter at her wedding was q
clock sent by the city Of Hamelin. II
ia made from q wine cask sawed III
two. The hours are champagne corks.
The hands are corkscrews and the
weights are bottles filled with cham.
payne.
A great typhoon in 1872 did damage
estimated at $1.O00.O0O in Nagoya har.
Dor and ut $4,000 in Yokkaichi har-
Dor. In both these harbors extensive
Improvements were in progress ut the
time. and these were set back at least
a year. Goods. for America are car
red by lighters to Yokkaichi. and
there placed aboard ocean going yes
sells.
An agricultural colony In Palestine
has Just applied to the United States
forest service for help In planting
trees to bind the drifting sands of the
Mediterranean. The colony is near .Jaf-
"a or Yafa. the ancient J0ppa OF the
Bible, and there is being developed In
connection with 1t a seaside resort.
with hotel, villas. bath houses and gar
dens.
American readers are calling for less
dction. apparently. now than they
were a score Of years ago. In 1890
PAS per: cent OF the books published
In the United Suites we're classed us
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