Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1913-09-12
ROUND The WORLD.

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The Canadian Alaskan boundary is
1,5O7 miles long.
Only about II per cent of Londons
population lives in fats. . =.
An artificial meat has been devils.
ed Of grain by a Belgian chemist.
y The latest health fad Of English
women is to wear their hair uncon.
! fined. VI. .. II
Enlisted men in the American navy
serve as teachers in the island OF
Guam.
a. Chicago's new policewomen must
be over twenty five and unmarried. &C.
cording to an official ruling.
The wireless telegraph now connects
six state capitals of Australia and will
shortly girdle the continent.
Members If the Women's Homestead
association in Boston carry canes and
whistles as protection against Washers
Sapphires comprised nearly two.
thirds Of the value Of gem minerals
produced in the United States last
year. *s2s
Women preachers are becoming more
numerous every day in the United
States, there being now over 5000 of
them. iE1-
Pencil manufacturers are buying up
old red cedar fence rails, in Tennessee
and southwark. to be made into lead
pencils. aE
More than 65,oO0,OOO pounds of al
uminium&&Were consumed in various
industries in the United States last
year, a new high record.
The new Chinese department of ag-
riculture and forestry is very largely
manned by Chinese graduates of the
colleges Of this country. Az
A women's walking club has been
organized In New York to provide ex-
., ercise for wv working girls and others
who are cooped up in offices all day.
In Germany there has been invented
a methodsfor electroplating silver upon
pocelain. producing tableware as beau
tiful, less costly and lighter than solid
silver. &&
Though Uncle Sam has been giving
the original homestead act half CEN
fury ago, he still has about 7OO.OOO,OOO
acres left Z
q A patent has been taken out in Nor
way for an electric push button that
has 'buZzer attachment, enabling
the person called to signal back that
he has heard.
A physician, on visiting London aft
er an interval of some years, was sur
prised by what seemed to him a notice
able increase in the number of red
haired children.
To celebrate a japanese holiday in
Keorea for the first time the govern
ment distributed 100000 young trees
to be planted throughout the treeless
regions of that country
g. In the midst Of alarms from the
Balkans the fact that the city of Tirno-
va, the ancient capital of Bulgaria, has
been almost completely destroyed by
an earthquake passed almost unno-
ticed.
dfscontinuance of the opium
habit in Annoy. China, has caused
considerable trade in cigars. cigarettes
and foreign wines Moving picture
shows are also taking the place of
opium dens. ----,r~-----,--,.
To solve the problem of disposing
of the dead a famous German archi-
tect proposes to erect in the chief cities
immense pyramids, each of which,
hn1 no 90 I
mated bodies.
So great has become the demand for
whale meat in Japan that there is dan
ger of a scarcity Of whales in that
part Of the Pacific, and the Japanese
government has limited the number of
/. whaling vessels. q-.r
A rs foot lookout tower on the Sit
greaves national forest, Arizona. just
constructed by forest officers. was
built entirely of logs without the use
of hosting machinery other than ropes
and tackle blocks. y,
The Buffalo herd on the Wichita ma
tional forest, Oklahoma. now numbers
forty eight. ten calves having been
born this year. When the buffaloes
We're introduced on the Wichita iii
1907 there were fifteen head. II
To protect telegraph poles from rot
ting in the ground new French prac-
tice is to surround their ends with
.earthenware pipes and fill the pipes
with melted resin and sand. which
solidifies and becomes waterproof
a All German submarine boats have
+ been equipped with buoys that can be
detached from the deck of a sunken
: craft at the end Of a cable containing
q telephone wire to enable rescuers to
converse with persons within the boat
Il Knud Rasmussen, the young Danish
explorer, has made the important dis
l. coyery that the so called Peary chan
3 mel at the northern end of Greenland
does not exist, and that Peary Land IS
not an island. but portion Of Green
land s$ K A.
Marked progress in Alabama high
5 schools is reported to the United
States bureau Of education. In 1908
there were so high schools, few Of
them with courses Of more than three
years in length Now there are 132 In
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