The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-10-03
ROUND THE WORLD

st. Louis will sooD build a new
sewer five miles long at a cost Of over
$2,0O0.OOO.
Philadelphia officials now quiz all
marriage license applicants along eu-
genie lines. =
Extensions of the boundaries Of Glas-
gov last year made it the second city
In population in the . United Kingdom.
More than five times as many i'm
migrants entered Brazil last year as
went to that vast country ten years
ago. ~
The Rockefeller sanitary commission
for the eradication Of the hookworm
has treated 100000 cases in the past
three years.
A competitive test Of milking ma
chimes in England by the royal agri-
cultural society recently was won by a
Swedish machine. -
OF all the males in England and
Wales aged ten years and upward,
S37 per 1000 are occupied and 1913 per
1000 are unoccupied.
Efforts are being made to extend
navigation on the Rhine to Lake Con-
stance. Three prizes, $4,000. $1,000
and $1,000, are to be given.
Rural districts in Denmark show less
than one-twentieth Of / per cent H.
| literacy. In the United States the cor
responding figure is 10 per cent.
Vacuum cleaners are coming into use
in New York for cleaning sidewalks.
sweeping them after 8 O'Clock in the
morning being forbidden by law.
A French inventor has turned out an
arc light projecting lantern with which
may be used Opaque pictures, glass
lantern slides or motion picture films.
At the request Of the government Of
| China a Chinese student has been as
signed as aid in one Of the 6eld par
ties Of the United States geological
survey.
Medical inspection is particularly
well organized in the department Of
the Seine, France. where 275 medical
inspectors visit the schools Of their
districts every week.
Following an explosion in a Phila-
delphia bleachery 600 Turkish towels
were blown 100 feet in the air and
came down in what looked like a cloud
of gigantic snowfakes.
The success of three department
stores in China has led to the estab-
lishment Of a fourth in the southern
part Of the republic. The greater part
Of the trade is with the Chinese.
A viennese composer has written an
operetta intended for use in the films
only. The characters in it will not
be heard. They will be seen. while an
orchestra plays the music intended to
illustrate their story.
London streets are growing more
dangerous every year. In 1904 1856
persons were killed and ten injured In
traffic accidents in the metropolitan
area. Last year the figures were 537
and 10000 respectively.
The toxic tendencies Of alkaline wa
tiers have been corrected with nitric
acid experimentally by an Australian
chemist, which leads to the belief that
vast areas of unproductive land may
re safely irrigated in that manner.
Tree planting societies have been
started in Norway to cover the noun
tain sides and untillable areas Of the
country with forests. as they were CEN
turtles ago. The annual report shows
that last year IA societies planted
2276.O00 trees.
Hollow concrete tile blocks will be
made at Panama. the canal commits
sion having arranged for the erection
Of a plant for their manufacture. Most
of the permanent buildings at the new
town Of Balboa will probably be erect
ed with these blocks.
Thirty-nine million passengers in all
crossed San Francisco bay between
December. 1911. and December. 1912.
an increase Of over 100000 as record
ed In the yenr previous. They were
carried ON the five ferry lines touching
the east and north shores Of the bay.
Construction of the Peter the Great
fortress. the greatest fortress in the
world. designed for the protection of
st. Petersburg. Russia. has begun.
This fortress will consist of y chain
q ISLAND forts extending across the
gulf Of Finland. a distance Of over
thirty-seven miles.
Last year over $4,000 ministers
preached sermons on the prevention Of
consumption ON tuberculosis day.
which will be held on Dec. Z this year.
It Is hoped this year to swell the num-
Der to 100000 and to urge similar ac-
ton besides In q large number Of the
schools and other societies.
DR.. Pierre Rexe. who has Just an
nounced the discovery Of an anti-chol-
era serum. is director Of the Pasteur
institute, Paris, He made bis state
ment before the Academy Of Sciences
and said that monkeys which had been
infected with cholera had been cured
BY in~ocuiation with the serum.
The shades Of the builders Of the
pyramids might have been interested
onlcokers ut the sight Of iron girders
weighing forty-six tons each going up
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