The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-09-18
round THE WORLD
Cleveland is now III years old.

Lie new Atlantic coast port Of Uru-
quay is to be named Atlantida.
Vigo, Spain, has $4,000 inhabitants.
who depend largely on fisheries.
Mexlco's first button factory has been
started in Mexico City. Ecuadoriap
ivory nuts are used
A press weighing 10000 tons has
been manufactured in England for
bending armor plate.
Dean George Hodges of Harvard
theological school, says the world never
was socially better than it is now.
Alloys Suizer of St. Louis is protected
from kidnapping by his first wife by
big bulldog provided by his second
wife.
India annually exports about a mil
lion pounds Of fish maws and shark
fms for edible purposes, mainly to other
oriental lands.
Chicago makers Of women's ready to
wear garments employ over 100000
persons and have yearly output
valued at $27,OOO,OOO.
Inc British meteorological Office has
established a station for furnishing
weather information and forecasts to
aviators and aeronauts.
IN Chicago young woman caused
the arrest Of her beau for yowling
like cat under her window to at
tract her attention at midnight
There are about 800 electric stations
in the United States equipped with ice
making plants proftably to utilize the
surplus power in the summer months.
The importation Of cotton prints has
gradually dropped to nothing in Japan,
! because Of the increased manufacture
at home of the cheaper grades of cot
ton goods.
A new German machine cleans and
sorts medicinal tablets, rejecting brok-
en- ones, and packs them in boxes or
tubes at rate Of from 10000 tc
100000 day.
Honoring the memory of John
kinzie, Chicago's first civilian, bronze
tablet has been unveiled at Pine and
klnz1e streets, under the auspices of
| the Chicago Historical society.
Southern Belgium is likely to OBJ
tain a great water supply from an un-
derground lake which was discovered
a short time ago. At present it is de-
! pendent on rainwater.
1t Is common saying in the far east
that Japan pays its national debts in
raw silk and silk products. The mi
kado's realm last year sold $1OO,OOO,-
OOO worth of these materials abroad
During a recent election in Sweden
the interesting fact was revealed that
| only SO per cent Of the women voters
| We're disqualified for failure to pay
taxes as compared with 24.6 per cent
| of the men.
A French society for the encourage
ment Of national Industries recently
awarded a gold medal to q farmer
who established a sauerkraut factory
in which all the machinery was elec-
trically driven.
That an ostrich farm is of more
value than a good cattle ranch is
shown by an authority who puts the
value of beef animal at $40 at five
years of age, while an ostrich of the
same age is worth $780,
Paraguay tea (yerba mate) is becon1-
ing formidable rival of tea and cof-
fee in South America Brazil export
ed over $10O00,0OO worth of it last
year. After coffee and rubber, it is
now the most important of Brazils ex-
ports.
Pupils in a German school were re-
Gently tested as to their reading Of
newspapers. In the highest elementary
class of forty-four, twenty-five read
newspaper every day, fifteen at
least once a week and four less fire.
quently.
An interesting new farm product,
the *'beetato," is a hybrid, between an
Irish potato and a red beet It has
the shape Of a potato, the meat being
deep purple. Great possibilities are
claimed for the product as a food. A
farmer at Silver Springs Station, Ore
is experimenting with the hybrid
An English case Of separation is re-
corded where the wife waived alimony,
STIMULATING only that she should not
be disturbed in the use of a room in
house owned by her husband, where
she had machine and earned her
living as seamstress. This was also
inserted in the separation papers.
The department Of agriculture has
issued the largest water power permit
ever issued by that body, granting
rights to the Pacific Light and Power
company of Los Angeles to operate
power plants in the Sierra national
forest It will carry electric power
24O miles to Los Angeles and vicinity.
There are more deaths than births in
Prussia, and the only augmentation
Of the population is by illiterates from
the near east France has just voted
large grants to parents who have more
than two children, and it is considered
likely that other states suffering from
the loss Of native population may do
likewise.
It is shown that the Mysore infant
marriage prevention regulation has