Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-01-28
ROUND the GLOBE


Ohio.
Paraguay is successfully growing
coffee.
Baltimore anti-noise crusaders want
factory whistles silenced.
In Tibet the work of carpenters and
masons is done by
Atlanta is to have a large interde-
nominati0nal rescue mission.
An electrically driven machine to
split kindling wood is a novelty.
Roast muskrat ia being served as an
eplcurean delicacy in New York hotels.
In a good year France pays taxes Oh
more than a thousand million gallons
Of wine.
Platinum for wedding rings is the
latest Partisan fad. Platinum Is cost
lier than gold.
Professor Hueppe Of Berlin says
Americans are coming to be a nation
OF dope iends.
Statisticans say $4,000, 900 worth Of
golf balls are knocked about on Ameri-
can links annually.
Hospital nurses in Flatbush. n. T..
have been forbidden to amuse them
selves with rsgtime music.
Philadelphia renc.ts that the diph-
iberia death rate Of 1912 was "a per
cent Tower than that of 1911.
TIE pulp mills of Sweden require
72.Sls0 tons OF sulphur annually. Prac-
! tically al .of-'n from Sicily.
st. Agnes lighthouse In England has
been closed and the light extinguished
after $50 years of continuous service.
During the last few years the price
! of raw produce of farms IN the United
States of America has risen by SO per
cent.
st. Louis Is being urged to adopt the
plan of assessing benefited localities
for the purchase and maintenance of
parks.
Denmark has dropped its plan to en-
large the harbor Of st. Thomas in the
support.
The most complete reference collec-
ton Of drugs In the United States has
been installed in the National museum
in Washington.
In 1900 31.1 per cent Of the popula-
ton Of Washington was colored. while
two years ago this percentage had been
reduced to 28.5.
Hunters killed 1850 deer In the Adj
rondacks last season. according to sta
tistlcs collected by the New York state
conservation committee.
Belgium has a capital punishment
law for murder and sentences prison
ers under It, but never can find any
one to act as hangman.
or the 100000 inhabitants of Lon
don. more thar 100000 have to live
on less than Sc a week for each family.
while more than 100000 are in chronic
poverty.
One Of he unique sights Of the
streets of Port Elizabeth. in South Al
RIGA, Is drayloads of ostrich feathers on
leave for Europe.
A German vacuum ice machine of
convenient size for household use does
away with the need Of using dangerous
acids and can be operated by one hand
or a small electric motor.
The use of wood block paving In Paris
is steadily extending until now most
Of the leading m and public
places on both sides Of the Seine are
paved with that material.
A Delaware builder of high speed
boats Is mounting the rudders just
forward Of amidships to avoid inter
ference with the propeIlers and to
keep the craft from skidding on turns.
With good reason Is Guatemala
known as tho land of the six cent dol
lar Its currency has steadily shrunk
in value until now the Guatemalan
dollar is worth about 6 cents in gold.
or the million dollars spent by the
city Of Stockholm, Sweden. for It's
school system last year $500 was for
domestic science. $1I.5Oo for school
lunches. $500 for school physicians
and s2.4O0 for the dental clinic.
The French government Is encourag-
ing experiments with a new device to
protect against hnil. essentially a very
large lightning rod of pure copper,
which Is claimed to affect atmospheric
electricity SO that hailstones cannot
form.
The territory of Hawaii has now &C.
quired for $4,000 the 3S7 acre Palolo
water rights On ralolo hill a big res,
ervoir. probably the highest in the re-
gion. will be built shortly, and the
work OF connecting the new supply
with the city mains ID to be rushed tO
an early completion.
The Germans are doing excellent
work With cement. converting 1t into
forms of every possible description and
producing limitations OF many classes
Of stones and tiles. The confidence oil
German builders In cement for all pur
pOsea seems to lie boundless. and they
are willing to erect lighter structure.