The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-09-12
THE WORLD

American CASTLE soap II sold extern
sively In Havre. France.
Switzerland now owns the st. Co.
thard tunnel and railway.
Applications for patents in Great
Britain last year numbered 30,0S9.
Montreal police authorities favor the
proposal to add several policewomen
to the force. t.qfse ag.t
Australia's public debt now stands at
s., 1870. O39. ZOO. The annual interest bill
reaches s477 ABS, $50.
The coal handling machinery for the
Panama canal coaling stations will be
operated by electricity. .
The output Of phosphate. rock in
Florida in 1912 was 2,579.8G5 long tons.
an increase of S5.293 tonss over 1911.
production.
Germany uses $4,000 tons Of Amer
lean lubricating oils annually. Its to-
tai consumption Of such oils reaches
$4,000 tons.
The elevators Of Manhattan carry
100000 passengers every day, yet
they killed only thirty-eight people
In ten years.
The city Of Bergen has the largest
merchant feet in Norway and has ves-
sells engaged in time charter in every
part of the world.
The shoe product Of the United
States exceeds that of England. Ger
many. France and Italy, with a few
more countries thrown in.
Russia has under consideration four
competing projects for the construc-
ton Of the White Sea railway from the
city Of Archangel to western Siberia.
During last year 41.620 books were
published in Japan. while Germany,
the most bookish Of European nations.
had only 81,281 volumes to her credit.
There are 247 newspapers published
In South Africa. In which $7,600.O00 ia
invested. They give employment to
1000 Europeans and $50 colored people.
Within the last thirty ysaaftsJsthe popu-
lation Of Jerusalem has increased great
~. 1t included in 1880 only 10000
Jews, whereas in the present popula-
ton Of over $4,000 there are no less
than $4,000 Jews.
The second wedding Of the thirteen
year-old daughter of H%aricharan Chak-
abarty. the first Hindu widow who
has ever remarked, took place ut Chit
TAGGING, India. Her first husband died
when she was six years old.
For quickly raising to the surface
of the water a disabled submarine an
Englishman has invented a buoy to
he released from the boat, carrying
up hose through which air can be
pumped to fill and lift the craft.
The fresh water lakes in the central
part Of Tasmania have been particular
" suited to the American sebago. or
~nonseagoing variety Of salmon. A
growth from two ounces to -four pounds
in twenty-one months has been noted.
If an English engineers plan to run
an electric railroad up the side of
Mount Popocatapetl. in Mexico. be car
Iried out. passengers will experience
la change in temperature from 20 de-
|gress above zero to 10 below within
two hours.
The Chinese have invented a new
character or sign for empire" A
square with the sign Of a king inside
was their old character or sign for
.'kingdom." but now ''empire" is rep.
resented by a square with the sign of
people inside.
Although banana raising is not very
profitable in Cuba because Of cost of
mule back transportation. planting
goes on briskly. partly because the
farmer needs the banana trees to give
the necessary shade to his young coffee
and cacao trees.
DR.. Henry Nachtel. founder of the
New York night medical service. has
Just received from the French min
lister Of war the military medal Of the
Franco-German war of 1870. In which
he served as assistant surgeon major
attached to the northern army.
There is q steady decrease in silk
cocoons in France. The large bounty
paid by the government to foster the
Industry has not lwen sufficient to raise
the average. France may send q COM
mission t Japan to study the silk
growing conditions there. as the Jap
anese silk crop increases every year.
Russia;s department of agriculture
has prepared a law prohibiting the
culture of the poppy In the Trnns-
baikal. Amur and Maritime Provinces.
The cultivation Of the plant Is to be
: criminal 0ffense. as will be also the
smoking Of opium or the storing or
purchasing It. and the purchase OF
utensils for smoking opium.
Letter boxes are used OF suburban
street cars IN three American cities
Des Moines. Ia. Burlington. Ia. and
Grand Rapids. Mich. This gives the
suburban residents q chance to send
mail to the postofnce every hour. II
the car IL signaled for the purpose
81 putting mail In the box. the sender
3 required to pay the conductor the
minimum carfare.
Julio Lecaros , Navas. now IN Lima.
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