The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-09-12
ROUND THE WORLD v /.

postal service.
Spain is now building diminutivs
Dreadnoughts.
Pennsylvania savings banks hold
$377 ,025, 116 In deposits.
The average yearly profit at the ca,
sino, Monte Carlo, Is $5,O0OOOO.
Chicago fortune tellers are said to
have a secret union and scale Of prices.
Illinois in 1912 produced 2S,OOO,OOO
barrels Of oil of forty-two gallons each.
Philadelphia is giving service badges
to all policemen serving FIVE years or
more.
1t costs $1,0O0,OOO a year to maintain
the national pure food bureau In Wash
ington.
Sierra Madre, Cal, now has one
story apartment houses, Spanish mis-!
sion style.
Brand Whitlock of Toledo says he
thinks Glasgow the best governed city
in Europe.
DR.. G. #. Sammis OF Brooklyn has
discovered that ether may be success.
fully used hypodermically.
Not only will the house of the future
be made Of glass, but the pipes, con.
duits and sanitary fixtures.
Five francs 1865 cents) is more than
the average laborer gets for days
work in the Lyon district OF France.
The cleansing of the bottom Of an
ocean going vessel is now accomplished
by a machine without leaving the
water.
The Astronomic society Of Mexico
will present medal and diploma to
every astronomer who discovers q
comet.
England and Wales together have
40 special schools for the blind, 81 for
the deaf and PAS for otherwise defec.
tive children.
A strong magnifying glass to be fas-
tened to the thumb with a clip has
been patented in England to help a
person thread needle.
Black opals, for several years ex-
tensively mined In New South Wales,
have become exceedingly rare, hardly
any having been found for nearly q
year.
With the exception of local food
supplies Of fish, fruit and vegetables
most Of the food consumed In the Ba-
hamas comes from the United States,
chiefly in the form Of canned goods.
Nearly three times as many British
as American workmen are employed
In the construction Of the Panama
canal, OF 62,S10 In the canal zone
proper Great Britain claims 30,S59 as |
citizens, while the United States |
claims 1850.
Prince Louis Alexander of Batten-
berg, who has become first sea lord Of |
the British admiralty, Admiral Sir |
Francis Bridgeman having resigned,
owing to i'll health, Is a naturalized |
British subject, having been born at |
Gratz, Austria, in 1854. He was nat
and entered the British navy
In 1868.
The last Of the horse omnibuses Of
Paris disappeared from the streets
Jan. IL. A long procession of motor.
cars and taxicabs filed with flowers
solemnly accompanied 1t on it's last
journey, while Immediately behind II
was a motorcar covered with a pail
and decorated with funeral wreaths
and crosses.
A large number Of time clocks have
been placed on the various tramway
ines Of Leeds The conductor registers
zach time he passes a clock, which re-
'ords the time. This has done away
With timekeepers and has assured more
ocular running Of the cars. Similar
locks have been in use In Liverpool
md Manchester for some time.
One Of the few funds, II not the
My one, left for charity by a presi-
lent Of the United States is used in
lancaster, Pa, for the purchase Of
oal for the poor at Christmas and for
ther good uses. The fund was left
y President Buchanan, who was a
esident Of Lancaster, and the income
ow amounts to about 5000 a year. {
If it is found possible the United
tates navy department will recover
he cannon, bronze ornaments and
Their relics OF the old American frig- I
to Philadelphia, the hulk of which
as rested and rotted In the mud Of
ne harbOr Of Tripoli since 1904, when
be was set on fire and sunk by Lieu
enant Decatur to prevent her use by
he pirates who had captured her.
A novelty in the way of a textbook
Dr. teaching English to foreign labor
rs is, it is stated, to be used by the
hicago Young Mems Christian as
ociatiOn. 1t will be called Safety
irst For Foreigners" and each lesson
Ill consist Of a picture showing the
est way Of avoiding danger. 1t is
Oped in this way to reduce the large
lumber of accidents to foreigners in
hicago.
In 1913 the king Of Prussia sent out
ON Breslau the famous "Call to my