The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-24
ROUND THE Globe


Trinity church, New York city, is
the richest in the world.
The coin collection of the British
museum numbers 100000 pieces.
A process has been discovered for con
verting oak wood to artificial ebony.
Mexico uses more cigarettes than
any other country in proportion to its
population.
Annapolis cadets have been ordered
to shun barber shops and to do their
own shaving.
The metric system of weights and
measures is the only one legally rec
ognized in Spain.
A French scientist urges putting
ones pillow under ones feet as a rem
edy for insomnia.
Denmark has a law that prevents a
merchant from having more than two
clearing sales year.
Shoemaking is the leading industry
on the Balearic isles. One factory
turns out 10000 pairs year.
w. H. Osgood of Field museum, Chi
cago, is back from Peru with 1000
specimens of fauna for the institution.
About So per cent of the cultivated
acreage in British India is under rice.
The average crop exceeds 23,000,000
tons.
The Chicago police have equipped a
boat with submarine light to expe-
dite the recovery of bodies of drowned
persons.
Shoes made by well known Chicago
firm are displayed in the shop Win
dows of Baku, on the shores Of the
Caspian sea.
A laboratory for the study of canning
and preserving has been opened at San
Francisco by the United States bureau
of chemistry.
Japan makes use of marine vegeta-
ton more than any other nation. much
of its seaweed being manufactured into
edible gelatin.
The population of Frankfort t-on-the-
Main now exceeds 424,000. OF the
city's twenty four aldermen thirteen
are unsalaried.
This country last year imported
more than $2,S72,00O worth of Swiss
cheese, and the amount is constantly
being increased.
The United States is now leading all
and coffee, but ranks third in the con-
sumption Of tea.
Electrical apparatus which accurate
ly determines the range and tone of
human voices has been invented by a
German woman.
Before a fire brigade can start for a
fire in Berlin the members must all
fall in line in military fashion and sa-
lutte their captain.
Natural gas production in the United
States now amounts to 500,000,O00,0
cubic feet annually, valued in first
hands at $7O,OO0,000.
Ozone is now used to steriliZe the
drinking water at ST. Petersburg, for
merly source of epidemics yearly Of
cholera and typhoid fever.
For pumping heavy liquids a Welsh
inventor has designed a combined pis
ton and rotary pump, with no valves
that can be easily clogged.
But twohundredths of an inch OF
rain was measured at Greenwich OBJ
servatory in England in April, making
it the driest month recorded in a cen
| tury.
Two English physicians are expert
menting with a new parasite will
which they hope to exterminate the
flies of their country in very few
years.
Portuguese East Africa contains the
following game in abundance: Buffalo
crocodile, eland, elephant, giraffe, gnu
hartebeest, hippopotamus, hyena, koo
doc, rhinoceros, antelope, waterbucl
and zebra.
Mickey Smith, basket maker ant
cattle drover, died in the poorhouse al
Dunshaughlin, Ireland, recently at the
! age of 116. He drank heavily anC
smoked constantly. He was married
three times.
1t is rumored that the French Com
| pagnie Generate Transatlantique il
studying the possibility of making
Brest the home port of its American
lines. Brest has perhaps the larges
natural harbor in Europe.
One of the unsolved problems con
nected with ostrich breeding in Soutl
Africa is the defective bar in so many
feathers which are otherwise compar
atlvely perfect. These bars are not
! found in wild bird feathers.
A stained glass window to the mem
ory of Izaak Walton, the "compleat
angler" is to be placed in Winchestel
cathedral, where he was buried. Il
has been decided to make special ap
peal to fishermen for funds.
A pigeon recently flew from Niagara
Falls to New York city in six hours
and thirty-three minutes, or at the rate
of nearly seventy miles an hour. While
the aeroplane can beat this rate, it viii