Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1913-07-18
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The second annual fair Of Sydney,
Austrllia, starts Sept. 80. ii II 2$3
Austlia's cabbage production amounts
to !, 900, 900 tons annually. aE
The ancient city Of Smyrna is to
have an electric street railway.
History records hunger strikes in
England In the sev enteenth century. ia
San @Francisco's Panama exposition
will award IS 10000 iii live stock prizes
Statistics show 579, $50 more church
members III the United States than
last year. 34s85 5'sS
Professor p. N, East of Iaryardshas
invented q new variety of tobacco by
lybridization. y. $S II
Berlin's population is now estimated
at 100000, but counting its suburbs
it claims 100000
New Orleans requires all bread offer
ed for sale to be securely wrapped to-
protect it from flies. n ss5 !; III .35s
Oil that works we'll as fuel IN en-
gines Of certain types has been pro-
duced in, Sweden from shale and slate.
P'liladelphians have placed a bronze
memorinl tablet on the grave Of Com:
modore John Barry ather $of the
American navy.
h Ten Years so the Greek raisinScrop
was scare more than i 900 tons per
annum. The az rage now IS between
Z, Oo0Sand 4 600 tons.
JapanSis buying 81 steadily increasing
amount ~ Of forei ma Iiinery and en-.
gines, the total pure hases for 1912 ag-
gregating ST .175.GS9.
~ It is estimated that, as a consequence
Of the var. N ace onia III lost 100, 900
Of her popu tioiis through DEATH emf
grafton ana otherwise. Ss9SS II,
German builders have announced
that they Will place on the market an
oil burning engine OF the marine type,E
that viii develop 4 600 horse power with
q single cylinder. 81 81
When the water power Of Great lake.
ID the center Of the island OF STas-,
mania, is harnessed to electric gen
orators the island will be almost COM
pleteIy electrified.
By the use Of devices that retard the
draft OF heating tubes Of their boilers
two German transa tlantic liners have
saved 10 per cent In fuel without Inn
pairing their required speed.
The usual cost of labor In railway.
construction work In Portugal is about
as follows: Ia borers. AZ cents a. day.
ma sons Is cents; stone workers and
carpenters. 81 cents: bosses, 81 III. 81
81 The French postal authorttie les are Sex.
pertmenting with American automatic
and semiaut Omatic telephones III two
cities with A view ITO their general III NJ
PRODUCTION into Paris IL satiafac Glory. #s5s
The Germans know how to ma Ike for
esfry prof able. The receipts from the
NBavalian state forests, for exa mple.
were ST.. 587 sin 1912. 81 n ficf
s s3 % was III excess Of expenses.
2 One bride ID ten In California sis ii.
81. iilyol'cee Statis tics compiled by State
sta tistician Leslie show that the total;
sssitInibef Of brides In 19i 9 was 31 go.
Sfof this number 06 were .diYorcaess 8:
Thirty two years ago. women were
2ielm ted the AIassac hHsetts bar 5tos
practice sl x la ers on an equality
wit men fe OF the 500 llwyy ers
! the Boston q irecfory only sixty are
women.
IN nina a Teac lion has set In, ana it
~ reporter that 40 per cent OF those
who adopted foreign dress last year
nave gone bacIs TO natiye clothing, the
result being q rise of 40 per cent ii the
price 0f siiIs
81 irts will be tighter this summer,
and the purse will have to be- looser