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

LOliO.
Paraguay is successfully growing
coffee.
Baltimore ant1-noise crusaders want
factory whistles silenced.
In Tibet the work Of carpenters and
masons is done by
Atlanta is to have a large interde-
~noninational rescue mission.
An electrically driven machine to
split kindling wood is a novelty.
Roast muskrat Is being served as an
eplcurean delicacy In New York hotels.
In a good year France pays taxes on
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 fends.
Statisticans say $4,000, coo worth of
golf balls are knocked about on Ameri-
can links annually.
Hospital nurses in F1atbush, n. T.,
have been forbidden to amuse them
selves with ragtime music.
| Philadelphia reports that the diph-
iberia death rate Of 1912 was "a per
cent lower than that Of 1911.
The pulp mills of Sweden require
1890 tons Of sulphur annually. Prac-
tically all Of it IN 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 3G 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
West Indies. owing to lack Of financial
support.
The most complete reference collec-
ton of drugs in the United States has
been installed in the National museum
in Washington.
In 1900 Bill per cent Of the popula-
ton Of Washington was colored. while
two years & this percentage had been
reduced to 2s,5.
Hunters killed 2.65O deer in the Adj
rondacks last season, according to sta
tistics collected by the New York state
conservation committee.
Belgium has a capital punishment
law for murder and sentences prison
ers under 1t. but never can find any
n to act as hangman.
OF the 5.0)O. 900 Inhabitants of LON
don. more than 100000 have to live
on less than Sc a week for each family.
while more than 100000 are In chronic
poverty.
One of the unique sights Of the
streets Of Port Elizabeth, In South Al
RIGA, is drayloads of ostrich feathers on
saturdays when the weekly steamers
leave for Europe.
A German 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 n 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 propellers and to
keep the craft from skidding on turns.
With good reason Is Guatemala
known as 1.-The land of the six cent dol
lar Its currency has steadily shrunk
In value until now the GuatemalaI
dollar is worth about 6 cents in gold
OF the million dollars spent by the
city Of Stockholm, Sweden. for Its
school system last year $500 was fol
Domestic science. $17.500 for schooI
lunches, $500 for school physicians
and $500 for the dental clinic.
The French government Is encourag
Ing experiments with a new device t.
protect against hail. essentially a yer,
large lightning rod OF pure copper
which is claimed to affect atmospheric
electricity SO that hailstones canno
form.
The territory OF Hawaii has now ae
d quired for $40, 900 the 3S7 acre Palolt
water rights. On Palolo hill a big res
ervoir, probably the highest In the re
gion. Will be built shortly. and II,
work Of connecting the new suppl,
with the city mains is to be rushed t
an early completion.
The Germans are doing excellen
work With cement. converting 1t Int
forms Of every possible description an,
producing limitations Of many elasse
OF stones and tiles. The confidence o
German builders In cement for all puF
poseA seems to he boundiess. aud the,
are willing to erect lighter structure