The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-02-06
ROUND THE GLOBE

Lyons, France. is trying TO drive out
cocaine dendS and TO restrict sales.
As butter exporting country Aus
tralia now ranks second. Denmark be-
ing first.
Pittsburgh clubwomen have decided
to abolish the hatpin as dangerous
nuisance.
Operated much like a job printing
press is a new rapid printing machine
for photographs.
state supported schools in England.
France and Germany.
All over the world oil fuel is grad
ually taking the place of coal and 9th
er less easily handled fuels.
\ steamship line has offered to carry
free to England the first 1000 tons of
cotton grown in South Africa.
An electric alarm that gives warning
when mine roof begins to move has
been invented hy an Australian.
Brazil is to have the largest reser-
yoir in the world after the dam at
eros. in the state of Ceara. is built.
\ manufactures of artistic furniture
in Paris has just completed a chair
the fore legs of which are of solid gold.
A Michigan knitting mill is making
artificial silk from vegetable fiber and
converting it into hosiery and under
wear.
An electrical machine for cutting
umbrella covers in New York factO-
ry cuts $50 thicknesses Of fabric at
once.
AS much as $1,000 has been paid In
South Africa for male ostrich of
good strain and producing exception
ally fine feathers.
DR.. L. II. Sven of Washington pre-
diets that the woman of the future will
have thick neck. broad shoulders and
other masculine features.
The Germans are doing great road
building work in Africa, and at no dis
tant date the possessions of that coun
try in the dark continent will be in
touch with each other by motor routes.
For cleaning floors New York in
ventor has patented an electric ma
chine which applies water to a floor
and scrubs it as it is pushed forward
and picks up the soiied water as it is
drawn back.
In the stomach of II crocodile which
was shot by Mr.. Wells on the Merguan
estate. Madras, We're found python
thirteen feet long. two tobacco pipes,
Il number of pieces of whisky bottles
and pair OF trousers.
Tan Teong. Chinaman residing in
Malay states. was recently fined f2O.
with the alternative of three weeks
Imprisonment, for selling his adopted
baby girl for flo to buy a coffin in
which to bury his wife.
Exports of American pianos have
trebled in the last nine years. Amer
ican monographs are popular in all
parts of the world. In Mohammedan
countries monographs are used to re-
peat portions Of the Koran.
There is good deal of vacuum clean
ing done in France by large machines
that go through the streets and clean
houses and apartments by hose reach
ing to any floor. The individual vac
uum cleaner is little known.
There is today in Paris a concierge
who is reaping a small harvest of tips
from visitors to an attic which ii quar-
ter of a century ago was tenanted by
the present king or Servia in the less
palmy days of his pretendership.
An officer of the United States navy
has found that the power of high
speed vessels propeller is increased
about 10 per cent by placing ribs on
the faces of its blades to decrease the
partial vacuum that always occurs
there.
Silk merchants of Tientsin. China,
have learned a lesson from the loOting
of their shops during the revolution.
The entrance to each shop now Is mar
row and the door made very heavy
and plated with iron. The small street
windows are protected by iron bars.
Miss Mary Blake Of London was re-
Gently charged with insulting beha-
vior' in the Bow street court and fined
f5 ito be of good behavior for six
months" Her offense consisted of in
sisting upon remaining with Il woman
prisoner who was being tried by men
in court full of men.
A dog in a bread pan, a woman with
dirty fingers poking chocolate cakes, q
woman clerk carrying a half dressed
her free arm were among the sights
that greeted the Chicago councils sub
committee ON health recently on a
bakeries inspection trip
DR.. +. r. Bergius, the scientist who
has been conducting experiments in
producing artificial coal. has by EN-
ploying a high temperature and high
pressure changed cellulose to peat in u
few hours. The same change by the
process employed by nature, he states.
required 100000 years.
Dr. Vincent Llorente. physician to
the Spanish royal household. has re-
turned home after completing a two
months study of methods employed in
American institutions for the deaf and
dumb. He was sent here by the queen
of Spain to collect data regarding the
education Of Miss Helen Keller.
One of the worlds great peppermint
farms consisting Of 1.250 acres. is To-
Gated near Saginaw, Mich. 1t is part
of the prairie farm which nine years
ago was largely covered with water.
Since then it has been. drained and
dyked. The aromatic crop is worked
up In two dlstilleries for the manufac-
ture of peppermint oil.