Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-03-24
ROUND THE WORLD

C~hicagoans may soon build a $1,000.
900 grand opera house.
There are 250,015 children in Chicago
under FIVE years of age.
The first playground in Detroit was
started by clubwomen twelve years
ago.
The new British Dreadnought Iron
Duke is especially armored against at
tack by airships.
American steel piling has been used
In the great irrigation works at Hin
dia, near Bagdad.
In several provinces of China men
are being shot to death by the govern
ment for smoking opium In secret.
Last year there were 275.000,0OO
acres Of land plowed in the United
States at an estimated cost of s4oo,0 0O,-
600.
Ninety tons OF fresh water mussels
recently were taken from a London
water main supplied by the river
Thames.
-Four times as much wood was manu-
featured into paper In the United
States last year as there was fifteen
years ago.
After twenty years Of experimenting
a Philadelphia scientist has succeeded
in Matching Eggs Of diamond backed
terrapin in an incubator.
Great Britain carries on more trade
with Germany than any other country.
with France and the United States
ranking second and third.
A San Francisco dog has been pro-
vided with a silver hinge for one Of
his hind legs by a surgeon who operat-
ed for removal Of diseased bone.
The odor of the FIR tree dlsgusts the
cotton boil weevil. The southern cot
ton fields are being cleared Of the pests
by planting these trees about them.
Sweden and Norway together manu-
facture more carbide Of calcium than
any other single nation, but use less.
exporting almost their entire product.
Glove trees In the islands Of Zanzi-
bar and Pemba. in East Africa. have
been officially estimated to number
$500. 900, says the American consul ut
Zanzibar.
Previous to 1906 Morocco had prac-
tically no public improvements. but the
international conference Of Algeciras
has forced them upon it. Now it is to
have harbors, lighthouses and roads.
The Oldest agricultural society in
England Is the Royal. 1t was founded
In 1888. It will hold its annual show
at Bristol this year In July. Among
the prizes offered are some for milking
machines.
A course in penal studies was re-
Gently instituted by the university Of
Montpelier. France. Physicians, pub
~licists, lawyers. police and court off,
Gals were among those who enrolled
for the course.
The new stamp marking the ter
centenary OF the Romanof rule Of
Russia is to be withdrawn. 1t bears
n picture Of the ear. and postmasters
do not dare cancel them by stamping
the cars face.
Leon Carvalho, having lost in a game
Of chess with his brother Pascual at
Oviedo. Spain. paid the ~prearranged
penalty Of exchanging his mother-in-
law for the winners and taking the
latter to live with him.
In the past calendar year losses by
fire in the United States averaged
$4,000 a day and aggregated $207,.
643. 900. The loss was nearly S1O,O0O,-
600 less than that of 1911 and about
100000 less than that Of 1910.
Six large spiders are working for
Uncle Sam as part of the Panama ca
nal force. From their cocoons the in
strument makers will take threads for
use In all the engineers transits on
the canal work. The threads take the
place Of platinum.
Frederick G. Hid, a young aviator.
up 1000 feet at Mineola, N. T., saw a
tall tower dead ahead" shut off his
motor and volplaned to the ground.
Then he learned he had seer In a mi
rage the tower Of the waterworks, 4
ulll6 duu b HALL away.
The man who is fond Of honey, but
who has hitherto hesitated to establish
an apiary in his back yard through a
very natural fear Of the singing tend
encies of the ~honeybee, may now take
heart. The production of the stngless
bee is announced from London.
Ii Hung Chang, tho statesman whose
name once filed the world. is honored
at Shanghai by the first statue erected
in the Chinese empire to a Celestial
after the of the scuIptor's art.
The style of monument preferred by
the Chinese has hitherto taken the
form of a temple.
Detaille. the French military painter.
desired. like the English artist Tur-
ner. that his country should possess
his paintings. and such of his pictures
as he possessed at the time OF his
death are to become public property.
His house. containing his collection of
uniforms. weapons. ETC.. is to be de-
voted to the purposes of a museum.
Justice Cot of New York deserves
the thanks Of the United States navy
for his remarks in sentencing q way
ward youth who pleaded that II let OF
he would Join the navy. "The navy
| the Judge said. docs not want men OF
your class. The time has gone by when
we can use the navy for ~reformatory