Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-09-16
ROUND THE WORLD

Suez canal tolls last year amounted
to $26,OOO,OOO
The Canadian Alaskan boundary Is
1907 miles long.
Only about II per cent of London's
population lives in flats.
! An artificial meat" has been devils
ed Of grain by Belgian chemist.
! The latest health fad of English
women is to wear their hair uncon-
fined.
| Enlisted men in the American navy
serve as teachers in the island Of
Guam.
ChicagO's new policewOmen must
be over twenty-five and unmarried, &C.
cOrding to an official ruling.
The wireless telegraph now connects
six state capitals of Australia and will
shortly girdle the continent.
Members of the Women's Homestead
association in Boston carry canes and
whistles as protection against Washers.
Sapphires comprised nearly two
thirds of the value Of gem minerals
produced in the United States last
year.
Women preachers are becoming more
numerous every day In the United
States, there being now over 5000 Of
them.
! Pencil manufacturers are buying up
old red cedar fence rails, in Tennessee
and southwark, to be made into lead
pencils.
More than 65,OOO,OOO pounds Of al
minimum were consumed in various
industries in the United States last
year, new high record.
The new Chinese department Of ag-
riculture and forestry is very largely
manned by Chinese graduates Of the
colleges of this country.
A women's walking club has been
organized in New York to provide ex-
ercise for working girls and others
who are cooped up in offices all day.
In Germany there has been invented
a method for electroplating silver upon
pocelain, producing tableware as beau
tiful, less costly and lighter than solid
silver.
| Though Uncle Sam has been giving
away land ever since the passage of
the original homestead act half cen
fury ago, he still has about 7OO,OOO,OOO
acres left.
Aapatent has been taken out in Nor
way for an electric push button that
has buzzer attachment, enabling
the person called to signal back that
he has heard.
A physician, on visiting London aft
er an interval Of some years, was sur
prised by what seemed to him notice
able increase In the number Of red
haired children.
To celebrate Japanese holiday in
Keorea for the first time the govern
ment distributed 100000 young trees
to be planted throughout the treeless
regions Of that country.
In the midst of alarms from the
Balkans the fact that the city Of Tirno
va, the ancient capital Of Bulgaria, has
been almost completely destroyed by
an earthquake passed almost unnO-
ticed.
|
habit in Annoy, China, has caused
considerable trade In cigars, cigarettes
and foreign wines. Moving picture
shows are also taking the place Of
opium dens.
To solve the problem Of disposing
Of the dead famous German archi-
tect proposes to erect In the chief cities
| {vrNv,N tda nnh ~ rrvI,& nvr
would hold the ashes of 100000 Gre
mated bodies.
So great has become the demand for
whale meat in Japan that there is dan
ger Of scarcity Of whales In that
part Of the Pacific, and the Japanese
government has limited the number Of
whaling vessels.
| A 115 foot lookout tower on the Sit
greaves national forest, Arizona, Just
constructed by forest officers, was
built entirely Of logs without the use
Of hoisting machinery other than ropes
and tackle blocks
The Buffalo herd on the Wichita ma
tional forest, Oklahoma, now numbers
forty-eight. ten calves having been
born this year. When the buffaloes
were introduced on the Wichita in
1907 there were fifteen head.
To protect telegraph poles from rot
ting in the ground new French prac-
tice Is to surround their ends with
earthenware pipes and fill the pipes
with melted resin and sand, which
solidifies and becomes waterproof.
| All German submarine boats have
been equipped with buOys that can be
detached from the deck of a sunken
craft at the end of cable containing
a telephone wire to enable rescuers to
converse with persons within the boat.
Knud Rasmussen, the young Danish
explorer, has made the important dis
covery that the SO called Peary chan
mel at the northern end Of Greenland
does not exist. and that Peary Land 10
not an island, but portion Of Green
land.
Marked progress in Alabama high
schools is reported to the United
States bureau Of education. In 1908
there were so high schools, few of
shem with courses Of more than three
years IN length. Now there are 1872 In.
situations doing high school work, all
but IA Of which have full four year
| courses.
A unique record was recently made
by the Chivers jam concern, the well
known English house. Adjoining the
factory is a strawberry plantation,
which produced the berries for this
years jam. Within the space Of one
hour the Strawberries were picked,
boiled into jam and placed into Jars
ready for packing