Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1913-08-28
ROUND THE | / /: WORLD.

| ~. NeW#4Ork s leNIIn commissioner nus
started a crusade for pure pies. III Il 4
Philadelphia has 4 savings bank
which has over 1000 women depositors.
Emperor william Of Germany owns
6fty palaces and 5000 suits of clothes,
!, Diamond production in German
Southwest Africa is reported unusually
large. .s s.sl ;.3,. ~ Il ...s II I.
Megaphones are used by teachers on
noisy Fairgrounds In Brooklyn. n T..
to make themselves heard. a. I L
There are nearly 5000 useless gas
lampposts in Providence and 1t {is f1g-
ured that it will cost SIG 900 to remove
them. Is n .%& 5c ~ Z
i A Chicago artist has discovered that
he can satisfactorily mix paints at
night by wearing violet colored spec
taeles. r. I'M .@ssS# tf.zs r,a.
A German scientist has produced
coal from several substances by sub
hitting them to intense heat under
pressure. z4}.ls ii3::<>5+. ..s%.. Il
A Canadian electric light company
employs a Chinese solicitor to intro
duce electric irons to the Celestial
laundrymen. h' .N
The University of California English
club recently gave performance Of
Twelfth Night on the summit Of
Mount Tamalpais.
and equipped fourteen automobiles for
patrol work against outlaw bands in
the interior of Mongolia.
An apparatus invented by a Paris
scientist matches chickens and pro-
tects them from all microbes until
they reach desired age.
A st. Louis (Mo) woman insisted
the other day on giving ceremonial
funeral to her f1fteen-year-old pet cat,
using a mahogany casket.
Coffee, crude rubber. OK hides, cheese
pepper and Benedictine were the prin-
cipal exports from Havre, France. to
the United States last year.
The Balkan war has brought about
rope because of the big demand for
wood for ammunition boxes. ...~..
Tiny but efficient electric lamps to-
be worn on their caps by bandsmen at
night and supplied with current by
storage batteries have been invented.
Cooperative house building is being
tried out in Hongkong in an effort to
house the steadily increasing popula-
ton and at the same time to reduce
rents.
According to prominent financial
journal of Paris, the consumption Of
coffee in the different countries of the
world varies in inverse ratio to the
import duty. = Il
l. A will has been found under eleven
thicknesses of wall paper by workmen
engaged in stripping the walls of a
house adjoining ) the Royal Marine
hotel, Cowes.
The total Indian population of the
Dominion of Canada on March 81 last
was 1O4.956. In addition there were
1900 Eskimos, making a native popu-
lation Of 1O9,556. p,
The proposed mid-Scotland canal, it
is now stated, will be 20 miles long, SO
feet deep and 148 feet wide at the
bottom, flooded with sea water, with
only sea gates at each end, through
which may pass the largest battleship.
/ Anton Dartleyand, Turk, spoke
! English with German accent when ap-
plying for citizenship papers in
Queens, N, Y: "vell, I live by der Col
lege Point, init Germans, for. twendty-
five years under / learn dere to spike
dose languages !
Modern laws Of France help the
workingmen to buy homes at a small
! price and to rent quarters at desirable
rates, it being recognized that this
form Of philanthropy is potent
factor in combating both race suicide
and alcoholism. r. .% = -.
| Among the gifts to- the kaiser's
daughter at her wedding was a
clock sent by the city Of Hamelin. 1t
is made from wine cask sawed in
two. The hours are champagne corks.
The hands are corkscrews and the
weights are bottles flied with cham
payne. s$ ID .&s;< '#5st i
A great typhoon in 1912 did damage
estimated at 81, 900 in Nagoya har-
Dor and at $750, 900 in Yokkaichi har-
Dor. In both these harbors extensive
Improvements were in progress at the
time, and these were set back ct least
year. Goods for America are car
r1ed by lighters to Yokkaichi, and
there placed aboard ocean going YES
sells. 4 S7>,.s a. 81. I, H., - '4%
An agricultural colony in Palestine
has just applied to the United States
forest service for help in planting
trees to bind the drifting sands 81 the
Mediterranean. Tie colony is near Jaf-
IA, or Yafa, the ancient Joppa of the
Bible, and there ia, being Developed s.
connection with it q seaside resort,
with hotel, villas, bath houses and gar
dens. t.g, . Nj s .1,s. & IL & -. 49, MA
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