The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-15
ROUND The WORLD

In street accidents in 1912 $50 per-
sons were killed in New York.
Commerce of Hawaii in 1912 was
S15, 100000 greater than in 1911.
German manufacturers of velvet
have combined in a huge syndicate.
DR.. W. c. Woodward is advocating
open air schools for the District of |
Columbia.
Siberia is expected to be an impor- |
tant source of the worlds food at no |
distant day.
The naval militia is now organized |
In TWENTY-FIVE states and the District |
of Columbia.
Washington will hereafter grade sal |
aries of public school teachers accord |
ing to their experience.
New York's department of education
last year employed 1876 lecturers, who
delivered 5,573 lectures.
Enlargement of the arteries is now
cured by the use of a glass tube in
serted in the affected part
| Nearly 100000 is now on deposit in
school savings banks in LAO schools
throughout the United States.
In the last six months of 1912 there
were constructed in the United States
791 boats Of an aggregate tonnage of
163,5S4
More than $250OOO has been left I'M
claimed by relatives in the cases Of
persons found dead in New York in the
last year.
North Carolina sends much dogwoOd
and persimmon lumber to England,
where it is made into shuttles for the
cotton mills.
The Chinese official newspaper, which
has been published for 1900 years, has
been put out of business by the new ad-
ministratiOn.
Men of northern China, as a rule,
continue to wear their cues, whereas in
southern China nearly every cue has
been discarded.
Attempts are being made in Mexico
to make il impossible to set railway
bridges on fire by using fireproof mate
rial in building.
Four more national bird reservations
were established 10y the United States
government last year. making the total
number fifty-six.
The government of Uruguay has en-
gagged an agricultural expert from the
United States to organize an agricul-
turaI school in the republic.
Paper from which gas nantes can he
made. instead of using the more ex-
| pensive fabrics, has been invented 10y
t an Italian scientist.
, Official figures show Africa led the
world in the production of gold last
5 year. with the United States second
! Australasia third and Mexico fourth.
new method of preserving OF
! paintings. recently patented in Ger
l many, consists of inclosing the entire
picture in a case having a glass from
j and filled with nitrogen.
Cow testing associations in German!
Il have been established only since 1906
but control more than 10000 cows
> The associations are intended to in
crease the milk capacity Of German
II cows.
Are shorthand writing and note TAX
. ing doomed in courts Of justice? Al
G Australian judge has just declared, 8
c believe the day is not distant when tn
q monograph will be regularly used I
+ take down evidence"
Last year the cornfelds of the Unit
!. ed States yielded the greatest crop i
II the history Of this country. 1t reache
the enormous amount of 3,169.OOO,O0
n bushels, valued at S1.759OO0OOO. TIL
h United States raises three-quarters G
? the worlds crop of corn.
IS More than 100000 gray squirrel
v were killed last year in Siberia fC
lie their fur. The tails alone weighe
ye over twenty-one tons. The animal iii
e uring next in the fur trade of Asiati
lie Russia in point of numbers was tn
ar white hare, which contributed 1900
ic 600 skins.
IN New South Wales has adopted IL
le California idea of, blowing at nigh
ID For this purpose two powerful acct.
I'd lene headlights are attached to tt
traction engine which draws the plow
IN and the ground is so we'll and brillian
ed ~ lighted that the operator can wOI
IL over the field quite as we'll as by da,
ed light.
There are now in use in New YoI
as and it's immediate vicinity ten autom
bile hearses as against four less tha
OF a year ago, and there are number
er livery and undertaking establishment
al equipped to furnish complete autom
ey bile funerals including, besides an a
u tomobile hearse, black painted limo
'e- sine automobiles in place of hOrs
Au drawn carriages.
Practically no dressed beef was e
We ported from the United States duriI
the last six months in 1912. Up to
few years ago American beef was so
rs in great quantity in the markets
ne practically every nation of the worl
IT, and the international supply of be