The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-09-12
ROUND THE World

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American CASTLE soap Is sold extern
sively In Havre, France.
Switzerland now owns the st. Go
thard tunnel and railway.
Applications for patents In Great
Britain last year numbered 30,0S9.
Montreal police authorities favor the
proposal to add several policewomen
to the force.
Australia's public debt now stands at
81 $50, 089,000. The annual interest bill
reaches 81, 485, 150.
The coal handling machinery for the
Panama canal coaling stations will be
operated by electricity.
The output Of phosphate rock In
Florida In 1912 was 2,579, 1896 long tons,
an increase of s5,2o3 tons over 1911
production.
Germany uses $4,000 tons Of Amer
lean lubricating oils annually. tn 10
tai consumption Of such oils reaches
$4,000 tons.
The elevators Of Manhattan carry
100000 passengers every day, Jet
they killed only thirty eight people
In ten years.
The city Of Bergen has the largest
merchant feet In Norway and has YES
sells engaged In time charter in every
part Of the world. ....
The shoe product of the United
States exceeds that Of England, Ger
many. France and Italy, with a few
more countries thrown in.
Russia has under consideration four
competing projects for the construc-
ton Of the White Sea railway from the
city Of Archangel to western Siberia.
During last year 41,620 books were
published In japan, while Germany,
the most bookish Of European nations,
had only 81 ,2S1 volumes to her credit
There are PAT newspapers published
in South Africa. in which $7,50O.OOO is
invested. They give employment to
1000 Europeans and $50 colored people.
Within the last thirty years the popu-
lation Of Jerusalem has increased great
ly. It included in 1880 only 10000
Jews, whereas in the present popula
tion of over $4,000 there are no less
than $4,000 Jews.
The second wedding Of the thirteen
year-old daughter of Haricharan Chalk
abarty, the first Hindu widow who
has ever remarked, took place at Chit
TAGGING, India. Her first husband died
when she was six years old.
For quickly raising to the surface
Of the water a disabled submarine an
Englishman has invented a buoy to
be released from the boat, carrying
up hose through which air can be
pumped to I'll and lift the craft.
The fresh water lakes In the central
part Of Tasmania have been particular
~ suited to the American sebago, or
nonseagoing variety Of salmon. A.
growth from two ounces to four pounds
In twenty-one months has been noted.
II an English engineers plan to run
an electric railroad up the side Of
Mount Popocatapetl. in Mexico. be car
Red out, passengers will experience
. change In temperature from 70 de-
gress above zero to 10 below within
two hours.
The Chinese have invented a new
character or sign for empire" A
square with the sign Of king inside
was their old character or sign for
Kingdom" but now empire is rep
resented by square with the sign Of
people inside.
Although banana raising is not very
profitable In Cuba because Of cost Of
mule back transportation. planting
goes on briskly. partly because the
farmer needs the banana trees to give
the necessary shade to his young coffee
md cacao trees.
DR.. Henry Nachtel, founder Of the
New York night medical service. has
lust received from the French min
ster Of war the military medal of the
German war Of 1870. In which
10 served as assistant surgeon major
attached to the northern army.
There Is steady decrease In silk
.ocoons in France. The large bounty
,aid by the government to foster the
has not been sufficient to raise
he average. France may send COM
mission to Japan to study the silk
rowing conditions there, as the jap
lnese silk crop increases every year.
Russia's department Of agriculture
las prepared q law prohibiting the
culture Of the poppy in the Trans
,aikal, Amur and Maritime Provinces.
me cultivation Of the plant Is to be .
criminal offense, as will be also the
Of opium or the storing or /
It, and the purchase Of
ltensils for smoking opium.
Letter boxes are used on suburban
treet cars In three American cities
)es Moines, Ia, Burlington. Ia, and |,
irand Rapids, Mich. This gives the
uburban residents chance to send
nail to the postoflce every hour. II
he car IL signaled for the purpose !,
Z putting mail In the box. the sender
, required to pay the conductor the
minimum carfare. ....-..
Julio Lecaros Navas, now In Lima.
'eru, on a tour of South America COL
setting data regarding the old Spanish
antilles, Is director Of the Heraldic
cademy Of Madrid. He will also
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