Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-06-09
ROUND THE WORLD

France.
Some Of the large Atlantic steamers
have $50 6remen each.
Most Of the type used by Chinese
printers is made In Japan.
In nearly all parts OF Switzerland
women have their hair cut by women.
Greater New York yearly pays $780,
677,O97 to public schoolteachers in sal
aries.
La Gazzetta. founded in 1900 by the
poet Gozzi. is still being published at
Venice.
New York's population is IL per cent
italian, 10 per cent Hebrew and per
cent Polish.
OF the women of twenty-one years
of age and over in this country only
1875 per cent are single.
Investigations have shown that there
are 1900 left handed children in the
Berlin municipal schools.
For caviare, which costs in this
country $40 pound. the Russian fish
ermen get $1.2O per pound.
It is predicted that from 1910 there
will be heavy and increasing short
age in the supply Of rubber.
Two women are serving on the ad-
visory council for medical research ap-
pointed by the English government.
With one end so constructed that 1t
must be broken to get at the contents,
a nonrefillable cigar box has been pat.
ented.
Glass cooking utensils are being
made in an experimental way by a
New York glass manufacturer with
much success.
One Of the unique facts relative to
immigration is that more than $4,000
MISUNDERSTANDING come into this
country since 1904.
Australia avoids orphan asylums by
sending parentless children to private
families, which are paid for their care
until they are fourteen years old.
Persia contemplates improving its
roads under the direction Of Belgian
engineers, and the ancient empire
should soon offer q market for auto
mobiles.
In Australia there are cows enough
for each man. woman and child to
have three each, while in Argentina
there are as many a. Eve to each in
habitant.
1t is suggested that II the consump-
ton Of quinine expands to any greater
extent in India. which already takes
one-sixth Of the worlds supply. the
price will speedily rise.
In the Russian cavalry aluminium
shoes for horses have been tested.
Each test was made with one Alumni
um shoe and three OF iron. In every
test the former outlasted the latter.
The supreme court of Panama has
sustained recent law whereby the
government reserves ownership in
metal mines and deposits of coal and
oil.
One Of New York's leading banks
has declared that every man in its
employ must take vacation, for
which the bank will provide the
money.
Placing a board with two sharp steel
edges across his store window at
night. a Chicago merchant effectively
prevented attacks by window smash
ing burglars.
An English inventor has brought out
a kind of steel which resists the cor
rosion Of smokeless gunpowder, the
chief objection to the use Of that form
Of powder in firearms.
For it's buildings all over the coun-
try, its warships. army posts and
lighthouses. the United States govern
ment every year buys enough coal to
make q pile mile square and ten
feet high.
In ten years kindergartens in the
United States have grown from 3,244,
with 2O5,OOO children. to 1857. en-
rolling 364, 1870 children. according to a
bulletin issued by the United States
bureau Of education.
The Chinese national conservation
bureau is considering reforestation at
the headwaters Of the Yellow river.
The government report shows that this
will ameliOrate the torrents and cause
a more regular flow from the now de-
nuded uplands.
An Australian league is being form
ed. with 100000 capital, to buy land
and convert it into ready made farms
for British immigrants. 1t plans to
erect residences and barns and clear
and fence the land ready for the i'm
migrant to commence farming.
In a fertile section Of Palestine a
tract Of land has been purchased for
the purpose Of forming a Jewish colo
ny. which will cultivate the land along
general lines and serve to demonstrate
what can be done If the country even
tually returns to the Jewish people.
, Europe is the principal customer for
all exported fruits from this country.
except oranges. lemons and raisins.
Germany takes about one-half Of the
dried apples and the United Kingdom
a like proportion of the green apples
exported. Nearly onehalf Of the april
cots went last year to France. Ger
many and the Netherlands. while the
United Kingdom alone took onethird
Of the total.
There are 100000 students enrolled
in professional schools In the United
States this year. according to figures
compiled by the United States bureau
Of education. OF these 5,102 are in
endowed institutions. the remainder IN
institutions supported from public
funds. The various professions are
represented az follows: Theology, TO-