The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-01-16
ROUND THE WORLD

France has live doctors 10 each 1O.OOtl
Df population.
India imports birdcages from the
United States.
Colon. Panama, has arranged to have
a taxicab service.
The wealth of the United States is
estimated at $13O.OOO.OOO.0OO.
The bread eaters Of New York city
devour daily 2.465. 753 loaves.
L. +. Duncan of London. aged ninety
two. has lived nearly fifty years on
two meals a day.
New York now has a municipal COM
plant bureau, whittier citizens may
resort to "kick."
This years crop Of Formosan teas is
reported to be better than previously
in many eason
It has been estimated that 4,7OS. O0O,.
600 wood screws are used in the Unit
ed States each year.
Asbestos deposits throughout a re-
gion approximately 2 by 4 miles in ex-
tent have been discovered in Natal.
A man arrested in Paris recently was
wearing five waistcOats, five pairs Of,
trousers, two Of socks and two of
stockings. n
Boston's new custom house will be
sos feet high and has been designed
virtually to crown the city's pyramidai
sky line.
According to the Canadian Forestry
association, so per cent Of Canada Is
capable Of growing nothing but timber
crops.
Individual glass rooms, with private
telephones. will be provided patients
recovering from infectious diseases In
a new Chicago hospital.
Willow is the highest of British
woods. A cubic foot of it weighs but
thirty pounds. A cubic foot of box
weighs t%ifty-seven pounds.
King George V. of England has or
dered Viscount Knollys to w'i:e an
official biography Of the late King Ed
ward.
More than 400 patents shave been is
sued by the United States for devices
intended to harness the power OF sa'
waves.
The absence of tunnels on the deck
of the Imperator is accounted for by
the fact that the ventilation is dom"
mechanically.
1t is proposed to award hero medals
to these who save victims of electrical
shcok. asphyxiation and similar fatal
ties by resuscitation. -...
Thomas. Harvey has retired ut seven
ty-fve after serving forty-fve years
as a policeman in New York. He will
draw a pension of 500 a year.
An a~eronautical map of the entire
world on a scale of one to 100000 was
planned ut the recent international
geographical congress ut Rome.
After seven years of effort an Amer
lean expert has established in Uruguay
one Of the largest and best equipped
veterinary colleges in the world.
Although Belgium has reduced the
working day of its coal miners to nine
hours. the enforcement of the law has
not apparently affected the produc-
tion. .
A novel feature Of London's electrf-
cal restaurant is the standing invita-
tion for all patrons to visit the kitchen
at INV time and watch the preparation
of food.
Eighteen hundred Japanese emf
grants left for Brazil recently. This
makes the total in that country 4,SOO,
all Of whom are engaged on coffee
plantations in Sac Paulo.
A solar physics laboratory is to be
erected in New Zealand. at Nelson.
The site will probably be on a summit
known as the Fringe, which has an
elevation of $500 feet above sea level.
Tests having shown that recon
noissance work cannot be effectively
done at greater heights than 2,e0O
feet, the French army has decided that
its war %aeroplanes must be arm0red
against rifle bullets.
Delhi has q population of about 1885,
600 people. The permanent population
will probably be increased by the resi-
dence there of 5000 or 1000 govern
ment officials when the new govern
ment offices are ready.
Some Of the larger dry goods houses
of this country are said to expend an
uually as much as 100000 in the prep
aration Of samples. which are sent to
their patrons throughout the country
from which to make selections OF