Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-06-19
ROUND THE WORLD

There are 1922 donkeys in. Spain. T..
Cleveland will soon run street cars
on Euclid avenue.
There are more islands In Lake Hu-
ron than In any other known lake.
One playground in New York city
occupies a site valued at $1,S00.000.
Trinity church corporation. New
York. now has assets valued at $751;
2O4,512.
Austria's eight universities and two
Independent theological schools have
31.646 students.
In Asiatic Russia there is considera.
BILE consumption Of the meat Of don
keys and camels.
In Great Britain the percentage Of
insanity is increasing faster than the
growth Of population.
1t will require 10000 horsepower Of
electrical energy daily to run the Pan
anna Pacific exposition.
More than S1OO,OOO.OOO has been
spent in bringing and keeping the port
Of Liverpool up to date.
Women and girls who pass through
Chicago alone will hereafter have the
assistance of po!icewomen.
DR.. Pactel Of Paris says he has found
a paralytic running an engine on one
Of the French government railroads.
Gerhardt Klausen was recently SEN
fenced ut Barmen. Prussia. on three
separate counts to terms Of imprison-
ment totalng l75 years.
The first electric plant within the
arctic circle will be erected at a mis-
sion Mt Point Hope. Alaska, the power
being supplied by windmill.
An English aviator has equipped his
machine with an acetylene fare. which
would burst into flame and form a sig
nal should he fall into the sea.
At the beginning Of last year there
were in this country in actual opera
ton 1897 national banks. representing
paid in capital Of $1.O46.O12.5sO.
In the city Of Manila there is noted
a rapid spread Of public dance halls
and their increasing patronage by SOL
diers and by sailors from visiting war
ships.
For reading directories printed In
small type there has been invented q
magnifying glass that obscures all but
the line that 10 being read, to prevent
confusion.
The oyster beds Of California are 10.
Gated chiefly in San Francisco bay;
those Of Oregon in Yaquina bay; those
OF Washington In Willapa bay and
Gray's harbor.
In the British house Of commons
there are only seven members between
twenty one and thirty, only three be.
tween eighty and ninety and only one
more than ninety.
In the north Pacific ocean a new
volcanic island has appeared in the
BONN group. three miles east by south
Of lwojima island. It is Eve miles In
circumference and attains a height Of
1000 feet.
Lord Kitchener. the British consul
general for Egypt. purposes to con-
struct comprehensive scheme Of
drainage in the delta of the Nile.
Eventually about 100000 acres will be
reclaimed.
Following an annual custom. a Phil.
adelphia firm is giving away. without
any strings attached. afty pianos to
families in which there are people Of
musical ability but unable to buy the
Instruments
Katmai volcanoes dust cloud, which
caused a general haziness Of the atmos.
phere over much Of the northern hem.
isphere. reaching a marked maximum
in August. 1912. appears to have now
practically disappeared.
The long proposed Crocodile river
(South AfricaD irrigation scheme is like.
~ to be realized. the cost being est
mated at not less than $3.31O.OOO. The
area brought into condition for cult
walton will be $4,000 acres.
As the Greek government Is Of opin'