Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-06-24
ROUND THE WORLD

Popcorn has found a new market, tt
Is said, on the boulevards of Paris
British capitalists have begun lum-
bering operations in the Philippines.
Ninety per cent of the farms Of this
country are said to be without any
sheep.
Umbrellas are in great demand in the
Netherlands, where light rains are fire.
quent.
One Of the principal byproducts Of
the national forests of Japan is mush-
rooms.
More than a billion dollars of capital
is now invested in this country in cold
storage.
The English city of Sheffield has 400
concerns engaged in the manufacture
Of steel.
Italy has taken to wearing carriers.
Ten years ago the custom was almost
unknown among men. -. - - ..:,,
= Dec 10 is the centenary Of the birth
of Edwin NJ Stanton, who was Lin
coins secretary Of war.
Japanese hatmakers are making a
WV
South American panama.
Over 375,OOO,OOO behring's have been
landed in the harbor at Great Var
mouth in a single season.
A new English portable vacuum
cleaner can be used as a seat, table,
cabinet, music stool or pedestal.
Sweden is to send an expedition to
hot 70
remain in the far south five years.
The water of the Swiss city Of Basic
is so injurious to the teeth that mu-
nicipaI dental clinic has been estab-
lished.
New Zealand breeds between 23,000,-
900 and 100000 sheep, of which
about IS per cent are annually eX-
ported.
Mothers are equal guardians with
the father over children in Kansas,
Colorado, California, Oregon and Wash
ingtOn.
Much interest has been aroused in
England by the rumor that Keir Har-
dy, NJ. P, may possibly be succeeded
in the craftsmanship of the Independ-
ent Labor party by woman.
The forest service is compiling a new
volume table for calculating the board
contents of standing western yellow
pine trees in the southwest 1t is based
on actual measurements of 5000 trees
The present American merchant ma
rine has a tonnage, according to cen
sus statistics of 7,SS6,51S tons, ranking
second among the nations of the world,
Great Britain being first and Germany
third.
The Grimes in the German army
last year may thus be summarized
Five hundred desertiOns from the col
ors, 1000 thefts and 33S cases Of i'll
treatment of privates by noncommis.
stoned officers.
The tonnage of the merchant vessels
launched throughout the world in 1915
showed a large increase over the pre-
ceding year and, in fact, over any pre-
Tious year, being estimated at 8, 332 ,O0C
tons, as against 100000 tons for the
vessels launched in 1912.
An Association of Neglected Wives
has been formed at Schoenebeck, or
Tie h1U0, 10 GSIdUl1SH Il t1ll0 l1lulL lOl
husbands visits to beer houses an(
cafes. If necessary the wives will form
a militia to remove all husbands found
on the premises after II p. N.
Denmark and Sweden are busy will
plans for a channel tunnel between
the two countries. The greatest deptl
at which the tunnel will run will b.
1hnu+ 100 nd ic,n cd ~
the undertaking can be completed il
five years at a cost of about $4,000,
600.
The Berlin municipal council hav
approved of a scheme for setting asid
sum Of 100000 marks for the pur
pose Of making small loans to citizen
whose means have become temperate,
straitened through no fault Of thei
own, but owing to the present econom
ic conditions.
Experiments conducted by the Uni
ed States bureau Of entomology prov
that the newly Matched cateruIlars G
the gypsy moth may be blown, unde
favorable conditions, a distance Of ST
miles or more. Thus the wind is a
important factor IN the spread of tn!
destructive pest.
Of 431 American Rhodes scholar
who have left Oxford university ,
take up their life work, only eleve
have remained in England, accordin
to the recent report of the Rhode
scholarship trust. The fear that Ores
Britain would absorb the America
students is thus seen to be unfounded
Denmark is about one-third the 81,
Of the state of Wisconsin and hi
some 5,434, 900 fruit trees. This nun
Der comprises apple, pear, plum an
cherry trees. The apple trees FREEDOM
nate, their number being given {
2,135,OOO: pear trees, 945,OOO; plu1
bearing trees, 1,161. 200, and cher1
trees, 100000.
A notary named Sauter, who die
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