The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-09-11
ROUND THE WORLD

Paris, France. contains only one oak
tree.
Sweden claims a population of $685..
$50 persons.
Spain last year imported .2,7OO,O 900
tons of coal.
Baltimore law school will not accept
women students.
Belgrade, capital of Servia, has 1OO.-
600 inhabitants.
Baltimore's public debt will soon
reach 500, 100000.
The steel trust spends $75O,OOO a
year in safety devices.
Policemen in San Francisco now
have n day off u week.
Kansas City is planning a municipal,
farm for ome prisoners.
In Tokyo the number of unemployed
frequently exceeds 100000.
The United States Osteopathic as
ISOLATION has 1000 members.
Seventy-ive per cent of the trade Of
Egypt is with British possessions.
The personnel of the British navy is
about double that of any other navy
in the world.
Munster. Ireland, has a crop area of
1,22S7,2O7 acres and a population Of
1,O35,495 persons.
Dairen Leased territory, China, has
an Of 1921 square miles and a
population of 517,147.
John Burns, eighty-four, for twenty
seven years a park laborer in New
York, is nov homeless and destitute.
Three million dollars has been spent
to bring the power Of q waterfall nine
ty miles to Bombay for electric light
and power purposes.
A single stroke of lightning in the
Belgian Kongo killed nine men and
women and severely injured thirty-two
other persons, two Of whom died later.
There is a plan to safeguard Manila
against the longest possible dry season
by building high up on the Montalban
watershed a two billion gallon reser-
vOir.
The Washington National museum
coin and medal collection of some
5000 pieces includes several Chinese
coins of the earliest type, dating back
to about 1854 B. C.
Over 10000 letters in reply to in
quiries from all Owe the state were
written by the faculty members of the
Agricultural college, University of Wis
consin, during the past year.
The largest car ferry to ply on salt
water in the world is nearing compile
ton at Philadelphia and 500 after the
end Of the year will begin service be-
tween Key West and Havana.
That he can produce one horsepower
for each pound his engine weighs is
the claim of the French inventor of a
motor depending upon the explosive
force of gunpowder for power.
From the waters Of the northwest
coast Of Western Australia a total Of
25,440 hundredweight of mother-of-
pearl shell was fshed at an average
selling price last year of $3.50 per
ton.
Sunshine. next to pure air, is held to
be the most valuable adjunct Of nature
for the cure of tuberculosis. Although
cures have been made in cloudy re-
gions, sunshine seems to give moral
help and, other things being equal, is
much preferred.
Investigations by the geographical
survey Of the erosion of numerous
drainage basins of the United States
show that the surface of the country
is being worn away at the rate Of about
an inch in 700 years.
The Philippine Islands produce ap-
proximately 100000 gallons of alco-
hol yearly. Almost all Of this is made
from the sap Of the nipa palm that
grows in great abundance, in various
swamps Of the country.
Ground cork and a binding material
have been formed by a French inven-
tor into a cover for bottles that guards
them against breakage and keeps their
contents at a uniform temperature
without using q vacuum.
Until quite recently the operators of
hosting engines at work on tall build
ings were guided by hand signals, but
there is now a successful electrical sys-
TEN by which the foreman controls the
engine by touch buttons in a belt.
State monopolies and undertakings
in Japan yield an annual revenue of
about $64,O0O.OOO, of which $25. 100000
comes from posts, telegraphs and tele-
phones; $25,OOO,OOO profits from tobac.
co, $5,6OO,O0O from salt and $5,OO0,OOO
from forests.
There are large tracts Of land in In.
lia-such as the deserts OF Sind and
he southwest Punjab-which r prac-
dcally useless, but which to an impor-
tant extent are now being opened up
10 agriculture by big irrigation schemes.
These works are Of three classes
wells, tanks and canals.
Private capital invested In timber
lands. mills, logging ~railronu. and 9th
err forms Of equipment In this country
reach an enormous aggregute. and the
lumber industry, which. employs $780,
GOO persons and has an annual output
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