The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-11-05
ROUND The WORLD


Canada's total debt ID $4sS, 232.555.
Greece Ia a heavy lumber importer.
There are 100000 slavs in the
United States.
New Zealand hotel employees work
six days Q week.
Wild animals work great havoc in
India's wheatnelds.
The United States has 228,000 Bo.
hemians and Moravians. 80.
Roumania before the war considered
tunneling under the Danube.
Los Angeles property is valued at
$l.059.O 75.640 for taxation purposes. :
5Bost6n's tax rate for 1915 has been
fixed at $3.50, an advance Of 20 cents.
Ninety per cent of the farms of this
country are said to be without any
sheep. II.
The United States this year awards
$780, 1862 to militia Of the various
states.
Australia last year received 14O,25l
new settlers. OF these 122.443 were
British.
St. Louis theaters have just spent
$4,000 for fire prevention and safety
devices.
Baku, Caucasus, now has a rpopula-
ton Of ,217. 1853, of whom 93,9S2 are
females. a.
The beautiful overhanging sterns Of
the modern vessels are being replaced
by the Cruiser stern"
Recent irrigation works have added
10000 acres of arabic land to the
crop producing resources Of Spain.
The only two great European capitals
that have never been occupied by a
foreign foe are London and St Peters.
burg.
Professor Habbite Of Paris has hun
dreds Of varieties Of insects in his
home In small wire cages. He studies
them.
Both fine lace and strong ropes are
made from the Siberian nettle. In
Sweden nettles are cultivated for cattle
fodder.
From the seeds Of the castor oil plant
a German chemist has extracted what
Is said to be the most powerful poison
known,
Spanish railroads are conducting en-.
ergetic campaigns of education to i'm.
prove agricultural conditions along
their lines.
The island on which is situated the
Eddystone lighthouse is the smallest
bit Of all the year around inhabited
land in the world.
According to government statistics,
America takes 80 per cent Of the
cheese (mostly from goats milky ex.
ported from Greece.
More than half the worlds popula.
ton live in the tropics Of the old world.
Under British rule alone are over 325,.
100000 tropical natives. NJ.
i The Italianicity Of Milan has changed
from gas street lighting TO- electricity.
generating its current by Alpine water
falls. nearly 100 miles away.
In Switzerland there has been In
vented an electrically operated coin in
the slot machine for cleaning the sides
and soles Of a persons shoes.
Amber IL the mineralized resin Of
the pines which once covered the
plains Of northern Europe. The best
is found in northern Germany.
The newest idea in theater construc-
ton is the hidden orchestra, which is
located under the floor Of the house,
between the stage and the auditorium
Hostilities once broke out between
Sweden and Poland because in an off,
cial dispatch the king Of Sweden's
name was followed by only two ct
ceteras as against the king Of Poland's
three.
Western Australia produces more
gold than any American state. sends
more pearls to Europe than any other
country except Ceylon and is said to
have the richest belt Of hardwood tim.
Der in the world.
The practicability has been demon
strated of constructing a bridge on the
rocky reef called Adams bridge, which
connects the island Of Ceylon with the
mainland Of India. The distance is
twenty-five miles.
As the result Of the lowest Nile re-
corded for century some 100000
acres Of productive land in Egypt re-
NAMED unwatered last year. The rice
crop was most affected and was al
most q total failure.
The municipal board Of Manila has
passed an ordinance providing that all
buildings constructed in the city here
after must be ratproof. This measure
10 for safeguarding the public health
against bubonic plapue -