The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1914-02-06
ROUND THE WORLD

New York is giving street Washers
workhouse terms.
There are only twenty women among
the 900 advertising canvassers in Lon
don.
Professor r. w. Wood of Johns Hop
kins university says the craters of the
moon are full of sulphur.
An experiment station for the study
of fax cultivation and manufacture has
been established at Moscow.
There are 1897 1913 100000 tons of
coal in the world. according to an esti-
mate made by the Coal Age.
Philadelphia will rigidly enforce the
weights and measures regulations in
efforts to reduce cost of living.
The total amount of money reposing
on the oceans bottoms in the shape Of
submarine cables is $25O,OO0,O00.
Retail dealers in Hongkong are dis
covering the advantages of window
dressing after the American plan.
A mine, now exceedingly rich, was
sold by it's native African owner for
a pair of trousers and a cricket cap.
In buying soaps the natives of India
are guided by strong scents and pretty
colors than by the lathering qualities.
The Germans will mount 10000 can
die power searchlights on some of their
airships to illuminate the enemy's
camp.
The largest electrical egg Matching
plant in the world is in England, hav-
! ing an average output Of 5000 chick
ems a week.
Cleveland women are planning a
chamber of commerce which will be
the first womens chamber Of COM
merce in the world.
Experiments on the Philippine island
of Mindanao seem to indicate that the
finest qualities of rubber can be pro-
duced there profitably.
The first apartment house in Amer
lea was built about 1860 in East Eight
eenth street, in New York city, and is
still standing in good condition.
The worlds largest stone statue, a
figure of q patron saint 24O feet long
is being carved from rock overlook
ing the sea on an island in Japan.
A church organ has recently beer
made in Belgium which is composed
entirely of paper, the pipes being rolls
of cardboard The sound is sweet ant
powerful.
In Afghanistan barbed wire is useC
very extensively for defensive pur
poses, especially where there is danger
al JXyl M, "a moi phhOrinf
tribesmen.
In 1900 there were siXty-two bee
cattle in the United States for eacl
!. 100 persons of population Now ther'
are thirty-seven cattle to each 100 o
population.
) AS a universal danger signal Den
yer firm has designed and copyrighted
signs bearing a human hand across
the palm of which appear the word
safety First"
An iron monument in the form of
stepped pyramid surmOunted by
globe ninety feet high has been erect
ed at Leipzig to symbolic the German
iron and steel industry.
Under the conditions of the will o
Mrs. Thomas Barclay of Glasgow
Scotland. all widows in Perth VIII
have attained the age of fifty year
will be entitled to pension.
Feed makes a great difference no
only in the taste of cheese, but in it
, keeping quality. 1t has been foun
q that imported cheese from cows fed
, grass will keep in India, while fodde
fed cheese will not.
|, During the fiscal year 1913 service
e in saving of life and property wer
: rendered and acts of heroism perform
ed by employees of the United State
lighthouse service on vessels or at st;
lions on ninety-twO occasions.
r A London medical journal recent
J. published some interesting facts col
q corning walnuts as foods. Accordin
e to this authority, thirty large walnl
/ kernels contain as much food value 6
: two and three-quarters pounds of lea
L beef"
y What is claimed to be the most con
. plete card index system in the worl
n is that owned by Mrs. Elmer Black {
!, New York. There is not an item (
i interest in any department of hi
= home that she cannot refer to in
minute.
The tuberculosis statistics of &c
many show a great reduction in tt
4 mortality which has been particular
r marked in hospitals and homes fl
d consumptives, having dropped with
d sixteen years from thirty-one to twel'
IS per thousand.
% The Elizabeth, the British battlesh
- recently launched, is the first warsh
)" built to burn oil exclusively. Fo1
others of the same type are now I
> the stocks. They will all carry fifte'
,e inch guns and rapid fire cannon So
=. cially designed to shoot at aeroplane
A machine has been designed
France to make all the noises requir
n, for llSe in theaterS and moving Dictu