The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-09-22
ROUND THE WORLD

feminine fashion center.
China Will exhibit machinery at the
San Francisco exposition.
France in 1913 had 552, 2,9e0 donkeys
and mules and 3,230,700 horses.
Chilean postoffices last year handled
75,43704I letters and postcards.
Chinese are resorting to beans to
replace poppy culture, now illegal.
American consumption of alcoholic
drinks in 1913 totaled 81, 4,6O7,519.
New York property destroyed by
fire last year was valued at 81 ,467,9
Brooklyn tax values are this year
boosted $12,000000 over those of last
year.
| II is estimated that the total number
| of motor vehicles in the world is about
2,226,OOO.
There were 100000 Slavs in the
| United States before the European war
broke out
India's financial difficulties have
caused serious embarrassment to the
pearl market.
Munster. Ireland, has crop area of
1881, ,207 acres and a population Of
1895, ,495 persons.
Manchuria is making new paint out
of the bean oil that is produced there
In tremendous quantities.
| According to the last census report
there are 81, ,S15 illiterate males Of vot-
ing age In New York city.
1t has been estimated that every
square mile of the ocean is inhabited
by 120,0O0,O00 living things.
Sawdust and chloride OF magnesium
are used In Germany to form an ex-
tremely hard artificial wood.
Much success has attended an Eng
lish doctors experiments in curing lead
poisoning with an electrolytic bath.
The crater of an ancient volcano, In
which there are numerous hot springs.
is utilized as a sanitarium in Japan.
japanese are producing more than
20.000,0O0 tons of coal year from
mines in Japan and south Manchuria,
Police Judge Peffie of st. Louis gen.
orally fines both sides when neighbor-
hood disputes are brought before him.
New York may be compelled to de-
stroy 200 tons of old police records for
want of place in which TO store them.
The smallest apartment houses are
those occupied by bees. In a cubic foot
of honeycomb there are about 1900
cells.
Uruguay. much of which was for
merry treeless, within few years has
planted more than 100000 forest
trees.
The total toy production of the world
yearly is valued at $52, 100000, Of
which $40.220,OO0 falls to European
countries.
The Eskimo pays his doctor his fee
as soon as he arrives. If the patient
recOvers it is kept; If not, it is re-
turned.
The approved form of lifeboat is
now thirty-two ton, motor propelled
and capable of accommodating $50
persons.
Ecuador will soon have a govern
ment tobacco monopoly. The net pro-
ceeds are to be used In constructing
roads and railways.
There are in Ireland 34.S89 holdings
not exceeding one acre. The largest
number of holdings-152 ,299-are of be-
tween FIVE and fifteen acres.
The United States produces twenty
five tons of coal every year for every
average family OF five persons, though
many families use none at all.
1t has been proved by actual expert
ment that small rodents of arid regions
which eat dry seeds can live from two
to three years without water.
Government experts are inyestigat-
ing Swedens alum shale deposits in
the hope of obtaining an Illuminating
oil. sulphur and other products.
In ten years the fountain, stylo-
graphic and gold pen industry of the
United States has almost trebled,
while that of the steel pen has doubled.
Natives OF the eastern slopes of the
Andes in Bolivia scatter the juice of a
tree on streams to render fish insensi-
bic so they can be caught in the hands.
1t will cost Australia about $25. 900,
900 to open the Murray river to nayi-
CATION and TO construct an irrigation
system that will develop 100000 acres
OF land.
To lessen the smoke and gas in
tunnels Swiss railroads are equipping
their locomotive stacks with lids to
be closed when a tunnel is entered,
steam being exhausted beneath the en-
gines.
More than 90 per cent of the timber
in the Philippines Is owned by the gov
ernment and is worked through con.
cessions and licenses. as no land more
valuable for timber than for agricul,
ture can he bought
A seventy-twO inch rejecting tele-
Tcope now under construction for the
Canadian government is to be placed
pn Little Saanich mountain, near Vic
ioria. Il. C. This site was chosen aft
or prolonged investigation of atmos
pheric conditions in different parts OF
The dominion
German stamp collectors were de