The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-08-19
ROUND THE WORLD

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| OF 5000 cigarmakers in Italy 10000
Ire women.
Spain has an area of nearly 100000
square miles.
Ceylon has 100000 acres in cocoa
nut plantations.
Negroes own 1888 farms, valued at
s27, 7Gs,750. in Missouri
Germany imports envelope sealing
| machines from America.
Albatross bone is taking the place of
ivory for many purposes.
Sandalwood oil supply comes prin-
| cipally from southern India.
Or. ]. w. Jackson of Chicago says
crime in boys is due to disease.
The United States annually drinks
over 1851 100000 gallons of coffee
There are 1,4I2 pensioners of the
Mexican war of ls46-S still on the rolls
Fifty thousand combinations are pos
sible with new combination paddock.
The United States is this year spend
ing $lO,000,000 for new church build
ings.
Philadelphia viii put glass case
| around the Grant cabin in Paramount
park.
This country annually consumes $50
| pounds of wheat and wheat -four per
capita.
Wizard Edison says he expects to
solve the problem Of securing electric
power directly from coal.
Several central western roads are to
build bathhouses for cattle that I'M
pleasant odors may be avoided.
When hydroaeropane fell into
Swedish waters submarine boat div
cd under It and brought it to shore un-
injured.
Italy is drafting and will enforce
n series of regulations covering the
width OF wheel rims TO be allowed on
highways.
The Venezuelan government has de
cided TO use 1 per cent OF the import
duties collected for fund for sani-
tary purposes.
The water in an old disused tin mine
at Ponsanooth, Cornwall, has been
discovered to possess strong radio-ac-
tive properties.
The ROumanian government has com
mcnced work ON a tunnel under the
Danube river 20 connect with territory
recently acquired
\ Russian publication has just put
out its one hundrcdth issue after many
difficulties. Twenty-Five of the previ-
Gus issues were confiscated for sedi-
tious articles.
Fifteen million rats have been killed
as part of the preventive measures
against the spread of plague made by
the metropolitan police board Of the
city Of Tokyo.
Because OF food OF perpetual mo-
ton patent applications the United
states patent office has decided to de.
cline to receive all that are unaccom-
panied by working models.
\ solar physics laboratory is to be
erected IN New Zealand, ut Nelson.
The site will probably be on n summit
known ms the Fringe which has an
elevation CT 300 feet abeve sea level.
1t will cost Australia about $4,000
900 TO open the Murray river to nayi-
cation and to construct an irrigation
system that win develop 100000 acres
of land.
Great strides are being made in the
size Of diamonds made in the electric
furnace. and a Frcnchman hopes soon
to produce commercial stones in this
manner
Pine piles recently taken from the
North river. In New York harbOr,
eighty years after being driven were
found TO be in perfect condition both
above ana below the water.
Recent terrestrial disturbances have
caused change IN the bed of the
ocean Off Central America. some places
showing a depth Of 5000 feet Mt pres
ent where only 1000 existed before.
I'm eel kept IN a tank at the zoolog-
ical experiment station at Rovigno. IL
ally, has Just taken its first meal since
1910 For some unknown reason II
went on a hunger strike four years ago
The markings on graduated meas
uring glass Invented in Germany are
made along a zigzag line instead OF a
vertical one and. having wider spaces
between. are said TO be read more ac-
cuntely.
Green mercury vapor lights are now
used. as described IN the Electrical
World. TO detect impurities In cube
sugar and to assert the sixteen differ
cnt shades Of ivory which 20 into pi-
ano keys.
a Rhode island man has patented
suit for aviators covered with pockets
upcn only at the bottom. which he he
licvcs wonld fill with air and act as
numerous parIchutcs should their
wcarcr fail.
Consul General George II. Scidmore
reports that. according 10 the new cen
sns. Tokyo's population is 2.0l3.32l an
increase OF nearly 10000 over that OF
1903. The number of houses recorded
is 5i0.735. an increase Of go.Co0.
4 ihcatcr in New York has been
made the defendant in suit brought
- a woman who lost mesh bag
while in the house. The bag was found
and was given by an usher to another