The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1914-06-18
ROUND The WORLD D

West Point Military academy is 112
years old.
Panama now has an organized con-
stabulary force.
New York scientists now say pellag-
"a is an infectious disease.
A hemp stripping machine has been
invented in the Philippines.
The textile industry in Brazil en-
ploys more than 100000 workers.
South Dakota and South Carolina are
the only states in which tin is pro-
duced.
Women physicians in the London
health department must resign their
positions if they marry.
The tomb Of Aristomenes, Messenian
hero of the second Spartan war, has
been discovered at Rhodes.
During the past eight years the cham
pion typewriters of the world have
been three women and one man.
Revolution damage claims presented
to the Chinese republics government
now call for more than $23, 100000.
Some large French insurance compa-
MES keep records Of the teeth Of their
clients to insure Identification after
death.
A machine that cures grass, turning
it into hay in the course Of thirty min
utes, is the latest step in up to date
farming.
Norway has IA tree planting socie-
ties The first was founded in 1900,
and since then 26,0OO,OOO trees have
been planted.
In central Derbyshire, England, one
can walk underground for a distance
of seven miles along a road which con-
meets several coal mines.
South China annually produces more
than 10000 bales Of raw silk and ex-
ports more than 100000 pounds. val
ued at more than $17.O00,O0O.
Only seven people now live at Dyea,
which in the days Of the Klondike had
a population Of 10000. OF the seven
it is said only two are whites.
In Galicia there are two Polish wo-
mems rights associations; also one in
Warsaw, under the Russian govern
ment, and at Posen, under Prussia
A vast area of New Zealand which a
volcano devastated quarter of cen
fury ago is being reforested with larch
trees, convict labor doing the work.
So general is the neglect of dentistry
in Germany that a nation wide commit
tee has been formed to supervise the
care of the teeth Of school children.
An international exposition will be
held next year at Milan, Italy, to show
the development Of marble, granite and
stone working throughout the world.
The Paris Natural History museum
has passed resolutions calling for an
international commission to investigate
the threatened extinction of the whale
The gradual diminution of the world S
meat supply has within the past few
years attracted considerable capital to
Paraguay, country previously neg
lected.
To catch burglars an Englishman
has patented mechanism to drop a
person who steps in front Of a safe at
certain hours into pit, doors closing
over him.
There are fewer than 10000 Ameri
cans among the 100000 inhabitants
of England. The total number of for
eigners residing in England does not
exceed $4,000.
All canned fish contain ptomaines.
according to the French Academy Of
Sciences. but they do not begin to in
crease appreciably until two days aft
err can has been opened
Collapsible towers adopted by the
German army for searchlights and
wireless telegraphy are so light and
compact that two men can carry a
tower that extends to 100 feet
Official figures show that less than
one-twelfth Of the area of the Philip
pines is devoted to agriculture, yet last
year the leading crops were estimated
to be worth nearly $9O,OOO,O0O.
Wealthy Parisians have purchased
an entire block of residences in that
for Roman and Gothic treasures be-
lieved to be buried beneath them.
A long series of experiments in the
Philippines by army surgeons has dis
proved the theory that the deteriora-
ton Of white persons in the tropics is
due to the actinic rays of the sun.
A freal1ish bolt of lightning CON-
pletely vaporized more than 200 feet of
the antennae Of a French wireless tel
egraph station. then formed ball,
which made clean hole in a window
pane.
By the use of improved ovens which
collected the byproducts the coke in.
lustry Of the United States saved $16..
100000 last year, which would have
been wasted by old methods of manu-
facture.
For placing an obstacle on the rail
thereby causing a train to STOP" a
Russian of Mini Novgorod was recent
ly fined. He was trying to commi!
suicide. and the ''obstacle'' was his
own head.