Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-26
ROUND THE WORLD


Boston ate 100000 quarts of bean
last winter.
Caifornians are discussing ways O
canning oranges.
Many Of the straw" hats of Europ,
are made of wood.
Constantinople offers an excellen
market for carpenters tools.
In 1913 Denmark sent 1908 persons
to settle in the United States.
Hungary's insane are said to be sad
ly neglected in badly conducted asy
lums.
In 1913 the total commerce of France
broke all records both as to valuation
and volume.
Waldemer Jansen, a clerk in the war
department. Washington, has held his
job fifty years.
Norwegian women can now 60 into
all the professions except the priest
hood and the army.
New York's noted old Grand Union
hotel is to be demolished to permit
subway construction.
Germany ranks second among the
markets of the world for imported
fruits Of all descriptions,
Within the head of the crown of a
new stem winding watch there is in
serted a mariners compass.
In two New York industries, employ
ing 1,S93 women and girls, the major
ity of them receive only SO week.
The last census Of Greenland shows
a population Of 13.459, which is gain
of nearly 1000 persons in ten years.
Last years exposition in Client, Bel
gium, surpassed the expectations of its
promoters. The number of visitors ex-
ceeded 100000.
No fewer than 2OG conventions have
already been booked to meet in San
Francisco in 1915 during the progress
of the exposition.
Among the buildings destroyed in the |
recent fire at st. Augustine, the Oldest
city in this country, was the vedder
museum, containing priceless relics of
the Spanish period.
Norway had an unusually heavy her.
ring catch. 1t netted handsome returns
to the fishermen, while the buyers and
spectators, who usually take the prof
its, lost much money
The platform of new French auto
mobile for both military and industrial
purposes tilts 10 the ground to re-
ceive loads drawn upon it by a cap
stan which it carries.
Copenhagen is the most law abiding
city in the world, according to stats-
tics concerning homicide. In the year
1910 among its population Of 554 400
there was only one murder.
A freakish bolt of lightning complete !
ly vaporized more than 200 feet of the
antennae of a French wireless tele-
graph station. then formed ball
which made a clean hole in a window
pane. d
The British admiralty is contemplate c
ng the construction of huge floating
self contained factory capable of car
'ying out almost any kind of repairs
o war vessels that can be done with
nut drydocking. u
An average of seventy human lives
re sacrificed annually in forest fires in
his country, and a loss occurs of $25,-
O0,O00 Damage from insects and
rec diseases. which follow fire, costs 4
ach year $50,O00.O00.
1t has been discovered that the lava A
nd ashes which cover the cities of
a ntnin
irge percentage of valuable deposits,
7hich are to be exploited commercial
? by the italian government
The total eclipse of the sun in Au- "
ust will be used by the British AS
Ociation For the Advancement of Sci O.
nee as an occasion for studying the /
Of electric waves in con- a,
ection with wireless telegraphy.
The natives of western Australia, ac- c
)rding to current writer. after OK
Orging themselves on the flesh of the
lngaroo throw the bones over their
loulders to their gins-i. e.. wives
ho pass them on to the children"
Water furnished without charge to
religious, educational and
Iblic institutions in Chicago last year
as valued at more than 100000,
1out AZ per cent Of the city's total
venue from paying water consumers.
An armchair supposed to have been
ade by Peter the Great from the tim
RS of a wreck while he was a guest
John Evelyn was recently sold in
)ndon. The Russian double headed
gle is carved on the back of the
air.
There are 47,250 authorized tobacco
anters in France. who grow about =
100000 pounds Of tobacco on $4,000
res. The monopoly. besides buying
the tobacco grown in France, pur-
ases 55,000,O00 pounds of foreign M
own tobacco. N
Not less than 100000 goldfish are
Mt every year from Yokohama. ia
n, to San Francisco and other Pa
lc ports for sale in the United States,
pans largest customer in this inter-
ting product, in which Japan out
Ups the world.
fires in coal mines occasioned by
: ignition Of coal dust have a paral-
in the ignition of sugar dust, which yol