The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1914-04-09
ROUND THE H !. WORLD.

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Jersey City home for the blind is to
to have a new building to cost $780,
900. a" .-E%
About 400 arrests for counterfeiting
are made in the United States each
year -. ~
Bricks made of peat are being sue
| cessfully used in Sweden for small
buildings.
Females outnumber the males III
Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore
and Boston
The United States has made more
rapid progress in iron production than
any other country.
The height Of buildings in Hungari-
an cities is limited by law to eighty
two and one-half feet.
According to DR.. Clement Lucas of
England, the human family is likely to
become one toed race.
Recent statistics credit the United
States with about one automobile for
each two miles of country road.
At the present time 113 women have
the right to wear the coveted red rib
bon of the French Legion of Honor.
Cooperative rural credit associations
are planned for the Philippine Islands
The object is to help the small farmer.
Some of the finest lace in the world
is made by the women of the Philip.
pine Islands from a strong silky fiber
obtained from pineapple leaves.
Soidifed alcohol in cube form is
coming into use in Germany for cook
ing and other purposes for which small
amounts Of heat are sufficient
A recent census, the first Of the kind
| ever taken, credited Denmark, which
has about one-third the area of Wis
consin> with more than 100000 fruit
trees.
An express train travelling from Nice
to Macon, France, was beaten by
twelve minutes by an eagle which
raced it over a distance Of eighteen
miles
Few turtles are being caught these
days in the Bahamas, the annual
catching having diminished for some
time. Expectation Of turtle shell may
| soon cease
A life Dreserver of European inven-
ton for seagoing vessels is intended
to keep Il person fairly warm and dry
for several days as he floats about
awaiting rescue.
1t is said that the first man to cross
| George A. Wyman of San Francisco,
who performed the feat during the
summer Of 1903.
Brazil claims to be the country which
possesses the most precious timber for
general construction and shipbuilding
| and for the manufacture of furniture
and other articles
| The Turkish government has given a
French bank a concession to build an
! electric railroad between Jerusalem
| and Bethlehem and for lighting the
former city with electricity
According to an Italian scientist who
has classified 1000 cases of self de-
struction, more suicides occur between
the ages of fifteen and twenty five
than at any other period in life
Statistics show that Ireland's fish
| cries continue to decline in amount of
fish landed and the number of men
! and boats engaged. Capitalists are
! displacing individual fishermen
One of the largest forest nurseries in
the United States is conducted by the
forest service near Haugen, Mont It
is known as the Savenac nursery and
has capacity Of 100000 young trees
a year.
Iron alleged with gold is being intro
duced as a substitute for tin in the
making of cans. The resulting prod
kinds, but costs fifteen times as much
as tin plate.
The readiness of Africans to accept
and pay for modern methods of trans
portation is illustrated by the fact that
Of $4,000 passengers carried in one
month by the Tripoli railway $4,000
were Arabs.
Italy has established a strict censor
ship on moving pictures Pictures por-
traying scenes distasteful or contrary
to public decency and morality, espe-
cially those reproducing acts of cruelty
or which might be an incentive to
crime, are forbidden.
Literature in Turkey has responded
to the liberty that followed the revolu-
ton. Large numbers Of TRANSACTIONS
and adaptations Of European scientific
and literary works and books of a pop
ular nature are now available.
One of the longest bridges in the
world will soon be built by Germany.
It will give railroad connection be-
tween Rugen, an island in the Baltic
sea, and the mainland of Germany.
The length will be about 1000 feet
and the cost about $5,0O0,O00.
More than 100000 gray squirrels
were killed last year in Siberia for
their fur. The tails alone weighed
more than twenty-one tons. The ami
NAL figuring next in the fur trade of
Asiatic Russia in point of numbers
was the white hare which contributed