The Bottineau courant., 1914-09-18
ROUND THE WORLD

Lyons. France. has union OF silk
merchants
or $4,000 cigarmakers in Italy 5000
are women.
Spain has an area of nearly 100000
square miles.
Ceylon has 100000 acres in cocoa
nut plantations.
Negroes own 3.753 farms. valued at
81. .76S, $50. 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.
DR.. J. 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 l,442 pensioners of the
Mexican war OF 1868 still on the rolls
Fifty thousand combinations are pos
sible with Il new combination paddock
The United States is this year spend
ing $4OOOO.OOO for new church build
ings. =
Philadelphia will put glass case
around the Grant cabin in Fairmount
park
This country annually consumes 800
pounds of wheat and wheat flour per
capita.
Wizard Edison says he expects 10
solve the problem of securing electric
power directly from coal.
Several central western roads are to
build bathhouscs for cattle that un
pleasant OdUrS may be avoided.
When Il hydroaeroplane fell into
Swedish waters a submarine boat div
ed under 1t and brought 1t to shore un-
injured.
Italy is drafting and will enforce
series of regulations covering the
width Of wheel rims to be allowed on
highways.
The Venezuelan government has de-
cided to use per cent OF the import
duties collected for a fund for sani-
tary purposes.
at Ponsanooth. Cornwall. has been
discovered to possess strong radio-ac
tive properties.
The Roumanian government has COM
menced work on a tunnel under the
Danube river to connect with territory
recently acquired.
Russian publication has just put
out its one hundredth issue after many
difficulties. twenty-five of the previ-
Gus issues were confscated for sedi-
t1Ous 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 a flood 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.
A solar physics laboratory is to be
erected in New Zealand. at Nelson.
The site will probably be on summit
known as the Fringe. which has an
elevation Of $500 feet above sea level.
1t will cost Australia about $25. .OOO.-
Goo to open the Murray river to navi-
CATION and to construct an irrigation
system THAT will develop 100000 acres
Of land;
Great strides are being made in the
size OF diamonds made in the electric
furnace. and d Frenchman hopes soon
to produce commercial stones in this
manner.
Pine piles recently taken from the
North river. In New York harbOr.
eighty pears after being driven were
found to he in perfect condition both
above and below the water
Recent terrestrial disturbances have
caused change in the bed of the
ocean of Central America. some places
showing depth of 5000 feet. at pres
ent where only LOCO existed before.
An eel kept in tank at the zoolog-
ical experiment station at Rovigno, 1t.
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 a graduated meas
uring glass invented in Germany are
made along a zigzag line instead Of
vertical one and. having wider spaces
between. are said to be read more ac-
curately.
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
ent shades Of ivory which 60 into pi-
ano keys.
A Rhode Island man has patented q
suit for aviators. covered with pockets
open only at the bottom, which he be-
lieves would fill with air and act as
numerous parachutes should their
wearer fall.
Consul General George H. Scidmore
reports that. according to the new Gen.
sus, Tokyo's population is 2.O33 .321. an
increase Of nearly 100000 over that Of