The Washburn leader., 1914-07-17
ROUND THE WORLD

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100000 an ounce, troy weight.
Boston will place drinking fountain
In the center of Park square.
In Venice there is a cafe which has
been open day and night for 150 years
Chicago is to have a notorious COM
pany to operate in the streets under
franchise.
No two nations have the same laws
regulating the handling and storage of
explosives.
Italian state railways will use three
quarters of million tons of Welsh
coal this year.
Waterproof knapsacks made Of
horses hair have been invented by
Japanese army officer.
Work was obtained for 16,34O men
and women by the Cleveland free en-
ployment bureau last year.
German women have started cam
paign for admission to the floor Of the
Stock Exchange in Berlin.
Divorces drawing alimony in excess
Of $1,000 are compelled to pay an in
come tax to the government.
A census Of Greenland taken Oct. /,
1911, shows population of IL, ,450, as
compared with 1882 in 1901.
Overheating of ships is held respon-
sible for the alarming prevalence Of
tuberculosis in all modern navies.
Philadelphia expects to gain reve-
nue. of 100000 year from the sale
of articles found in garbage and ash
heaps.
More than $1,000 persons are en-
gagged in the oyster industry Of the
United States Their earnings in wages
exceeded $1O,S76.OOO.
has been invented in Germany which
measures the proportion of carbonic
acid gas in the air of a room.
Germany's colonies are five times as
big as herself, those of France eight
cen times, and Great Britain ninety
seven times bigger than herself.
Buenos Aires has a population of
100000, made up largely of Spaniards
and Italians, but including also many
Germans, British and Americans.
In Japan girls in spinning factories
work on an average of thirteen to four
teen hours daily and those in weaving
factories fourteen to sixteen hours.
More than 80 per cent of Alaska is
owned by the United States, and this
vast area was bought by the govern
ment for less than 2 cents an acre.
No fewer than sixty firms in Shef-
field, England, are engaged in making
sterling silver and plated ware. They
employ about 1000 working people.
The board Of health of Canadian
town visited the slaughter houses the
other day and straightway announced
that they would become vegetarians.
On the municipal rolls of Copen-
hagen. Denmark. are $3.50 men and
1904 women. With their families they
constitute 7.3 per cent of the popula-
ton.
The paper used by the government
printing Office each year requires ap-
proximately 125,OOO,OOO pounds Of rag
pulp and 49O.OOO,OO0 pounds Of wood
pulp.
The imperial observatory at Using
tau, capital of the German colony of
Kiaochau, China. is rapidly becoming
one of the leading scientific institutions
Of the far east
So good an insulator is dry snow
that the bare wire of the telephone line
to an Italian observatory on Mount
Rosa often is buried in it without in
terfering with the service.
More than 100000 tons Of ore a
year are expected to be exported from
iron mines in Algeria by French capi.
talists. who have obtained concessions
after more than ten years Of effort
In her book on "War and Women''
Mrs. Stobart declares. from her obser-
vations in the Balkans and elsewhere,
that war does not kindle qualities OF
heroism," but qualities Of brutality"
In Benares there has been for many
years temple for monkeys, and it is
one of the most costly buildings there.
The followers of Brahma hold this
animal sacred and worship it as q
deity.
Any reputable person can obtain q
license for the sale Of wine, beer and
spirits in Belgium, excepting those who
have not paid their state. provincial OF
city taxes or who have been convicted
Of crime.
People in Seville. Spain, were long
uninterested in outdoor sports, bu:
games introduced by foreign residents
have recently gained great popularity
Football, tennis. golf and polo are now
organized sports.
An inscription found at Lanuvium
where the Empress Livia had villa,
shows that the little provincial town
had curia mulierum-a woman's de-
batting club. The walls Of Pompeif.
when the shroud Of lava had been re-
moved from its scorched face. bore
election addresses signed by women.
Leather has generally supplanted
cloth shoes for Chinese women among
the well to do classes in Hongkong
and even the working classes are us
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