The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-01-27
ROUND THE WORLD


ipal ash hauling.
New York's health commissioner has |
started n crusade for pure pies.
Philadelphia has savings bank I
which has over . 900 women depositors. |
Emperor William of Germany owns
fifty palaces and 5000 suits of clothes
Diamond production in German
Southwest Africa is reported unusually
large.
s Megaphones are used by teachers on |
noisy Fairgrounds in Brooklyn, n. Y, |
to make themselves heard
There are nearly 1900 useless gas
lampposts in Providence. and it is fig
ured that it will cost $4,000 to remove
them.
he can satisfactorily mix paints at
night by wearing violet colored spec
tacles.
A German scientist has produced
coal from several substances by sub
hitting them to intense heat under
pressure.
A Canadian electric light company
d
duce electric irons to the Celestial
laundrymen.
The University of California English
club recently gave performance Of
Twelfth Night on the summit of
Mount Tamalpais.
The Chinese government has armed
and equipped fourteen automobiles for
no I,an in
| the interior of Mongolia.
| An apparatus invented by n Paris
scientist matches chickens and pro
| tects them from all microbes until
| they reach a desired age.
| A st. Louis (Mo.) woman insisted
the other day on giving a ceremonial
| funeral to her fifteen year old pet cat,
using a mahogany caslket.
| Coffee. crude rubber, OK hides, cheese.
pepper and Benedietine were the prin-
eipal exports from Havre. France, to
the United States last year.
The Balkan war has brought about
n rise in certain lumber prices in Eu-
rope because of the big demand for
wood for ammunition boxes.
Tiny but efficient electric lamps to
be worn on their caps by bandSmen at
, night and supplied with current by
storage batteries have been invented.
Cooperative house building is being
tried out in Hongkong in an effort 70
house the steadily increasing popula
ton and at the same time TO reduce
rents.
According to prominent financial
journal of Paris, the consumption of
coffee in the different countries of the
world varies in inverse ratio 10 the
import duty.
4 will has been found under eleven
thicknesses of wall paper by workmen
engaged in stripping the walls of a
house adjoining the Royal Marine
hotel. Cowes.
The total Indian population of the
Dominion of Canada on March 81 last
was lOI.956 In addition there We're
1900 Eskimos. making q native popn
lation of 1O9.556.
The proposed mid Scotland canal. ii
is now stated, will be 80 miles long, Sc
feet deep and las feet wide at the
bottom Hooded with sea water. with
4
which may pass the largest battleship
Anton Dartleyand.- Turk. spoke
English with German accent when ap
plying for citizenship papers in
Queens, n. Y: "Vell, live by der Col
| lege Point, nit Germans, for twendty
| FIVE years under / learn dere to spike
l dose languages"
i Modern laws of France help the
II workingmen to buy homes at small
II pride and to rent quarters ut desirable
II rates, it being recognized that this
II form OF philanthropy is potent
II factor i'm combating both race suicide
ii and alcoholism.
= Among the gifts to the kaiser:
, daughter at her wedding was
clock sent by the city of Hamelin. I
is made from wine cask sawed IL
two. The hours are champagne corks
The hands are corkscrews and tn,
|, weights are bottles filed with cham
payne.
4 great typhoon in 1912 did damage
estimated at 81 100000 in Nagoya har
\ Dor and at $4,000 in Yokkaichi har
Dor. In both these harbors extensiv,
improvements We're in progress at tn
time, and these were set back at leas
year Goods for America are car
ried by lighters to Yokkaichi. an,
there placed aboard ocean going YES
: sels~,
:. An agricultural colony in Palestin
has just applied to the United State
forest service for help in planting
trees to bind the drifting sands of tn
Mediterranean. The colony is near Jai
ia or Yafa. the ancient Joppa of tn
Bible, and there is being developed i
connection with it seaside resor,
with hotel. villas bath houses and gai
dens.
American readers are calling for les