Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-07-23
ROUND THE WORLD


New South Wales fruit growers are
adopting auto trucks.
China buys cheap spoons largely
from the United States.
ST. Louis this year will pay s10.S17.
5O8.92 for city government.
Baltimore finds "a per cent of its pop
ulation affiliated with churches.
The sanitary condition of the Pana
ma canal zone continues to improve.
Boston Germans have dedicated a
home for the aged at 1922 Center
street.
There are 1885 institutions in the
United States for the care of chill
dren.
Dallas, Tex. has added new 3,OOO,-
600 gallon capacity pump to its water
system.
India leads eastern countries in the
number of It's blind. having about Co.,
600 to 100000 in Japan.
Philadelphia hopes to build enough
new schoolhouses this year to end con
In 1866 a cable message from New
York to Germany cost 81 word. The
price now Is % cents a word.
Chicago loses a landmark in the
demolition of the Morrison block. Mad
ison and Clark. erected in 1871.
Four buffalo calves have just been
born on the Wichita national forest.
bringing the herd up to fifty-one.
Fifteen of the largest British cities
have agreed to join in smoke abate-
ment and fuel economy experiments.
1t has been figured that a days con
tinued frost or snow in England re-
suits in the idleness of million work
men.
Because copper is an important me-
dunn of currency in China its mining
is vigorously controlled by the govern
ment
Iron ore exists in almost every Chi
nese province, but in only a few dis
tricts Is 1t mined on an extensive
scale.
Evaporated cranberries have been
put on the American market. The
crop last season was estimated mt
10000 bushels.
The department of agriculture states
that the farm horse averages about
three and one-half hours of work
day the year round.
Turkeys cruiser Hamidieh has been
designated by that country to take
part in the naval pageant of all ma
tons at the San Francisco exposition.
If the Belgian government carries
out IA plan to dig Il new bed for the
river Scheldt there will be no limit to
the size of vessels that can reach Ant
werp.
During the last year there has been
a considerable falling off in the num-
1,471 strikes in all. involving 23O,646
strikers.
The harbor of Hamburg has been
equipped with floating drydocks of two
types, which are able to raise from
the water vessels longer than the docks
themselves.
At sale recently held in London
forty eight semipreciOus stones were
sold. on each of which is Il natural rep
resentation of human head or animal
or bird form.
1t Is only twenty years ago that med
zeal inspection in schools was started
in the United States. Great Britain
and Germany began the practice some
years earlier.
1t is contended by French scien-
fist of standing that many unexplained
fires ut sea and explosions on war
ships and in mines are caused by stray
wireless waves.
The total farm value of all crops in
the United States for 1913 is estimated
at Sc, 100. 900 and the value of ami
mails sold and slaughtered and Of ami
nal products at $500 100000,
\ French scientist attributes the
benefit of sunlight at high attitudes
upon persons to prepOnderance of
ultra violet rays, which induce more
active circulation of the blood.
The agricultural experiment station
at Pullman. Wash, Is establishing an
arboretun, in which it is proposed to
grow n group of each Of the important
timber trees of the temperate zone.
The Pribilof islands are the seat of
the most important seal colony in the
world Next in Importance Is the
Commander herd. owned by Russia.
while the Kuril herd. owned by Japan.
comes third.
Telephone troubles in the tropics are
largely due to the wires becoming Gov
cred with air plants. In Porto Rico the
humidity OF the atmosphere is so great
that the plants continue to grow until
they are detached by the linemen.
More than % per cent of Alaska is
owned by the United States. and this
vast area was bought by the govern
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