Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-01-13
ROUND THE WORLD

ly the growing of soy beans.
England has ninety-two centena
rians. Germany has seventy-six.
More than 100000 gross Of pencil.
are annually made in Philadelphia.
OF every 200 persons who live to be
forty years Of age 1875 are married.
Argentinian cattlemen are looking
for cheap and fertile lands in Brazil.
There are 1OS Presbyterian churches
In Philadelphia. with 54.33O members
Missouri's 1913 wheat crop amount
ed to 35,30O.S33 bushels. valued al
$2s,5O5. s4e.
st. Paul is the birthplace Of new
fraternal order. to be known as the
Camels Of the World.
Havana now has a newspaper de
voted to the interest Of the equal rights
Of women on the island.
John IT. Bayiies. ninety one, Of Bos.
ton. boasts that he has smoked pipe
since he was twenty -one.
The Germany navy has a salvage
boat especially designed for the recOv.
cry Of sunken submarines.
Capital punishment was abolished IN
Italy In 1875 Since then murders
have increased AZ per cent.
More than 100000 pianos are built
in this country annually. They are
valued ut nearly $7O,OOO.OOO.
GRADUATED glass is being tried as a
preservative for the surface Of wood
in England with much success.
A plate stcrilizing machine for hotels
and restaurants. automatic in its op-
GRAFTON. is Frenchman's invention.
Italy has joined several other Euro
pean nations in prohibiting the man
ufacture. importation and sale Of alb
smith.
novel traction engine literally
walks instead of rolls along, being pro-
vided with four legs shod with broad
shoes.
Swedish farm laborers, who are
hired by the year, receive an average
wage of $50 annually, with board and
room in additions
The first film play. ever shown was
some forty feerein length. "Quo Va
dis" which required 1900 actors. is
on film 5000 feet long.
In this country there are about 277,-
600 acres, sufficient to support $3.50
cattle OF $4,000 sheep. now worthless
because Of the prairie dogs.
Japan is rapidly developing the cellu-
loid industry as all the raw materials
for its manufactuEeseXcept nitric acid
The Bulgarian government has COM
missioned an Austrian factory to coin
a variety OF pieces, 20, 10 and 5 stO-
links. One hundred stotinks equal 1913
cents.
Turkish tobacco has now become the
staple crop on eighty farms in South
Africa, all Of which have been sue
cessful in the production Of this type
Of tobacco.
The English postotfice has 2G1O,65O
miles Of single wire, made up Of 313,-
S05 for telegraph, 2.234,215 for tele-
phones and 62,O3O for private and
leased wires
The granite statue of King Edward
VII, recently dedicated at Aberdeen,
is believed to be the first granite stat
ue of a ruler erected since the days Of
the PharaOhs.
Philip Voss recently paid $50 for an
inch Of land in New York city. The
inch was needed to give him a clear
title to piece of property which he
already owned
The London Herald was the first
English newspaper to employ war
correspondent. This was George Bor.
row, who wrote of the Carlist fighting
in Spain in 1899.
India has 315.00O,0O0 people, less than
half of whom can read even the ma
tive vernaculars. Nevertheless there
are 65S newspapers and 1902 peri
odicals published there
The lowest human lnbitatio is said
to be that of the coal miners in Bo-
hemia, some of whom make their
dwellings ut point over 1000 feet
below the level Of the sea.
The department of public instruc-
ton and fine arts of Spain has been
allotted $G3.000 for use toward estab-
fishing and improving workshops Of
the country's industrial schools
Agricultural labOrers in India are
usually paid in kind but in the canal
colonies. where labor is scare, as much
as 81 cents day is paid for hired la
bora high rate for that country.
During the past ten years more than
100000 persons are said to have been
killed in India by snake bites, while
tigers, leopards and wolves have ac-
counted for another $4,000 deaths.
The average area administered by a
ranger on the federal forests Of the
United States is about 100000 acres.
In Germany the area administered by
man of equivalent rank is about 700
acres.
Twelve cities and towns of Ecua-
dor are considering or have in course
of completion waterworks improve
ments. six are studying sewerage
propositions, and three are considering
paving.
A flexible wire window screen that
Wisconsin man has invented is at
tached to the lower sash in such a
manner that 1t unrolls and fills the
window to whatever extent the sash
be raised.
Ostia was once the seaport of Rome.
It is now practically deserted vii
lage. infested with malaria. and owing
to the continual deposit of silt from
the river. two and half miles from