Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-02-05
ROUND The WORLD

boston is plannlng TO eStaDllSh mu-
nicipal lodging houses.
Rubber plantations cover 81. acres
in the Straits Settlements.
Bank deposits in Kansas equal 5000
for each family in the state.
A $4,000 house was built in twenty
four hours at Hamilton. Ont.
Electric lights have been installed in
the eyes of two famous idols in Japan.
Montetiore home. New York, lately
dedicated new buildings costing So
900. 900.
There are 10000 harristers in the
United Kingdom. and only about 1000
practice.
A Cleveland humane society insists
or investigating all persons applying
for children for adoption.
1t is computed that more bartenders
are required in this country than work
ers on clothing and shoes.
In Colorado n good grade of excelsior
is being made from fire killed Alpine
fir and Engelmann spruce.
Weight for weight. according to an
English scientist, macaroni is as val
liable a flesh building food as beef or
mutton.
The United States and Russia togeth-
er own about one-half the horses in
the world. each having about 21,O0O.-
600 head.
There is promise of q large turpen-
tine industry in the west and south
west, the raw product being supplied
by the %resinous gum of western yellow
pine.
Professor C. 81. Higgins of Boston
says farm persons moving to cities
are more susceptible to tuberculosis
than are persons who have always
been city jewellers.
Furth. a Bavarian city of 10000
population. a suburb Of the city of
Nuremberg. has had in operation for
more thar two years a municipal gar
bage incineration plant.
American coal is not bought as free
ly in Marseilles as the British because
there is a belief that it is softer and
does not support the same handling
and exposure to the weather.
According to the London Chronicle.
the cinematograph is producing a
cinematic eye. a special disease gen
Grated by the effort to follow the flick
er and the unnatural speed of the pic
tured actors.
Pulmonary tuberculosis is being
treated by Il Danish physician with air
that has been subjected to the action
of ultra violet rays. which seems to
have a healing effect when inhaled
through the mouth.
The Parents Rights League Of
America has been launched in San
Francisco for the purpose of protect
ing the rights of parents ove chill
dren and to counteract the evil in
tluence' of childleSs reformers.
Concrete has been made use of by
the Italian government for the con-
%struction of snow fences to protect
the railroads in the district east of
the .ApennineS. where the Snowfalls
are very heavy and the slides carry
everything before them.
One OF the few milliunaireS possess
ed by Spain is working as an ordinary
workman in Il soap factory i'll Berlin.
He owns the largest SOAP factory in
Madrid. but wishes personally to
learn the difference between the Ger
man and French modes of making
soap.
French GIIinea is considered one of
the richest Of the French West African
colonies. konakry. the capital. is the
port through which almost the whole
Of the export and import trade passes.
and improvements are being made to
facilitate the constantly increasing
trade.
The cost of meat III Germany con-
tinue> generally to increase and the
number Of animals which reach the
abattoirs to decrease. To a consider
able extent. no doubt. these u%nfavora-
bic conditions have been influenced by
the prevalence Of the foot and mouth
disease.
The Swiss silk industry consists at
present of more than eighty mills.
nearly all OF which are in the vicinity
VI AulICH. HClS dlS 1S,OOo lOOulS Ill
operation. and about $4,000 workers.
chiefly women. are employed in this
industry, earning from 60 cents to
$1.20 a day.
The population of Mexico is 10000
600. divided as follows: Full blood
Indians, 5000. 900: mestizos (white and
Indian). 100000; creoles whites of
Spanish d~escent, 100000. The rest
Of the 100000 is made up of Euro
peans and Americans (20O,O0O) and
"Zambos," mulattoes and negroes.
A French firm is offering to the
owners of woods cast iron cylinders
to put around all their young trees to
protect them against hungry cattle.
The tree corsets' will be given free
of charge to country municipal au-
thorities in return for the right to
paint advertisements on the corsets.
There are nearly 1000 Mohammed-