Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-09-03
ROUND The WORLD

years Ola.
Guam has a total population Of L.,
SIT persons.
Many Germans are residents Of Bar
celona, Spain.
Cleveland is revising it's tenement
building code.
Cleveland has added eighty men to
its police force.
St Louis has nine golf clubs, each
with It's own course.
Paper pulp is now being made from
bamboo in Formosa
Dresden has had a municipal news
paper for fifty years.
Cement is largely used for garden
furniture in Belgium.
France ranks third among nations
in coffee consumption.
Palestine this year exports nearly
100000 pounds Of almonds.
Bombay cotton mills pay operatives
about 800 year in wages.
The paving Of streets with wooden
blocks originated In Russia.
The wages Of Scotch miners have
been reduced by cents a day.
Chief of Police Gideon wants women
for truant officers in Philadelphia.
The increase of orchard area In
Tasmania is at the rate of 1000 acres
a year.
Germany buys much tobacco in
Turkey, but chiefly of the cheaper
grades.
The candle lamp has been so improv-
ed that it IS used on bicycles and mo-
torcycles in Paris.
Mont HeinZen, Switzerland. is split.
ting, and great landslides may any day
overwhelm several small villages.
The average age of an ostrich is thir
ty years, and the annual yield of a bird
in captivity is from two to four pounds
of plumes.
On the Spanish Mediterranean mel
ons are kept through the entire winter
by tying them with esparto strings to
the ceiling Of Il dark room
The president of Brazil sees the sal
walton Of his country in the special cul-
t1Vation Of cotton and in the develop
ment of cattle raising and iron mining
There are two opera houses in Ant
Werp, Belgium, subsidized by the mu-
nicipality. One produces opera in
French, the other in Flemish and Ger
man.
There is Il plan to safeguard Manila
n Cr inst thn Il
by building high up on the Montalban
watershed a 200O,OOO,OOO gallon reser-
voir
Battles in human blood between
white corpuscles and disease germs
have been photographed with the mo-
ton picture camera by two French sci
entlsts.
A European inventor believes he can
destroy hostile dirigible balloons by
dragging II specially designed bomb
against them with Il rope carried be
hind an aeroplane flying above them.
The German government plans to
send technical attaches to its principal
diplomatic posts 10 report on inven-
lions and progress along any impor-
tant line in the countries in which they
are stationed
Twenty one million dozen eggs were
exported from the United States in the
fiscal year 1913. The average price at
which eggs We're exported was 211.
cents n dozen. and the average import
price was 10 cents dozen.
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sists of cultivated fruits, such as cher
ries. strawberries, raspberries and
blackberrieS Beetles. ants, crickets and
grasshoppers are the most important
items of its animal food.
In these days of domestic science
and manual training 1t Is interesting to
know that sewing and knitting were
taught In the first frame Schoolhouse
erected in Pennington, Me, more than
n century and quarter ago.
Wheat and wheat flour consumption
annually an inhabtant Is estimated at
202.7 pounds in Germany, $50 pounds
in France and ESQ., pounds in the
United States. German consumption
OF rye flour is about rs much as that
of wheat -four.
Within six years the American Red
Cross has expended approximately
$3.50, 900. including the value of donated
supplies, in trying to afford some
measure of relief for hundreds Of thou
sands of inhabitants of the famine re-
gion of central China.
One of the most dramatic develop
ments OF material kind in the last
twenty-five or thirty years has been
the rise of the cotton seed industry.
the value Of its crude products increas-
ing since 1880 from something more
than s., 100000 to $15O,o0O,00O
Sir Joseph Swan. inventor of the first
incandescent lamp. died recently in
London He was eighty-six years old,
Sir Joseph was also well known for his
Photographic appliances He perfected
the carbon process and tho dry plate.