The Dickinson press., 1914-06-06
ROUND THE: WORLD

IN Burma women smoke cigars the
same as men.
Valencia, Spain, yearly produces 2oO.
900 tons OF rice. #5
For a. Thousand unhusked cocoanuts
SIS is considered in the Philippines a
Very high price.
a plant, to extract nitrogen from the
air for fertilization purposes is being
built in Iceland.
Twenty-six hundred Guernsey cows
tested Show an average milk yield OF
5S,465 pounds a year.
In Great Britain the percentage Of
insanity is Increasing faster than the
growth Of population.
New York state consumes 37O,55O,OO0
feet Of lumber annually in making
packing boxes and crates.
Dwellers on the seacoast Of one part
Of France claim to prevent seasickness
by filing their ears with vaseline. I
Women are employed in road build
ing in Singapore, breaking up much of
the material with small hammers.
Eggs shipped to the United States
from Hamburg are not German eggs,
but come from Galicia and Hungary.
In the course Of n year more than
5000 persons Were identified by their
finger prints in the London police court.
The United States bill for diamonds
the last decade has been just about
enough to buy and build the Panama
canal. E
The washing Of the towels and dust
ers used in the London public schools
requires an annual expenditure Of
$4,000.
San Pedro harbor, California, is to be.
improved BY dynamiting out Of exist
ence the obstruction known as dead
Mans island"
There is said to be one rat to every
acre Of ground in England and Wales,
causing a loss to farmers estimated at.
$73, 100000 annually.
There is an Indian tribe in Bolivia
which shuns the whites and lives as in
the stone age, making tools and weap-
ons out of stone, bone or wood.
Chinese jade is SO successfully imi-
tated by German manufacturers that
experts of the far east frequently mis-,
take the artificial for the genuine.
It is proposed to introduce the use. Of
Esperanto into the Edinburgh police
force, and pamphlets in regard to It
have been distributed among the men.
There are fewer than $4,000 reindeer
left in Lapland, and it has been point
ed out that unless special measures are
taken the animals will become extinct.
A native Of Hersham, Surrey, Eng
land, who is ifty-six years Of age has
not once crossed the Thames, which Is
only a mile and a half away. from his
home.
So much greater Is the demand for
edible snails in France than the supply
that artificial snails have been invent
ed, the only genuine portions Of which
are the shells. S * !.
Goteburg, Sweden now has some
three wheeled taxicabs for special pas
senger traffic. The fares are 25 per
cent less than those of the regular four
wheeled taxis.
In order to become a physician In
Turkey one must be able to pass the
required oral examination In either
the French or Turkish language. The
requirements are strict. x
Every twenty-four hours there are
poured into the Harlem river 100000
gallons, into the North5river 132,OOO,OOO
gallons and into the East river 264,00O,-
600 gallons of New York sewage.
Notwithstanding two DEGREES by the
local italian government in Tripoli or
dering the Arabs to return and cult
vate the gardens in the oasis about
Tripoi, only a few have responded.
Italian ~farmhouses need improving,
according to the opinion Of the gov
eminent, which has offered $7,5S5 in
premiums to be awarded for .encourag
ing the construction Of model farm
buildings.
More than 100000 members Of the
Salvation Army from forty-six coun-
tries will assemble in San francisco
between Aug: Is and %, 1915, for the
convention Of the International Saliva
ton Army.
a Quite recently "a Par1S1an
made use of a lion In one Of its films,
the animal proving 50 tractable that it
had the run Of the studio and was
stroked like a dog The next day it
killed It's trainer.
The seven sons In the Burkheiser
family Of Detroit, Mich, weigh 1000
pounds. They are all between the
ages OF twenty-five and t~hirty-eight,
are all married, and their average
weight is nearly $50 pounds. s
Tree planting on national forests is
done at comparatively short intervals
lin spring and fall. In spring It starts
when the snow melts and stops with
the drying soutsoff the ground In the
fall it comes between the fall rains
and first snowfall.
British Indias writer In. The Out
look for. the blind says, leads all east
ern countries in the number of its
blind people, containing about 100000.
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