Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-03-26
ROUND the WORLD

Bombay has 1892 occupied and 7.7S4
uAoccupied houses.
Cleveland in 1913 gave nearly So
0N,Q0o to charities.
Since 1909 Japan has more than doll-
bled its exports of toys.
Panama sends about 100000 cocoa
nuts a year to the United States.
More than 12.GOo.O0O American wo-
men are affiliated with mission work III.
foreign fields.
ray apparatus has been invented
for killing the tiny parasites that eat
small holes in leaf tobacco.
BY the addition of masnesia and an
oxide an extremely elastic glass has
been brought out in France.
The ameer of Afghanistan receives
from the government of India an an
nnal subsidy Of about $GO0.OOO
Since 1851 there have been sixty dis
asters in the coilieries of south Wales.
with a total loss of life of 2.9OS.
1t is said flat Chinese girls take
more interest in American life and pol
itics than their American sisters.
The population of Manchuria is vari-
ouSly estimated between 15.O00.00O and
l9.29d.OO0. tile latter being the customs
figures.
New YsEk legal aid bureau for a fes
of IN cents furnishes lawyer to assist
immigrants and poor persons in obtain.
ing justice.
Women are to be admitted to the fac
uIty of theology. the synod of the can
ton of Neufchatel. in Switzerland. has
just decided
The new civil code has introduced
important reforms in Switzerland since
it gives both parents equal rights over
their children.
1t is remarkable to what extent
Sweden exports butter. After iron ore
it is the second article of Importance
in the export trade.
| Chinese in the Hongkong district
have recently taken to ice cream.
| There is a tremendous sale of Aneri-
| can ice cream freeZers.
| The foreign commerce of the United
! States in the calendar year 1913 APP
| proximated S1.15O.O 100000 of imports
| and 81 .500.00o,O0O of exports.
| Chicago leads the largest twenty
| two cities in the United States in the
| percentage of increase in automobile
4 accidents in the last five years.
The postofhce department of India
maintains a life insurance branch
II :.
with an aggregate insurance of $780,
000.O00.
| The ultra violet ray is being intro
duced nv Paris dentists for wbitenins
discolored teeth and sterilizine then
in such way that they are less liable
to decay.
In Argentina II is nossihle ro leas,
NOT more than IA ao1 .cras nf nnhli,
land and to bny directly CHS ncres q
pastnre land or 494 acres of ayricnl
tural land.
In Grin4a there ;s a trae who,
Yields a pecu,iar kind of fruit-a hing,
frnit rese,Shlinr in size cannon hal
and which makes a tremendous no;s,
when If Mons
In proportion to its weight Californi,
redwood is the strongest confer SO IA
tested at the United States forest prod
ucts laboratory. This strength is din,
to its long fibers
Frirhtfnl conditions among the moo
were revealed by the Dublin strike I
is said that there are over 10000 on,
room tenements which house fren
three to twelve people each.
Tbree airshin trims across tha nnay
I nlored region Of the island If Ney
Guinea are planned bv German scier
fists tn make observations to aid me,
who man to traverse If on foot
n ;s s,;a TINT tho pa,;. An,.7anr a
Sc;enca has otfared ;, nrize IF 20 on, :
tho nerSon who day;s.s ,,aans en
DEMONSTRATING the heron in order 10 ot
tain aisrets without killing the birds
Tho n;yam nf uo;d,r,,aa !. ro,;,,+o
To no rho w..,th;ast ;nd,y;dna, i,
tr,,;a .na ono of no ra.,+h;os. No,