The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1914-01-22
ROUND / I ! The | WORLD

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New York has over: 5000 building
material teamsters.
Lyons. France, uniforms it's street
cleaning employees.
Women have ruled, the men for. 600
vt,lrs in Tibet. Asia.
leveland, o.. may soon establish a
domestic lelA tons court. .
Russia's estimated revenue for 1914
is placed at $1,824 ,504.672.
St. Peters Catholic church, Barclay
street. New York, is 1913 years old.
More women are employed by the
British government than by that of
any other country. "
New York workmen dug up recently
in Broadway a cannon ball dating
back to British occupancy
Three-tenths of the earnings of a
Belgian convict are given to- him on
the expiration Of his term of imprison-
ment. VII -"
An English sportsman works his au-
tomobile and yacht in combination
When the former is aboard it drives
the boat. ...- ...
Quartz lamps are experimentally in
use on the streets of Chicago and are
said to put the other electric lamps in
the shade.
NJ. II. Williamson of Chicago has
found in Mrs. Belle Scott Of Kansas
City, Mo-, daughter lost to him for
fifty years. VI.
Canada has its rural population prob
lem also. Within the past ten years
100000 persons have left its farms for
towns and cities.
On a new clock dial for quick read
ing the figures for the minutes are
placed in a circle outside the hour fig
ures and are larger.
Individual glass rooms with private
telephones will be provided patients
recovering from infectious diseases in
new Chicago hospital.
Government horticulturists are try
ing to develop rose that will grow
in the United States and from which
altar of roses can be distilled.
The colony of the Straits Settlements
consists Of number Of small islands
in the archipelago and small tracts on
the mainland of the Malay peninsula
A curious feature Of the apparel
trade in Afghanistan is the extensive
use made of castof uniforms of Euro
pean soldiers, policemen, postmen, etc.
! House building in France is a slow
process, a year being usually required
to put up building that in the United
States would be- completed in three
months. . ;.,s' "..~ .
| The efforts Of the Italian govern
ment to colonize the vast new terrific
|tries in Africa may. in the future have
some effect on the emigration to the
| United States ,-..s. -
i Three Of the buoys of the ill fated
| Andree' expedition to the north pole
have been found: Disaster, probably
overlook Andree between Franz Josef
Land and Nova Zembla
The first crematory in the Neither
lands was recently completed near
Amsterdam. In it the flames do not
touch the body,: but heat the air to a
degree which pulverizes it. Ss@
DR.. Lobeck Of Leipzig has invented.
| it is said. superb method Of steriliz-
ing milk. He heats the milk suddenly
to temperature of 1875 degrees f.. fol-
lowed by a sudden cooling.
In order to furnish high class enter
tainment to communities in their states
the universities of Wisconsin, Mime
sofa and North Dakota have banded
together for lyceum service.
! The sale of hemp is now made upon
selection and valuation by experts
who judge the quality and value by
sight and touch, their judgment being
founded upon years Of experience.
The continual stress of their occupa
ton is said to be having a pernicious
effect upon the teeth of London motor
omnibus drivers. One dentist has sc
many of the men among his patients
that he gives them reduced terms.
In the last four years number OF
important nations have adopted the
compulsory use of the metric system
Among these are Denmark, China. ia
pan, the five republics of Contra
America. Bulgaria. Chile. Uruguay anG
SIAM -'.<.s.... ....'.-s
! The present chief holder of radium
in the world is Nine: Curie of Paris
who has between &c and 3 grams
The Radium institute of London is The
next largest holder, having recently
acquired from Sir Ernest Cassel the
gram he owned. 49, .,t.. 50.
On a lonely fell on the border d
Cumberland and Northumberland is E;
house in which a fire Of peat has burn
! ed. continuously for the last 200 years
The house is: occupied by William
Goodfellow. and it has been in til;
family for over GOO years.
1ns recently erected Partisan the
i alter spiral stairWays built entirely Of
concrete have; been; installed in fire
1 proof shafts. These stairWays are. in
j tended to give, firemen access to al
:, parts Of. the building without inter
ference with the public entrances and