The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-02-24
ROUND THE WORLD


quay is to be named Atlantida.
Vigo, Spain. has $4,000 inhabitants |
who depend largely on fisheries.
N1exico's first button factory has been
started in Mexico City Ecuadorian
ivory nuts are used.
A press weighing 1900 tons has
been manufactured in England for
bending armor plate.
Dean George Hodges of Harvard
theological school. says the world never
was socially better than it is now.
Alloys Suizer of. st. Louis is protected
from kidnapping by his first wife by
a big bulldog provided by his second
wife
India annually exports about mil
lion pounds Of fish maws and shark
fms for edible purposes, mainly to other
oriental lands.
Chicago makers of women's ready to
wear garments employ over 100000
persons and have yearly output
valued at 100000
The British meteorological Office has
established a station for furnishing
weather information and forecasts to
aviators and aeronauts.
In Chicago young woman caused
the arrest of her beau for yowling
like a eat under her window TO at
tract her attention at midnight.
There are about 800 electric stations
In the United States equipped with ice
making plants profitably to utilize the
surplus power in the summer months.
The importation OF cotton prints has
gradually dropped TO nothing in Japan,
because Of the increased manufacture
at home OF the cheaper grades of cot
ton goods.
A new German machine cleans and
en- ones. and packs them in boxes oil
tubes at rate OF from 10000 Il
200 600 q day.
Honoring the memory of John
kinzie, Chicagos first civilian, bronze
tablet has been unveiled at Pine and
kinzie streets. under the auspices OF
the Chicago Historical society.
Southern Belgium is likely 10 OBJ
/ tain graf water supply from an IN
Il short time ago. AT present it is de
/ pendent on rainwater.
| 1t is a common saying in the far cas-
| that Japan pays its national debts il
/ raw silk and silk products. The mi
/ kado's realm last year sold 100000.
! 900 worth OF these materials abroad.
/ During recent election in Swedel
J NJ Cd ha
! only SO per cent of the women voter
We're disqualified for failure TO pa.
! taxes as compared with 246 per cen
of the men.
A French society for the encourac &c
ment Of national industries recent,
awarded gold medal 10 a farme
who established sauerkraut factor
in which all the machinery was elee
trically driven.
That an ostrich farm is OF NOR
value than a good cattle ranch
shown by an authority who puts th
value Of n beef animal at $40 at fv
years OF age. while an ostrich OF Tn
same age is worth $500
Paraguay tea (yerba matel is becou
ing formidable rival OF tea and cot
fee in South America. Brazil export
ed over S10.0O0oO worth of it las
year. After coffee and rubber, 1t
now the most important of BraZii's e,
ports.
Pupils in a German school were RI
Gently tested as TO their reading c
newspapers. In the highest elementar
class of forty-four, twenty-five rea
a newspaper every day, fifteen a
least once a week and four less fr'
quently.
An interesting new farm produc
the 'beetato." is a hybrid. between a
Irish potato and red beet 1t ha
J the shape of potato. the meat bein
deep purple. Great possibilities ar
claimed for the product as n food.
farmer at Silver Springs Station, Ore
is experimenting with the hybrid.
An English case of separation is r.
corded where the wife waived alimon,
STIMULATING only that she should IL
be disturbed in the use OF i room
house owned by her husband. whei
she had a machine and earned ht
living as SeamStreSS. This was ais
inserted in the separation papers.
The department of agriculture h:
: issued the largest water power perm
+, ever issued by that body. grantii
rights to the Pacific Light and Pow
company of Los Angeles to opera
power plants in the Sierra nation
forest. 1t will carry electric pow
: 240 miles to Los Angeles and vicinity
o There are more deaths than births
q Prussia. and the only augmentatit
: OF the population is by f1literates fro
the near east. France has just vot,
large grants to parents who have mo
than two children, and it is consider
!, likely that other states suffering fro
: the loss OF native population may
y likewise.