The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-02
ROUND THE WORLD

Bolivia Is soon to have four new rall-
way lines.
Leeds, England. has adopted the
commission form of government.
Holland still reclaims land at the
rate of between 10000 and 25,000 acres
n year.
New York has more bachelor girls
than any other city in the United
States,
Duluth's city hall waste paper is now
baled and sold for the benefit Of the
city treasury.
1t is difficult to sell American cells In
Germany, where their taste is cons.d
cred too strong.
The United States sold to other coun-
tries about 2,000.00O000 gallons of pc
troleum last year.
Cleveland's new st Luke's hospital,
to cost 100000, will be equipped to
care for 200 patients.
A Cincinnati man was arrested the
pther day for ordering 800 pairs or
trousers made to his measure.
Two eminent German physicians
reported the case of a child that lived
until its fourth year without brain.
A nolseless bowling alley is French
novelty, one having been invented in
Paris In which the clash Of falling pins
is silenced.
It will take till 1925 to get rid of all
the copper coins circulating in France
and substituting for them the new
nickel coins.
At recent dinner OF college students
in Iowa City, Iowa, cheers for the col
lege were given successively in twenty
two languages.
About 30,OOO,O00 hares and rabbits
are killed yearly in the British isles
and nearly 100000 partridges and
pheasants.
New York has inscribed the names OF
thirty-two police heroes on bronze tab
lets placed over the entrance of police
headquarters.
After two years of experiments the
Philippine government is about to be
gin practical work In planting cam
phor trees all over the islands.
The number of ships passing through
the canal between Lake Superior and
Lake Huron amounted last year to
nearly three times the number passing
through the Suez canal.
The latest fashion in Vienna is tt
wear flowers tinged on the edges witt
blue or green. When flowers are pre-
sented a poem or letter is written OF
the petals with q fine pen.
Since 1900 sheep keeping has beer
declining In this country to a very
marked degree. The number of sheer
in that year was 81 100000. while the
present number Is 1872 per cent less
The importation to Spain of cotton
seed and rapeseed oil is practically
prohibited. The custom house dena
lures the imports with wood pitch o
coal tar to prevent the adulteratlon o
olive oil.
! Automatic apparatus has been per
fected to enable trains running at higI
speed to pick up any number of mai
bags without injuring their content
aud to deposit others gently in trough
beside the track
| Married for nearly seventy years. MI
and Mrs. William Batty of Breightor
SeIby, England, who are both almos
ninety years old, claim that they hav
never been photographed in their livet
and Mr.. Batty has never seen the sea.
Manufacturers of artificial legs ar
compelled to find a Substitute for th
English willow which has been here
tofore used because Of its Iightnes
and strength. The Port oxford ceda
OF the Pacific coast has many Of th
necessary qualities.
Hundreds of simultaneous mass NEE
ings were recently held In the diffe
ent cities and towns of Austria In IL
vor of woman suffrage At all of thel
resolutions were adopted declaring thu
1t was the general demand Of Austria
and local elections.
Assisted by trolley car AleXandt
Morton moved large house from OF
location to another In South NOrwal
Conn, in less than thirty minutes. I'll
city authorities gave him only so muc
time in which to do It, and with q
aid OF car aud large gang of me
with rollers the trick was done.
There is growing inclination
Sydney, Australia, TO introduce into d
mestic architecture the American met
cd of placing permanent fttings In d
rooms of a house so that the tena
, will need little furniture and the wal
( of the place will not be destroyed
{ the moving about of large objects.
, Among the eggs that are not fresh
t one that IL at least 1900 years old.
? was found recently at Nikopolis,
!, Egypt, in the tomb of a child who
0 name was Sextius Rufus. Alrea'
e more than eighty tombs have been G
n plored in that vicinity. Among t
finds are gold jewelry and elega
lamps,
Tuberculosis is one Of the most sc
e GUS public health problems Of the o
e ent. Active organizations to fight Il
n T.. I..ua