Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-10-30
round THE WORLD
Holland has 1914 shipyards.

Canada's total debt Is $4S3 .232 $50.
Greece is heavy lumber importer.
There are 100000 Slavs in the
United States.
New Zealand hotel employees work
six days Il week.
Wild animals work great havoc in
India's wheattields.
The United States has 22S,OOO Bo-
hemians and Moravians.
Roumania before the war considered
tunne.ing under the Danube.
Los Angeles property Is valued at
81. O59. O75.G4O for taxation purposes.
Boston's tax rate for 1915 has been
fixed at $3.50. an advance Of 20 cents.
Ninety per cent of the farms Of this
country are said to be without any
sheep
The United States this year awards
81. 599.362 to militia Of the various
states.
Australia last year received 140,251
new settlers. OF these 122.443 were
British.
st. Louis theaters have just spent
$4O.0UO for fire prevention and safety
devices.
Baku. Caucasus. now has a popula-
lion Of 217.S53, Of whom 93.9S2 are
females.
The beautiful overhanging sterns Of
the modern vessels are being replaced
by the "cruiser stern"
Recent irrigation works have added
37O.O0O acres VI arabic land to the
crop producing resources Of Spain.
The only two great European capitals
that have never been occupied by n
foreign foe are London and st. Peters
burg
Professor Habbite Of Paris has hun
home in small wire cages. He studies
them.
Both fine lace and strong ropes are
made from the Siberian nettle. In
Sweden nettles are cultivated for cattle
fodder.
From the seeds OF the castor oil plant
q German chemist has extracted what
Is said to be the most powerful poison
known.
Spanish railroads are conducting en-
ergetic campaigns Of education to i'm
prove agricultural conditions along
their lines.
The island on which is situated the
Eddystone lighthouse Is the smallest
bit Of all the year around inhabited
land in the world.
According to government statistics,
America takes 90 per cent Of the
cheese mostly from goats milk ex'
ported from Greece
More than half the worlds popula-
ton live in the tropics Of the old world.
Under British rule alone are over $685.
OOO.O 900 tropical natives.
The Italian city Of Milan has changed
from gas street lighting to electricity,
generating it's current by Alpine water
falls. nearly 100 miles away.
In Switzerland there has been in
vented an electrically operated coin in
the slot machine for cleaning the sides
and soles of a persons shoes.
Amber Is the mineralized resin OF
the pines which once covered the
plains of northern Europe. The best
Is found in northern Germany.
The newest idea in theater construc
ton is the hidden orchestra, which Ii
located under the floor of the house
between the stage and the auditorium
Hostilities once broke out between
sweden and Poland because in an Off
cal dispatch the king of Sweden:
name was followed by only two e
cetcras as against the king of Poland.
three
Western Australia produces more
gold than any American state. sends
more pearls to Europe than any othe
country except Ceylon and is said t
have the richest belt of hardwood tim
Der in the world.
The practicability has been demon
slrated of constructing IL bridge on tn
rocky reef called Adams bridge. whicl
connects the island of Ceylon with tn
mainland Of India The distance u
twenty two miles.
As the result of the lowest Nile re
corded for century some 10000
acres Of productive land in Egypt re