West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-04-23
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ROUND The WORLD
Labrador's populatIon Is 1000.

I WNkt N eisiA.
Cleveland may shortly annex tho
village of Euclid.
In parts OF Switzerland shepherd
| girls wear mems clothes.
| chile imports more than 100000 cnt. 2
Tie annually from Argentina.
! Trap shooting or clay target shoot
Ing IL practically unknown I'm Peru.
Statistics show that from 10 per
cont OF industrial accidents are fatal.
Philadelphia provides free eyeglasses
Tor nearly 1000 school children every
year.
Domestic servants are employed I'm
moro than 100000 homes I'm England
and Wales
Hongkong. China, Is badly I'm need of
n roofing that Will stand the rigors OF
that climate.
The 1913 crops OF cotton and corn
were tie most valuable ever produced
In this country.
Shopgirls In London have country
house where they rest nt intervals
from their l0bors.
Ninety five per cent of the steel pens
manufactured In the United States are
made at Camden. n. j.
About onc-twcnteth OF the blast
furnaces I'm the United Kingdom are
In the south Wales district.
y new Bohemian butter substitute
IL made of cocoanut oil. egg yolks and
Il small proportion OF cream.
Horses are scarce In Alaska. as IL is
too great an expense 10 provide food
FOR them during the long winter.
Tho same steam engine has been
pumping water out OF coal mine I'm
England for more than 100 years.
Philadelphia has 0,5GS factories. en-
ployng 35S,2lS persons and paying
$2OO033,G10 In salaries and wages.
lt IL stated that throughout Sweden
there are 100000 total nbstainers or
sbout 10 per cent Of the population.
Aluminium foil for wrapping pur.
poses IL being produced that is only
one-sixth or one-hundrcdth OF nm inch
thick
All field guns hereafter built for the
United States army will be so mounted
that they can bc used against aero
planes.
600 square miles, almost equal 10 that
OF the entire eastern half OF the United
States.
I'm Japan recently there was com
pleted II railroad bridge nearly seven
miles long. built of native materials
at n cost OF $375.O0O
In Switzerland only small tracts OF
forests nre denuded nt time. and the
ground from which timber is cut ~
Immediately repanted.
A Massachusetts inventors auto
matte fire alarm system may be at-
tnched to the electric lighting circuit !
I'm building 10 allow the latter To ring
Il bell.
The Hungarian government evident
iy considers chess n dangerous occupa-
tion, for IL has suppressed the national |
federation owing 10 some informality !
In It, articles OF Incorporation. 4
lt has been demonstrated that over
grazcd stock ranges I'm the national |
forests can be brought back to use
under n system OF regulated grazing
faster than If they are left unused. A
The government Of Brazil has begun
work on extensive systems or reser-
yolrs 10 enable the residents OF it's
northeastern states TO get water In !
long dry seasons, which frequently oc-
cur.
The last living link that bound Kit
! CarsOns memory 10 the world has dis
appeared I'm the death OF old Scout
Virgins at Denver recently. He had
been the one surviving member OF I
Carsons famous band OF trappers and |
SCOUT
The smallest church I'm Minneapolis, 4
MINI. measures exactly twenty feet |
from the sill OF its door TO the top OF |
the cross on It's splre. The church IL
used by Syrians and contains fifteen |
pews. quite enough 10 accommodate
those worshiping there.
More than 1,G7S.OO0 acres OF with
drawn lands I'm the western states were
restored 90 entry and about 5000
acres were withdrawn during Dccem-
bcr last, according 20 a statement Civ
en- ont by Secretary Franklin X Lane
OF the interior department.
A watch made entirely OF ivory
works. hands and case-is the produc-
ton Of VI. Henri Houriet OF Cbaux de
Fonds. Switzerland. The material en-.
+. ployed was taken from n billiard ball. /
The watch keeps good time. varying
only about minute q month.
A woman riding in trolley car in =
Philadelphia found nm umbrella and
by the Initials on the head traced is
owner and went 10 return Sc. The lat
ter. however. az FIRST dlsclaimcd t. but
later recognized Il as an umbrella
which she had lost Eve years before.
Tor n long time Great Britain was
wonderfully free from railway acct
dents. md the British papers had much
30 say Of the carclessnees Of American
railway management. but of late the
tab'o has been turned. and railway nc
cideuis are becoming almost ns IRE
Quent and fatal as they have been ~
the United States
Many members OF the geological sur
vey leave the government service at
the time when they have become most
valuable os public servants salary be-
Ing the incentive 90 change. OF forty
one who left 600 the Inst few years uli
are known TO have received salaries
outside Of the public service amount
ing 60 practically two and One-haf
times the salaries paid them by the
geological survey.
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