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ROUND The WORLD

lOO years old, II Is said.
Siam has three kinds of trees that
| produce arboreal cotton.
Pittsburgh is making a determined
effort to abate the smoke nuisance.
Philadelphia is now using its new
northeast boulevard, which cost $3,OOO,-
600.
The earning capacity of a woman
determines her right to a vote in Nor
way
Within the head of the crown of q
new stetn winding watch there is in
serted mariners compass.
The candy bill of the American girl
is $l34O00,000. $10.00O00O more than
the cost of the nations paint and var
nish.
There are no less than seventy thou
sand cities, towns and villages In this
country that may be reached by tele.
phone.
After years Of effort Berlin inven-
tor has succeeded In building a model
man that can walk, talk, sing, laugh
and whistle.
A gas buoy broke away from its
mornings in the St Lawrence and
drifted for two years, covering a dis.
tance of $4,000 miles,
England and Wales still have thou
sands of child laborers between the
ages of ten and fourteen in all the In.
dustries carried on in the cities.
The Kongo river and its tributaries
furnish waterways aggregating over
5000 miles navigable by fat bottom
river steamships of 80 to 500 tons.
In new type school desk both the
desk and chair for the desk in front
OF 1t are mounted on a single pedestal
and both are adjustable for height.
Automatic scales for the use of bank
ers have been invented On dial they
indicate the weight as well as the value
of quantity of coin, silver or gold.
A convict who escaped from Jail at
Lydenburg. South Africa. was captured
on farm, where he was masquerading
as a policeman In search of himself.
japanese whale fishing prospered
last year. especially off the coasts of
Korea. The principal Japanese whal-
ing company declared II per cent
dividend
With an instrument of his invention
a Chicago man can measure one i've
milliOntb of an inch, one-fftieth of the
distance revealed by a theoretically
perfect microscope
The discovery In an Austrian ceme-
far rf .,lu t,1fr lat hn
second or third century upset the theo-
ry that the ancients depended on pol
ished metal to see themselves.
Artificial sandstone, strong, imperme.
able and practically fireproOf, Is now
made in the Philippines by the steam
ing process from sand, volcanic tuff
and andesite and basaltic rock.
1t has been ascertained that there
are in Philippine waters excellent sar-
dimes and anchovies in commercial
quantities under conditions that seem
to offer inducements to Gamers.
There are said to be nearly or quite
1000 varieties OF rice in the Philippine
Islands. 1t is probable that some Of
these will prove nearly duplicates, but
the actual number OF varieties is very
great.
An international institute for geo.
graphical exploration has been estab-
lished in Christiania. 1t will include
a laboratory for the equipment of ex-
ploring expeditions and will devote spe-
cial attention to polar research.
The Church of the Holy Ghost of
Heidelberg is the only one In the world
Catholic services are held at the same
time. A partition wall in the center
separates the two congregations.
Moscow's imperial Opera House re-
Gently sustained loss of approximate
ly $250,000 when the beautifully paint
ed settings for operas and ballets.
amounting to nearly lS0 pieces of dec
orative art, were destroyed by fire.
In the twenty-five years from 1887
to 1911 the number of human beings
killed by snakes In India was 54309l,
or an average of 2l.7G0 annually, ac-
same time snakes caused the death of
1SI ,436 cattle.
Recently in London at II book sale
the sum OF So was paid for very
rare first edition of pseudo-Sha
spearean play, The Ralgne of King
Edward the Third" The play is sup.
posed to have been written by Chris
topher Marlowe. assisted by Shake
speare.
One OF the newest and perhaps odd
est use for aluminium is its employ
ment in making the soles OF shoes TO
be used by workmen employed In wet
and damp places. The aluminium soled
shoe lasts much longer than an ordi.
nary shoe and Is said to be impervious
to damp.
The jinriklsha, or man drawn vehicle,
80 universal in the far east. is being
rapidly superseded by 'cycle rick.
sha." which was first put on. the mar
ket in Shanghai II is a basket chair
cycle combination. propelled by a coolie
riding behind and completely shielded
from the passenger.