The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-10
round THE WORLD

ku6 wear hch NtOthCb.
Chile imports more than 10000 cat
tie annually from Argentina.
Trap shooting W clay target shoot
Ing is practically unknown In Peru.
Statistics show that from to 4 per
cent Of industrial accidents are fatal
= Philadelphia provides free eyeglasses
for nearly $500 school children every
year.
Domestic servants are employed in
more than 10000 homes in England
and Wales. 1884,
Hongkong. China, is badly in need Of
/ a roofing that will stand the rigors of
that climate.
The 1918 crops Of cotton and corn
were the most valuable ever produced
| in this country,
| Shopgirls in London have country
house where they rest at intervals
from their labors.
| Ninety-five per cent of the steel pens
lnanufactured in the United States are
made at Camden. N. ].
About one-twentieth of the blast
furnaces In the United Kingdom are
in the south Wales district.
A new Bohemian butter substitute
is made Of cocoanut oil. egg yolks and
small proportion of cream.
Horses are scarce in Alaska, as it Is
too great an expense to provide food
for them during the long winter.
The same steam engine has been
pumping water out OF a coal mine in
England for more than 100 years.
Philadelphia has 9.56S factories, en-
ploying 35S.21S persons and paying
Soc, 933,659 in salaries and wages.
1t is stated that throughout Sweden
there are 100000 total abstainers or
about 10 per cent Of the population.
Aluminium foil for wrapping pur-
poses is being produced that is only
one-sixth of one-hundredth Of an inch
thick.
All field guns hereafter built for the
United States army will be so mounted
that they can be used against aero
planes.
The area Of Alaska Is nearly co.,
900 square miles. almost equal to that
of the entire eastern half of the United
States.
In Japan recently there was COM
pleted railroad bridge nearly seven
miles long. built of native materials
at cost of $4,000.
In Switzerland only small tracts of
forests are denuded at time, and the
ground from which timber Is cut is
Immediately replanted.
A Massachusetts inventors auto
matte fire alarm system may be at
tached to the electric lighting circuit
in building to allow the latter to ring
a bell.
The Hungarian government evident
~ considers chess a dangerous occupa-
ton. for 1t has suppressed the national
! federation owing to some informally
in its articles Of incorporation, 20, -
1t has been demonstrates that over
grazed stock ranges in the national
forests can be brought back to use
under system Of regulated grazing
faster than If they are left unused.
The government of Brazil has begun
work on extensive systems Of reser-
volrs to enable TIE residents Of It's
northeastern states to get water in
long dry seasons. which frequently oc-
eur.
The last living link that bound Kit
Carson's memory to the world has dis
appeared in the death Of old Scout
Virgins at Denver recently. He had
been the one surviving member of
Carson's famous band of trappers and
scouts.
The smallest church in Minneapolis.
Mimi. measures exactly twenty feet
from the sill of its door to the top e.
the cross on it's spire. The churci i,
used by Syriaus and contains iifteel
pews. quite enough 60 accomlnod1t,
those worShliAng there.
More than i.8TH.UO acres of with
drawn lands in the western states were
restored IL entry AMI about 5000,
acres were withdrawn during Devein
Der last. according to statement llV-
en- out by Secretary Franklin *. Ian,
of the interior department.
A watch made entirely of ivory
worka bands and case-is the prodnc
ton Of NJ. Henri Houriet of Chaux dc
Fonds. Switzerland. The material EN-
ployed was taken from a billiard ball
The watch keeps good time. varying
only about minute a month.
A woman riding in trolley car il
Philadelphia found an umbrella and
by the Initials on the head traced its
owner and went to return it. The lat
Ter. however. Mt first disciaimed it. but
later recognized it as an umbrella
which she had lost five years before.
For long time Great Britain was
wonderfully free from railway acct
dents. and the British papers had much
TO say Of the carelessness OF American
railway management. but Of hate the
to III. .l,as p,aar turnad and rail xyav NO.