The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-04-30
ROUND The WORLD


nicipal market houses.
Germany thinks Of taking up serious
ly the growing OF soy beans.
England has ninety-two centena-
rians. Germany has seventy-six.
More than 100000 gross of pencils
are annually made in Philadelphia.
OF every 200 persons who live to be
| forty years of age. 125 are married.
Argentinian cattlemen are looking
for cheap and fertile lands in Brazil
There are 19s Presbyterian churches
in Philadelphia, with 54.33O members.
| Missouri'S 1913 wheat crop amount
ed to 35.390S:i3 bushels valued at
| $2S.5OJ, J,S46
st. Paul is the birthplace of a new
fraternal order. to be known as the
Cames OF the World.
Havana now has newspaper de-
voted to the interest of the equal rights
of women on the island.
John T BaylirS. ninety-on of Bos-
ton, boasts that he has smoked pipe
since he w;r-'twenty y-One.
The Germany navy has salvage
boat especially designed for the recov-
cry of sunken submarines.
Capital punishment was abolished in
Italy in 1879. Since then murders
have increased 10 per cent.
More than 100000 pianos are built
in this country annually. They are
valued at nearly $7OOO0.00O.
Granulated glass is being tried as a
preservative for the surface of wood
in England with much success.
plate sterilizing machine for hotels
and restaurants. automatic in its op-
Grafton. is Il Frenchmans invention.
Italy has joined several other Euro
pean nations in prohibiting the man
ufacture, importation and sale of alb
sinth
A novel traction engine literally
walks instead of rolls along, being pro-
vided with four legs shod with broad
shoes.
Swedish farm labOrers, who are
hired by the year, receive an average
wage of $50 annually, with board and
room In addition.
The first film play ever shown was
some forty feet in length. Quo Va
dis" which required 1900 actors, is
on film 5000 feet long.
In this country there are about 2T7,-
900 acres, sufficient to support $3.50
cattle or $4,000 sheep now worthless
because of the prairie dogs.
Japan is rapidly developing the cellu-
loid industry as all the raw materials
for its manufacture except nitric acid
are produced in that country.
The Bulgarian government has COM
miSsiOned an Austrian factory to coin
| a variety of pieces. 20, 10 and 5 sto-
links. One hundred stotinks equal 1913
| cents.
| Turkish tobacco has now become the
staple crop on eighty farms in South
Africa, all of which have been sue
cessful in the production Of this type
Of tobacco.
The English postofiice has 2.610,G5O
miles of single wire, made up of 313,-
SO5 for telegraph. 2,234,215 for tele-
phones and G2,030 for private and
leased wires
The granite statue of King Edward
| VII, recently dedicated at Aberdeen,
is believed to be the first granite stat
ue of a ruler erected since the days of
the pharaohs.
Philip Voss recently paid $50 for an
inch of land in New York city The
inch was needed to give him a clear
title to a piece of property which he
already owned.
The London Herald was the first
English newspaper to employ war
correspondent. This was George Bor-
row, who wrote Of the Carlist fighting
in Spain in 1899.
India has $4,000, 600 people, less than
half of whom can read even the ma
tive vernaculars. Nevertheless there
are Cos newspapers and 1902 peri
odicas published there.
The lowest human habitation is said
: to be that of the coal miners in Bo-
hemia, some of whom make their
dwellings Mt point over 1000 feet
below the level of the sea.
The department of public instruc-
ton and fine arts of Spain has been
allotted $63, 900 for use toward estab-
fishing and improving workshops Of
the country's Industrial schools.
J. Agricultural laborers in India are
usually paid in kind, but in the canal
colonies, where labor is scare, as much
as 81 cents day is paid for hired la
a bora high rate for that country.
During the past ten years more than
100000 persons are said to have been
h killed in India by snake bites, while
tigers, leopards and wolves have ac-
d counted for another l4,00O deaths.
The average area administered by q
y ranger on the federal forests Of the
United States is about 100000 acres
In Germany the area administered by
r. a man of equivalent rank is about 7OC
acres.
is Twelve cities aud towns of Ecua
dor are considering or have In course
le of completion waterworks improve
ments, six are studying sewerage
propositions, and three are considerin'
e. paving.
A flexible wire window screen tina
C. a Wisconsin man has invented Is al
tached to the lower sash in such
manner that it unrolls and fills tn
window to whatever extent the sasl
be raised.