The Princeton union., 1914-09-17
ROUND The WORL D

593 persons
Spain last year imported 100000
tons Of coal.
Baltimore law school will not accept
women students.
Belgrade. capital Of Servia, has 1OO,-
900 inhabitants.
Baltimores public debt will soon
reach $1O0,000,0OO.
The steel trust spends $75O,OOO a
year in safety devices.
Policemen in San Francisco now
have one day off a week.
Kansas City is planning a municipal
farm for women prisoners.
In Tokyo the number of unemployed
frequently exceeds 100000.
The United States Osteopathic as
sociation has 1000 members.
Seventy-fve per cent of the trade of
Egypt is with British possessions
The personnel of the British navy is
about double that Of any other navy
in the world.
Munster, Ireland, has a crop area Of
1887, ,2O7 acres and a population Of
1,035, ,495 persons.
Dairen Leased territory, China, has
an area Of 1921 square miles and a
population of 517,147
John Burns, eighty-four, for twenty
seven years a park laborer in New
York, is now homeless and destitute,
Three million dollars has been spent
to bring the power Of a waterfall nine
ty miles to Bombay for electric light
| and power purposes.
A single stroke of lightning in the
Belgian Kongo killed nine men and
women and severely injured thirty-two
| other persons, two Of whom died later
There is a plan to safeguard Manila
| against the longest possible dry season
| by building high up on the Montalban
| watershed a two billion gallon reser-
| voir.
The Washington National museum
coin and medal collection of some
5000 pieces includes several Chinese
coins of the earliest type. dating back
to about 2254 B. C.
Over 10000 letters in reply to in
quiries from all over the state were
written by the faculty members of the
Agricultural college. University of Wis
consin. during the past year.
The largest car ferry to ply on salt
water in the world is nearing compile
ton at Philadelphia and soon after the
end of the year will begin service be-
tween Key West and Havana
That he can produce one horsepower
for each pound his engine weighs is
the claim Of the French inventor of a
motor depending upon the explosive
force of gunpowder for power.
coast of Western Australia total of
| 25,440 hundredweight of mother-of
| pearl shell was fshed at an average
! selling price last year Of $3.50 per
| ton
Sunshine, next to pure air, is held to
be the most valuable adjunct of nature
for the cure Of tuberculosis. Although
| cures have been made in cloudy re-
| giOns, sunshine seems to give moral
help and, other things being equal, is
much preferred.
Investigations by the geographical
survey of the erosion of numerous
drainage basins Of the United States
show that the surface of the country
is being worn away at the rate of about
an inch in 760 years.
The Philippine Islands produce ap-
proximately 100000 gallons of alco-
hol yearly. Almost all Of this is made
from the sap of the nipa palm that
grows in great abundance in various
swamps Of the country.
Ground cork and binding material
have been formed by French inven.
tor into cover for bottles that guards
them against breakage and keeps their
contents at uniform temperature
without using a vacuum.
Until quite recently the operators OF
hosting engines at work on tall build
ings were guided by hand signals, but
there is now successful electrical sys-
TEN by which the foreman controls the
engine by touch buttons in belt.
State monopolies and undertakings
in Japan yield an annual revenue of
about $64,0OO.OOO, Of which $25.OOO,O0O
comes from posts, telegraphs and tele
phones; $25,O0O,O0O profits from tobac-
co, $5,OOO,OOO from salt and $5.OOO.OOO
from forests.
There are large tracts of land in In
! dia-such as the deserts of Sind and
, the southwest Punjab-which are prac-
tically useless, but which to an impor.
tant extent are now being opened up
to agriculture by big irrigation schemes.
These works are Of three classes
wells, tanks and canals.
Private capital invested in timber
lands. mills, logging railroads and 9th
er forms of equipment in this country
reach an enormous aggregate. and the
lumber industry, which employs 739,
600 persons and has an annual outpu
valued at one and one-sixth billio1
dollars. is the third largest.
The government of Chile has estab
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