The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1914-03-19
ROUND The WORLD

1,OOO kinds OF SauSageS were shown.
The average annual wage for Vic
toria, Australia, is almost $500 a year.
Sponge waste is used in many Ger
man industries, especially for stuffing
dolls.
In the Atlantic states there are four
motorboats to each thousand of popu-
lation. -.
Vienna licenses taxicab service, regu-
lating wages of drivers and fares Of
patrons.
Women's colleges in the United
States are better equipped than those
for men.
Cuba's best customer for cigars is
Great Britain, which takes 100000
every year.
Great Britain is now consuming
large quantities Of cider, the output in
creasing yearly.
The majority of the women of the
Roman aristocracy have decided to
Danish the tango.
The United States ranks third in tho
worlds shipbuilding industry, Germany
second and Great Britain first.
With a population only two-thirds az
great as the United States, Germany
has 100000 more labor union mem
bers.
An open air pulpit in the tower il
one of the features of new Presby-
terrain church at Palmer's Green, Eng
land.
Sheffield cutlery firms have subscrib
ed $55,5O0 for the purpose Of prescott
ing for fraudulent use Of the word
"Sheheld' abroad.
All the six sons of John and Mar.
Wheatland of South Croydon, England,
are in the royal navy. Their ages
range from sixteen to thirty-seven
years.
A Russian army captain has been ex
PEELED from his regiment at Smolensk
because Of the scandal offered to the
army in his humiliating subsection to
his wife,
One Of the German transatlantic
liners carries diving suits equipped
with speaking tubes for the use Of
members Of it's crew in fighting fires
below decks.
The charger used by Napoleon, which
was stuffed and placed in a Paris mrl-
scum, has just had fourth tail fitted.
All the preceding ones were taken by
visitors as curios. z., .
A young Norwegian recently skated
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sixteenths Of a mile. in two minutes
and nineteen and one-half seconds, a
new worlds record.
Five women whose aggregate wealth
amounts to more than $75,000,O0O We're
seen recently in New York depart
ment store at one time. and they We're
all buying remnants.
Brazil owes her wealth in coffee to
a monk who planted two seeds in a
monastery garden in Rio de Janeiro in
1854, whence the plants spread
throughout the country.
The Chinese are getting interested in
equipping their cities with electric
power and lighting plants. Within a
few years some hundreds of communi- .
ties are expected to take on electric
plants.
After an extensive experiment in a
clinic in Cologne the physicians an
nounce that the average pulse rate of
persons free from heart defects is fifty
nine minute during sleep and seven.
ty-four when awake, the subjects in
either case being at rest in bed.
The family of Mr.. and Mrs. Exor
Matthews of Grand Rapids Mich, con-
sists, besides the parents, Of twelve
children, all of whom are either skill
ed musicians or are taking lessons in
the use of some instrument. Each
parent is able to play two or three in
struments.
''Radium banks have been establish
ed in a few European cities. These
banks possess a few milligrams of "a
dium. They lend their radium for one
day for 5000 for surgical or other use
Radium salts, it is said, may be repeat
eddy used without losing any Of their
properties.
Pearls are alive in the embryonic
stage, says Professor Surat, of the
French museum, just returned to
France from the South Sea islands.
He found in the interior Of pearl oyse
ter shells, faxy layers containing the
larvae of microscopic taenia. around
which the pearl is built
). It is said that never before in any
time of peace in the worlds history
were there so many tents pitched in
one place as at the Delhi durbar sew
eral years ago., when the great major
fty Of visitors, including the king-em-
peror and queen-empress. occupied
tents just outside the city.
sponges have never been found in
the seas Of Japan, but recently some
were discovered about the Pescadores
islands They have just been exam
med by the scientific laboratory at Tai
hoku, and, while the species is of no
commercial value, it is expected that
good ones might be grown in the vicin-
ity Of those islands.
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