South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-11
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Many women OF Chile are employ
ed as car conductors.
midas cotton crop is estimated at
4.s0S 600 bales OF 40 pounds each
Rocks and stone buildings that are
struck by lightning often are magnet
lied by the electricity.
Bulgaria plans TO convert much OF
the territory acquired from Turkey
into vast tobacco field.
a Frenchman has invented a ma
chine FOR dealing cards said TO make
misdeals impossible.
The salaries Of college teachers
with rank OF professor range in this
country from S45O 10 $500 year.
DR. II. r. Frysette Of Chicago as
serts that the high steps Of street
cars are responsible for much lum-
bago and sciatica.
a French investigator has given
Julius Caesar the credit for being one
of the earliest and most earnest OPP
pOnents OF race suicide.
The Amazon river is 3.944 miles in
length, rising within 20 miles OF the
Pacific ocean and flowing clear across
the continent
What will be the highest concrete
structure Of the kind in the world is
railroad viaduct being built in
Pennsylvania, PAP feet above a stream
and 1850 feet long.
New York city is trying the expert
ment OF closing certain highways TO
traffic daily and letting the young
sters romp in them. Huge signs are
placed across these thorOughfares
reading: Street closed for play"
A former United States naval officer
has invented One-man submarine
carrying a full-siZed torpedo in its
bow, and with a plug that automatic
ally closes the opening when the tor
pedo has been fired.
The United States Of America is by
far the greatest steel producing cOun-
try on earth. Germany comes next,
with Great Britain third. The figures
for 1910 Che latest at hand for the
mOmenD show this country TO be
equal in steel products TO both Ger
many and the United Kingdom.
First steamship crossed the Atlantic
in 1888.
A child is born every 10 seconds in
Germany.
Paris has a map showing where.
within its limits, tango may not be
danced.
In Eldorado. O.. population 800,
not a single death was recorded in
1914.
United States naval officers have de
velOped a cOlored glass that renders
visible the fumes from smokeless
powder.
There is a tribe of Indians in Mexico
whose language is limited to about
/ 500 words, and who cannot count
more than 10.
In Japan there are 1872 people
/ for every 40 acres of land, 256 COWS,
/ 256 dOnkeys and 512 swine for every
square mile of land in the kingdom.
Twelve billion dollars worth of
potash deposits are within grasp of
/ the French army in Alsace, and will
/ pass into possession of France if the
/ province is held after the war
Charles HOffbaueT, the artist, who
/ while a student in Paris won a second
medal at the salon with his first pic
ture. a feat never before or since
I duplicated, is now at the 'front.' with
his regiment in France.
\ simple test for watered milk is in
I general use in Germany. A we'll
I polished knitting needle is dipped into
a deep vessel of milk, and Immediate
( ~ withdrawn in an upright position.
If the sample is pure, some Of the
/ fluid Will hang to the needle; but if
water has been added even i'm small
Z proportion. the fluid viii not adhere
To the needle
The Italian earthquake. coming in
\ the midst of the great war, recalls one
( curious effect Of a seismic shock i'm
1883. The cables connecting Aus
I tralia with the outer world were sud-
denly broken by a distant earthquake.
and the government, under the i'm
preston that an enemy had cut the
lines, modified the naval and mill
tarN forces in eadineSS IN renal at-
tack.-Pall Mall Gazette