The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-03-20
STRANGE THINGS
ARE HAPPENING
IN BIC WORLD
Takes to Great
Earrings; Austria Sell
ing Fine Jewels Mex
leo Trade Bunco.


Observation-Disclosures OF coal, iror
and steel have been moving sharpl,
upward in Great Britain. The gen
eral industrial expansion is continuing
but the improvement is slower thar
was expected by our British cousins
Italy shows increased production o.
iron ore. pig iron, steel and mercury
over 1921. Bank clearings have beer
increasing and the prosperity of tn,
country is attested by the fact tha'
there is a great increase in the mum.
Der OF automobile purchasers.
American flour is again being sold
in China. after a lapse of several de.
cades. The reason is attributed to the
establishment OF the Shipping Board
steamer service to China with favor
able rates.
Brazil has become a large exporting
country instead Of a lumber importing
country during the past ten years. The
United States having wasted its tim
Der supplies in many sections. is Bra
zirs principal customer.
Austria is no longer a great market
place for the sale of precious stones.
Since the war hashy and expensive
jewelry has become unpopular and pri-
vate possessions of jewelry have been
sold by their owners to foreigners.
Styles have changed since King Char
lie pussy-footed with the kaiser.
Wear Big Rings.
Egypt is having an inning in jewel
ry and the women are wearing ear
rings so heavy that their ears are get
ting out of shape. The result is good
for the beauty parlors and the mas
sage artists and they are prohting in
the craze to live up to Tutankhamen.
Persia is now importing its silk
worms from France, Italy and Turkey,
and the great silk industry that -four
ished in the land of the shah has been
virtually annihilated as the result of
the world wal and the collapse OF Rus
STA. a good many of the hand
made" Persian rugs are now manufac-
tured by machinery. Ancient Persia
gives every evidence that it is being
spoiled by the hand OF progress.
Mexican manufacturers who have
been cleverly outwitting their native
customers demanding foreign made
goods have encountered difficulties
with the Mexican government which
has decreed that all products OF Mex
lean manufacturers must hereafter
bear a Spanish trade mark or other in
dication that they are products of do
nestle manufacture. 1t is the prac-
tice of the deceptive Mexicans to
stamp their goods MADE in America
Made in St. Louis" etc. This meth
cd answers the .wo-fold purpose of
supplying supposedly United States
products, and at the same time beating
out the custom house, where high tar
ifs are the general rule with regard
to shipments of manufactured articles
in Mexico.
British Sense"
By what method OF reasoning Am
bassador Harvey thinks he is able to
talk about financial matters in COM
petition with Earl Balfour and other
British statesmen does not appear.
When it comes to dollars and sense
Britain has always demonstrated that
American journalists and diplomats of
the Harvey type still have to learn
a.b.c.'s. AS additional evidence
of the perspicacity and acumen of the
British. the latest m reports in
that the fiscal official year will
show a large budget surplus for the
Britishcrs.
American farmers will find comfort
the report made by the United
States government that Europe will be
{ o import at least o40, 100000
bushels OF wheat during the current
year.
Reports from Russia to the Depart
nent OF Commerce indicate that the
of Sovietland are changing
ustoms and that the crops and food
or the present year will be raised at
Iome instead of begged abroad.
The poor little gold miners OF South !
africa are recovering from their pow d,
rty as is shown by the fact that they
re buying more freely of machinery
DR. mining purposes. Not as much
an be said of Alaska, where low grade
re is no longer sought. and in conse- r
nence of this Alaska is pretty much
n the bum. The chief topic OF con-
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