Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1914 — ROUND THE WORLD [ARTICLE]

ROUND THE WORLD

The forests of Florida contain 175 kinds of wood. The French output of briar pipes Is about 15,000,000 a year. The potato crop of 1913 is estimated at over 331,525.000 bushels. Present Parisian styles were worn by Cretnu women 4,000 years ago. Switzerland’s wood working establishments produce great quantities of excelsior. Denmark has between 7,000 and 8,000 automobiles, or about one to every 400 inhabitants. St. I/Ouls is to have a court for girls exclusively, presided over by two women judges. Cincinnati wants the government to establish there a military wireless telegraphy station. Clevelanders last yenr forgot 50,000 packages in street cars and reclaimed about half of them. One of the most pretentious town planning schemes ever meditated is to be undertaken at Delhi, India. Wyoming agriculture in 1913 had an output valued at $35,000,000. Manufactures were valued at $0,000,000. Washington Is to have a new postoflice building at the corner of North Capitol street and Massachusetts avenue. New York state has 148,051 factories, employing 1,236,150 persons, of whom 347,001 are women and 13,519 are children. Advertising Is difficult In Central ami South America because so large a part of the people can neither read nor write. France now prohibits the employment of young persons under eighteen in chromo lithography in ceramic works.

The Chicago public library has instituted free readings for the blind, and 150 women have volunteered to act as readers.

The Japanese army authorities consider the Austra Han-Arabian horses the strongest and fleetest animals for their cavalry. Recent surveys of an island in Nagasaki harbor havo revealed an extensive deposit of coal, while Japan bus found another coal mine close to its Sasebo naval station.

Experts havo estimated Hint if the forests of the world were scientifically operated they would yield the equivalent of from 30 to 120 times the present consumption of wood annually. Budapest, Hungary, lias n new regulation which stipulates that general shops be closed from 8 o’clock in the evening till 8 o’clock In the morning and provision shops from 8:30 p. m. to 5 in the morning. The Himalaya mountain territories officially known as Jammu and Kashmir state, but more commonly called Kashmir, occupy an area of 84.432 square miles in the extreme northwestern part of India.

Athletic games and general sports are rapidly growing In favor In Austria. Many societies devote themselves to certain sports such as bicycling, rowing, field and track contests, lawn tennis and the like.

The mixed commission has decided that the bridge over the Danube, to connect the Roumanian and Servian railway systems, is to be constructed at the village of Tziganesch, nlneteeu miles above Grula.

Delhi has a population of about 23G,000 people. The permanent population will probably be Increased by the residence there of 3,000 or 4.000 government officials when the new government offices are ready. At Small Point, Me., storms have thrown up on tlie beach for several years lumps of coal whose source Is a mystery. There is no ledge in the vicinity, and if there were a wreck of a coal ship nearby the coal would have been exhausted some time ago. During the rehearsal of a photo play at Turin recently three lions broke loose and attacked a mule barnessed to a cart. They killed and devoured the animal, then two were captured, while the third escaped into the country.

It is reported in the London Times that the government of Tunis is about to establish a reserve |to give refuge to the rapidly disappearing fauna of that country. It will include about 4,000 acres of wild mountainous country and an adjoining marsh of 5.000 acres.

The new municipal regulation Tokyo is putting into force states that any woman will have the franchise whose direct city tax amounts to more than the sum paid by any of the three principal male taxpayers in the city. Two out of 400.000 women will be enabled to vote.

The largest hydroelectric project in the world is being carried out in the Bombay presidency at a cost of $8,000,000. Power will be obtained from two great reservoirs about eighty miles northeast of Bombay city having a storage capacity or 380.000.000 and 2.800.000 000 cubic feet respectively. Years ago, in tin* Berlin parliament, it used to lie the custom to supply uot only the members hut the reporters In tlie gallery with brandy and water. Every member habitually spoke with a glass of brandy and water beside him, and when he had finished it a watchful atteudaut brought another. The value of Hungary’s agricultural returns does not depend on several large crops or on the products of certain specifiisl blanches of agriculture, but rather on the great diversity of its products, for there is probably no country in Europe in which so many branches of agriculture are carried on.