Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1914 — ROUND THE WORLD [ARTICLE]

ROUND THE WORLD

Philadelphia has a professional woman chauffeur. California shipped 1.500.000.000 oranges last year. Street railways in Cleveland killed thirty-three persons in 1913. Aunt Dorcas, an Atlanta negress. is believed to be 104 years old. South Africa is buying bicycles again with considerable enthusiasm. Divorce decrees were granted to 70S women*in New York city last year. Men’s collars manufactured in England every year number about 20,000.000. London has a club whose object it is to help working .women who have talent for writing. St. Louis is to have a school for teaching domestic science to girls in tenement districts.

In the British navy the chief cause of admission to hospital is disease of the digestive system. Licorice root is a pest in some parts of Russia and Turkey, interfering with the cultivation of the land. An experiment with four blind telephone operators is now being made in the general postoffice in Turin, Italy. The Rev. A. Smythe Palmer preached in Wanstead. England, tr sermon which consisted of 800 monosyllabic words. Traces of radium have been discovered in the interior of Madagascar, and a company has been formed to exploit the deposits. The natives of New Guinea submit freely to vaccination, accepting it as a protection against sorcery, guaranteed by the government. King George of England is the only European sovereign who smokes a pipe. All the others are ardent devotees of the cigar or the cigarette. Vera Cruz. Mexico, has the distinction of being the wettest place in the western world. It has an average annual rainfall of ISO inches. Like a sectional bookcase, an Ohio inventor’s corncrib can be increased in size to accommodate a crop by the addition of metal sections. The whaling season of 1913 eclipsed all previous records, the total yield of oil for the world in that year being estimated at 800,000 casks. More than 30,000,000* pieces of glass will be required for the 500 mosaic panels being prepared for a cathedral which is to be erected in St. Louis. , The Belgian chamber of deputies has passed a bill granting a pension of 360 francs a year for miners fifty-five years of age who have worked forty years in amine.

There is a movement under way in England to have leather bought and sold by measurement instead of weight to prevent its weighting by worthless or injurious chemicals. Germany has considerably outdistanced France since the nineties as regards the total sum of the national wealth, but France is still in advance in her per capita wealth. Using delicate electrical apparatus for his experiments, a German scientist has reached the conclusion that fish are of the same temperature as the water in which they live. The greater proportion of the population of Baluchistan are nomadic in their habits and dependent for their livelihood on a casual kind of agricul ture and the raising of live stock. France is becoming a serious com petltor of Germany as a producer of toys, to the value of over $9,500,000 a year. Germany’s production Of toys amounts to about $29,750,000 a year. It is believed that previous to civili zation baldness was unknown among American Indians. The uncivilized In dian apparently is yet free from pellagra and almost immune from cancer. Successful efforts are being made to revive the silk industry in southern Spain, which for several centuries formed its most important industry. Heavy taxatioli and a silkworm disease killed it about the middle of the last century. The finest hotel in the world, according to the plans of its projectors, Mr. Mallaby-Deeley. a member qf parliament, is to be erected in London, opposite the entrance to Hyde park. It will occupy nearly two steres and will cost more than $6,000,000. During the year 1913 the Re; a! National Lifeboat institution ma ntihnd a fleet of 274 lifeboats and s.tv<d forty vessels of various sizes. Since the institution was established in 1824 it has been granted rewards for the saving of over 51.400 lives from shipwreck on the coasts of the United Kingdom. I .