Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1914 — ROUND THE WORLD [ARTICLE]

ROUND THE WORLD

Atlanta is motorizing , its fire department. There are 450.000 saloons in the United States. The khedive of Egyyt is to have a gas-electric train. Most Dutch cities are several feet below the level of the sea. Kongoiand breeds a little native sheep which is without wool. A twenty ton balanced rock overhangs the village of Thomary, in France. Holland has 1,436 co-operative agricultural societies, with a membership of 156,000. The increasing popularity of American styles of office furniture is very marked in England.. Women prisoners at Blackwell’s island, New York, are taught to sew and make their own dresses. The United States ranks first in production, exports and imports in sixteen out of thirty-four industries. France will hold an international exposition of marine motors for vessels of all sizes from June to September. New York last year recorded 480 homicides and 9,163 robberies. Over 14,000 foundlings or lost children were picked up and cared for during the year. People in Tibet value highly the spectacles of smoked or colored glass that are sold to them by the Chinese because of the blinding brightness of the sun on the snow. In Paris recently all the three sections of the courts of cassation, fifty judges in all, convened together in order to decide a case brought before them in which the bone of contention was 25 cents. On the theory that air near the floor in a burning building is purer than that higher up, a mask has been invented for firemen that covers the face and extends in a tube to lower a wearer’s knees. Records in the Chinese language for use in phonographs have greatly increased the sales in a music store in China. The natives do not understand the foreign music and prefer their own language on records. London’s attempt to limit the speed of motor omnibuses to twelve miles an 4 hour has proved impractical, as when they are geared for this rate they lack reserve power for hill climbing and frequently cause blockades. In New Haven there is exhibited the earliest known skate, roughly fashioned out of the bone of a horse. It is at least 700 years old, is about twelve inches in length and was found in an excavation made in the" old city of London.

A new club for English residents in Paris, to be called the Imperia? British club, is to be opened in Paris by Jibing George. The new club, with a subscription of only sl6 yearly, will appeal to the 20,000 British residents of Paris. In the Cochetopa and Dike national forests in Colorado and the Tusayan and Coconino forests in Arizona 400.000 prairie dogs have been killed by the department of agriculture since its campaign of destruction was declared on the rodents. A hundred American teachers are maintained in schools scattered over Alaska by the United States bureau of education to take care of the 3.000 native children. These schools as> distinct from the public schools that are maintained for white children. The last of the four huge funnels of the Cunard liner Aquitania, which is being built on the Clyde, has been placed In position. This funnel is twenty-four feet wide and its summit stands 160 feet above the vessel’s keel. Each of the tour funnels weighs 1,500 tons. | The kaiser has forbidden the production at Herr Reinhardt’s Deutsches theater of a play called “Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia,’’ on the ground that one of the characters is a member of the Prussian royal family. There is no appeal possible from the kaiser’s censorship. An anonymous letter of warning which thirty-one people had apparently joined in writing was read in the London divorce court during the hearing of a case in which two naval officers were concerned. Each syllable of the letter, it was stated, was in a different handwriting. Michael Spartail, who died recently at Shanklin. Isle of Wight, at the age of ninety-five, was formerly consul general for Greece in London. He was present at the funeral of George IV. and the coronation of William IV. Amoiift his friends were Gladstone. Cobden and Bright. After a suit involving household goods worth $212 bad been in the St. Louis courts for fifteen years and had incurred routine court costs of SSOO, a referee’s report recommended that the goods and the costs be divided between the litigants. Four persons connected with the suit have died since it w’as filed.