Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1914 — ROUND THE WORLD [ARTICLE]

ROUND THE WORLD

Cuba's national debt Is now SSB, 717,300. Boston has a department store 100 years old. Guam has a total population of 12,517 persons. Many Germans are residents of Bar celona, Spain. Cleveland Is revising Its tenement building code. Cleveland has added eighty men to Its police force. St. Louis has nine golf clubs, each with Its own course. Paper pulg Is now being made from bamboo In Formosa. Dresden has had a municipal newspaper for fifty years. Cement Is largely used for garden furniture In Belgium. France ranks third among nations in poffee consumption. Palestine this year exports nearlj--600.000 pounds of almonds. Bombay cotton mills pay operatives about S9O a year In wages. Thp paving of streets with wooden blocks originated In Russia. The wages of Scotch miners have been reduced by 0 cents a day. Chief of Police Gideon wants women for truant officers tn Philadelphia. The increase of orchard area In Tasmania is at the rate of 2,000 acres a year. Germany buys much tobacco in Turkey, but chiefly of the cheaper grades. The candle lamp has been so improved that It Is used on bicycles and motorcycles in Paris. Mont Heinzen, Switzerland, is splitting, and great landslides may any day overwhelm several small villages.