Show the girls of england have an organization cal called ed the girl guides that is becoming very useful as the boy scouts already are the girl guides are composed of ten thousand english girla who ate doing doial all they can to help their country in in its time of trouble every red cross hospital his has its corps of girl guides who wash the dishes do general cleaning and do all they can to help the doctors and the nurses at the camps for homeless beggins they nurse the children and are raising vegetables for the poor they do mending and darning for the soldiers and read and sing for the wounded heros and thus the girl guides of england are becoming famous as the spartan women of old wonderful stories are being told concerning tur a powerful death dealine dealin Lr explosive invented by a frenchman M turpin n of fame this mysterious composition it is said is being used in specially designed guns by the french in the present war according to some rather doubtful reports it has a roost most devastating effect killing whole battat battalions ions of german infantry and leaving them standing in their trenches in the position they were holding when the deadly ay blast struck them as though sud denly petrified the deadliness of this destructive agent is said to be due to poisonous fumes which spread rapidly in all direction the government estimates that in addition to the loss ot of in the cereal crops caused by insects the loss on vegetables is on fruit and on other crops enough more to bring the total loss up to 0 all in one kyzr AMU year the U S weather bureau his has announced that owing to a discontinuance of asiatic and european cabled weather reports incident to the war in europe europ and to the interruption of the alaskan cable service service the bureau will temporarily discontinue mating malting weather forecasts beyond the regular periods of 36 and 48 hours western australia produces more gold than any american state sends more pearls to europe than any other country except ceylon nd ind is said to have the richest belt of hardwood timber in the world because frosts do the most damage when the air is calm a paris scientist has advanced the theory that orchards and vineyards cm cin be protected by electric fans to keep the atmosphere moving A rich deposit of gold has been discovered on the river in the province of mindoro philippine Is islands laDds the deposit is said to be extensive and the nuggets of unusually fine quality the gathering of egret feathers is a new business at iquitos peru whence worth were exported last year 1 while chile a number of persons are stated to be preparing to collect feathers one of the objects of the australia Aus antarctic ant artic expedition will be the establishment lish ment of a meteorological station to give warnings by wireless of the severe storms storms which sweep the southern seas the rhe m milk 1 ilk of a single roquefort efort sheep will iti in one one year provide from 30 36 to 40 pounds of cheese in that district at al ire france there are about eight thousand sheep devoted to the cheese industry with the completion of a new rail road in western africa early axt year jt y it will be possible to cross the dark continent from the atlantic to the indian indian ocel ocean an by rail and river fiver routes california is advertising its canning industry tn motion pictures all over the world geologists estimate that the coal fields of shansi province china are great enough to meet the worlds demands for more than a thousand years irn ion ore has also been found in large deposits in central china and of the finest quality the wives of municipal councilors councillors counci lors in france have received the right to vote in place of their husbands on urgent matters such as sanitation and relief funds they will retain their new political rights while their husbands are arc away at war |