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Show TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES Owing to difficulties In transportation transporta-tion from India, Great Britain is suffering suf-fering from shortage of cottonseed, and oil cake for dairy cows Is steadily rising in price. The large sugar estate owned and managed for some years at Calainha by the PtMninieau friars bus been purchased pur-chased for $1,000,000 for Japanese su gar capitalists. ' Tills is the largest project yet undertaken in the island b; Japanese ;buslcess iiien. England, accepting men of nineteen to forty-one, inclusive, has 3,000,000 soldiers in the field. Germany, accepting accept-ing men of eighteen and forty-five, inclusive, in-clusive, has 5.000,000. Germany's permanent per-manent disablements are suid to be 3,500,000, or at the rate of 1,000,000 a year. King George rules over more Mohammedans Mo-hammedans than the sultun of Turkey, over more Jews than there are in l'ulestine and over more negroes thnn any other sovereign who is not a native na-tive of Africa. - 'A iondon cat, officially know' is the j "King's cat," is the only one In the j Kingdom to receive an allowance from : the treasury. He inhabits the Record i office and 13 cents a week is spent for ' his meat. For the unit of woman telephone operators op-erators to be sent to France a distinctive dis-tinctive uniform is being provided. Salaries range from SCO to $125 a ' month, with allowance for rations and quarters. Successful applicants must speak both French and English with , ease. |