News and Miscellany

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 28, 1912

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— During the year 1911, 134,542 children were born in New York City.

— Captain Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, reached the south pole on Dec. 14-17, 1911.

— A machine has been invented which it is claimed will make possible the manufacture of paper from cotton stalks.

— More than $1,000,000 worth of raisins, 18,500,000 pounds, were exported from the United States in the last fiscal year.

— A theft of $50,000,000 from army funds in connection with the conduct of the war with Japan, was recently discovered by the Russian government.

— President Taft has selected Mahlon Pitney, chancellor of the State of New Jersey, to be associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States as successor of the late Justice Harlan.

— With “throw away your corsets” as a slogan, a movement has been started in New York among prominent suffragists to emancipate women in matters of dress as well as in politics. It is expected that the movement will become nationwide.

— The German Bureau of Statistics states that Bulgaria has 3,883 centenarians. This is more than half the number in all Europe. Rumania and Servia between them have 1,677; England has but 92, and the whole German empire but 76; while Denmark has only 2.