The progress that Canada is making toward becoming the world's center for the manufacture of pulp and paper is indicated in figures recently published by the Department of Trade and Commerce of Canada.
The railroads of the United States, in spending approximately three hundred million dollars a year for locomotive fuel, are spending one quarter to one third of it "to kindle, prepare, clean, and maintain fires on grates when locomotives are standing still, drifting, or otherwise not actually at work.
Brazil, a field rich in possibilities for the cattle industry, has been a cattle country, although not a meat exporting one, since early colonial times.
"I predict that in the lives of the younger men now before me there will be seen from ocean to ocean in the United States the greatest system of highways to be found anywhere in the world," was the prediction of Senator Bankhead, chairman of the Senate committee on post-offices and post roads, when speaking recently in Atlanta, Ga.
In describing the educational phase of Boy Scout work, the chief scout executive declares: "The Boy Scout movement aims to reinforce all of the agencies which make for right living and character development in the youth of America.
The bill authorizing the secretary of war to make contracts for the diversion of water from Niagara Falls for fifty-year periods was passed by voice vote in the House of Representatives.
One of the principla measures taken by the Japanese Government authorities for the improvement of the agricultural returns of Korea has been the work of afforestation.
In the most sweeping of all decisions upholding prohibition laws, the Supreme Court of the United States has just upheld as constitutional and valid the Webb-Kenyon law prohibiting shipments of liquor from "wet" to "dry" states.
Lord Carmichael, soon to retire as Governor of Bengal, India, was presented with a farewell address recently by the municipal body of Darjeeling, the beautiful hill station to which official Bengal is accustomed to retire between March and November.
