ONE OF THE WORLD'S Sir Thomas Lipton at the THE QUEER SHAPED Shamrock IV is larger COPYRIGHT-LEANAT. NEWB because this is an inevitable result of light construction and hard racing for years. Once this happens to a boat she is ruined. Differences between the three boats are remarkable, even though built by men of the same school, men who have pitted their skill against each other for years. In at least two things the yachts are identical: displacement and water line length, for these are penalized under the new rule which brought out the four seventy-five footers (seventyfoot water-line) with the classic in direct view. Changes have been made in each as they have been (Continued on page 942) ON THE ROUTE OF THE CAPE TO CAIRO RAILWAY THROUGH CENTRAL AFRICA Njoro Lake, in the Uganda country, forms one of the beautiful bits of scenery that greet the eye of the traveler. Native herders everywhere care for the cattle. til he is hoarse, if a ball he drives injures someone who had a right to be there at the time he was struck, the victim can collect damages. A new form of insurance policy has been put out in New York whereby, for four dollars a year, the company guarantees the payment of damages to anyone injured by a ball driven by the policy holder. This means that should and ten thousand dollars for two or more persons. Another policy which the company gets out is one which insures you from loss in case your pearls are stepped on. Unlike other precious gems, pearls are decidedly fragile. It frequently happens that the string breaks and the pearls scatter on the floor. In a ballroom the chances are they will be broken. ONCE DRUDGERY FOR THREE The old slate quarries were worked with a hand drill and a pair of sledge hammers. EU STEAM FOR QUARRY UROPEAN slate quarries are changing their methods of cutting and recently the modern steam and compressed air jack hammers have begun to replace the old hand drills which required infinite labor to produce small results. The Diamond slate quarries at West Pen Argyl, England, and the Harvarth Quarry at Nagyharsany, South Hungary, have installed throughout the newest drills. The steam drills are only slightly larger than the old hand-hammer drills and their connection to the boiler is merely by means of a rubber steam hose, so that they can be transported about the quarry with ease. men to one woman and most of the women there are natives, but down in Central Africa there are 1045 women to every 1000 men. On only two continents are there more women than men: these are Europe and Africa. In the United States there are three and a half million more men than women. every man If in this country were mated there would still be left over more men than there are inhabitants in the entire State of Missouri. Altogether, it has been estimated, there are about five and a half million more men than women in the world and, as three and a half million of these extra men are in this country and as Asia and Australia have more men than women, the shortage of men falls upon Europe and Africa. In Europe the division is more nearly equal than anywhere else, there being 1027 women to each 1000 men. The most recent estimate of the world's population places it at 1,700.000,000. St. Gulischambarow, the investigator, found it possible to secure facts concerning the sex of 1,038,000,000 of these. Of this number he says there are 521,700,000 men and 516,300,000 women, making the majority of men 5,400,000. This gives us 990 females to every the world. Fifago it was estiAfrica had ONE MAN AND A MACHINE 1000 males in teen years mated that more The little device hammers out the slate with one man to guide it and without the slow pounding of the hand method. |