WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 538, 1 February 1913, Page 7

WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

THE SUEZ CANAL. The jubilee of the Suez Canal, work on which commenced in 1859, took place on the 25th of April. The canal was opened for traffic in 1369, and at that date the depth of water was 26 feet. The present depth is about 32J feet, and improvements are low going on which will bring it to 34 feet. The original width was 71 feet on the bottom, and this has been gradually increased, until at present the bottom width is 97f feet. In 1870 there passed through the canal 486 ships, whose gross tonnage was 654,914. Last year 3,795 ships used the canal, and their total tonnage was over 19,000,000 tons. COLD-WATER COFFER. Dr. R. Amory commends the use of coffee prepared by cold water instead of the usual fusion with boiling water,. It may be prepared by I assin,; the cold water through finely ground coffee in a porcelain or ; hina percolator. This extracts only rne-ninth of the caffein and onj-firth of the tannin contained in the bean,, and it -preserves the aroma of all the volatile oils in the bean. ' onse uently thj wakefulness, cxcitatil ty, and digestive disturbances are much with the cold water coffee. The doctor has found from personal experience that coffee thus prepared may l e carried for two or threo we:l.s without any loss of color.*, ere ma, or strength if it is kept in a cool place, carefully corked. .This infusion is made strong, and when it is wanted for use hot water or milk is added. This sets free the volatile oils and fragrant coffee results. —" Popular Science Siftin ;s." In the kingdom of Poland there was formerly a law according 1 to which any person found guilty of si n" er was compelled to walk on all fours through the streets of the town where he' lived accompanied by the beadle, as a si'gn that he was disgraced and unworthy of the name of man. At the next public festival the delinquent was forced to appear crawling upon hands and knees underneath the banqueting table and barking li e a dog. Every guest was at liberty to give him as many kicks as he chose, and he who had been slandered must towards the end of the banquet throw a picked bone at the culprit, who, picking it up With his mouth, would leave the room on ail fours. Few people have the least idea ol the power of the press in Germany. The newspapers may not be as up to date" as our own in point of direct news, but in respect of political intelligence, in regard to the issue of statements, more or less direct news, of a "campaigning" nature, our publications cannot for a single moment challenge comparison. The German public loves heavy mental pabulum—start an idea, write it up, write round it, introduce the hint open and the suggestion subtle, and the thousands of readers will peruse the finished product, discuss it and weave therefrom a perfect network of theories and interpretations. The German Foreign Office knows this well, and it is on this policy that it works.—F. A., in the ''Graphic/'