The Adair County news., 1911-11-29
TIMELY BREvITIES

introduced the latest sanitary devices.
In the point Of wealth. Japan ranks
seventh among the nations of the
world.
Victoria, B. c., is building an add.
ton to its parliament buildings to cost
$1,000. 900.
Germany's fresh water pearl fisher
les in the White Eister are threatened
with extinction.
Both in England and in Canada the
cheese supply is short this year be-
cause Of the summer drought.
Two Paris department stores use
storage battery driven electric tricycles
to deliver purchases to customers.
OF 81 Indians trained at Hampton
institute 81 per cent are known to be
profitably employed in various lines.
Sumatra is famous the world over
for its cigar wrappers and tobacco
plantations have spread to neighbor-
ing isles.
German engineers have perfected a
machine for weighing locomotives
which provides separate scales for
each wheel
The Brazilian state of Amazonas won
the chief prize for the best exhibit in
the recent international rubber exhibit
ton at London
All of Switzerland's glaciers are re-
ceding perceptibly, one notable one
having shrunk more than 1000 feet in
the last ten years.
Pineapple fiber, while not quite past
the experimental stage. is considered
In the far east promising commercial
factor Of the future
The cry is now for the individual
drinking cups. In Queen Elizabeth's
time every guest at banquet brought
his own spoon with him.
Of the nineteen mines producing
quicksilver in the United States last
year fifteen were in California and two
each in Texas and Nevada
Because aims boxes in Westminster
cathedral in London were often robbed
at night bulldogs are now placed on
guard in the church after dark.
In order to handle automobiles easily
several railroads have adopted a new
style of freight car having doors the
full width and height of the car.
The public debt of the United States,
which was $S3, 0OO. 900 in 1900, reached
$2.675. 100000 less cash in treasury in
1865, and the figures in 1911 were ST.,
O15.OOO,OOO.
About 250.O00 immigrants are turned
back every year by the immigration
officials of this country. To guard the
ports and boundaries against those
whom the law forbids entry the gov
eminent employs nearly 1000 trained
men.
Spain is considered by art collectors
lucrative field. and many interesting
antiques are picked up here from time
to time. Seville has numerous shops
where antiquities are sold and where
the old Spanish needlework may be
purchased.
The largest telephone exchange in
existence is that at Hamburg, which is
taking care Of 10000 lines at present,
but accommodations have been made
for future extensions so that this ex-
change will be enabled to take care of
twice as many lines.
The New York city fire department
has the biggest fire engine in the
world. Both its motive power and the
power for driving its pumps are fur
nished by gasoline. and it is capable
of pumping 1000 gallons of water a
minute on 200 pounds pressure 1t
weighs more than five TONS
The new French hot air balloon car
ries ring Of kerosene burners to give
constant and easily regulated sup
ply of heated air. 1t does not quickly
cool like the ordinary hot air balloon.
and. unlike the gas balloon. it has no
gas to explode and can be inflated any
where and at small expense
Boundaries are now being located
for one of the greatest game preserves
in the world in western Canada 1t
will be owned ny the government and
will take in practically all the east
Slci" of the Canadian Rockies. ex-
;,.dir" north and south for 500 miles
and will average more than thirty
ulieS in width
Another historic old landmark has
passed storm recently felled the
tree near Nederhemert. under which
Floris L.. count of Holland. Was peace
fully sleeping after the battle of Neder-
hemert in 1861 when he was treacher-
ously murdered by Herman van Kuyk.
The tree was believed to be over a
thousand years old
Ellen Terry says in her lecture on
Shakespeare's women that when man
writer's draw good woman they draw
a silly one. Helena in "AlHs Well
That Ends Well'' and Julia in 1.-TWO
Gentlemen of Verona" she character
ICES as doormat women. Miss Terry
considers Imogen the loveliest Of the
characters of Shakespeare
1t is said that Miss Christabel Pank-
hurst took up the cause of woman
in England because she was
not allowed to practice law. although
she had passed successfully all the ex-