The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-01-25
TIMELY BREvIT!ES

Australasia embraces an area of
3.2SS.OOO square miles
An ordinary gas jet consumes as
much oxygen as i've persons.
Tungsten salts have been found to
be valuable for fireproofng textiles.
Japan is increasing it's production of
| raw silk at rate of about 10000
bales a year.
About 100000 penguin eggs are gath
cred from nearby islands and sold
for food in Cape Colony each year.
Owing to the difficulty of securing
! fresh eggs most of the mining COM
panies in Mexico have their own poul-
try yards.
Portugal is the most illterate coun-
try in Europe. Three out of every
four adult Portuguese can neither read
nor write.
Last year the geological survey fixed
prices on 259S621 acres of public coal
! lands and classified 10S51,512 acres Of
noncoal land
The Philippine Islands are now tne
! largest producers of cocoanuts in the
world About one-third of the whole
! crop is grown there.
| General Botha. prime minister of the
| Transvaal. says that never before In
the history of South Africa were there
such solid signs of prosperity.
Norway has found it immensely prof
| liable to propagate the cod, catches of
the fish having steadily increased each
year that fry have been planted.
The smokeless powder factory of the
| Mexican government has been COM
pleted Its annual capacity is 10000
pounds of powder of the best quality
Explorations made during the last
| few years have led biologists to the
conclusion that the gulf coast of Mex
leo has great possibilities as an oil
! field
| The Turkish authorities have forbid
den the export of mules over certain
height from the vilayet province) of
| Bagdad They are being collected for
army use by the government
An Italian soldier has invented light
metal attachments by which a sledge
|
| minutes from a pair of skis. an alpen-
stock and other military equipment
At FelixstOwe. England a fisherman
lost his hook in attempting TO land
| fish. Immediately afterward the same
| fish, with the hook in its gillS. was
caught by another fisherman near by.
England sent last year to French
West Africa 31.61S pounds of beads so
as to give the natives something TO
put on their strings to play with But
for those beads England got about 81
100000 worth of rubber.
The street condemnation jury of Mil
waukee visited Lindwurm park in that
city recently and condemned an inch
| of land claimed by a cement com
| pany The inch of land in question
was needed to give the city access TO
| the river.
| In spite of intelligent efforts to re-
duce infant mortality in the United
| States. the census bureau reports that
nearly one-fifth of all the deaths re-
ported in 1909 We're of infants under
one year of age. and over One-quarter
were of children under FIVE.
While the population of Australia
4,374 1881 is very small in proportion
to the enormous area of the country.
the per capita purchasing power of the
people is undoubtedly considerably
above the average of most countries of
! the world.
A bomb has been invented by Bos-
| ton man for destroying insects in trees
The bomb explodes over the tree. dis
charging a poisonous powder. which
settles over every limb and branch
The pervasive scattering of the poison
is the chief advantage of the method
| Announcement has been made by an
American of the completion of plans
for founding an entirely new city in
Lower California. directly on the line
of the new San Diego and Arizona
railway, near the old town of Tia
Juana and the international boundary.
Rosario. Argentina, on the river Pa
rama, is the second important city of
that country. Ii has population of
about 100000. With its modern facil-
ties and improvements it occupies Il
strategic position in South American
commerce and ranks next 10 BuenoS
Aires.
For the purpose of making the tee
phone booth really sound proof a Ger
man inventor lines 1t with tin II
seems that the lining is in every way
most efficient. The result is that
German publication now advises all
architects to either use tin or Alumni
um in the walls of houses generally
! to deaden sound.
A French banker who died recently
left a collection of $4,000 cigar bands,
each differing in some particular from
the others They had cost him fifty
years of smoking and had been ar
ranged Systematically In a number of
specially constructed cabinets His
children. not caring to keep the bands,
sold them at auction for "a.
W. ID. Murphy. the celebrated New
4 Work artist Whn hos iptod pnrfroi to