The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-12-27
TIMELY BREVITIES

$1,000 mile TO build.
Havana is meditating an auto omni-
bus service, as in many European
cities
White canary birds have been bred
in France and are on sale in the pet
shops of Paris
California mines have yielded more
than S100000.O00 of quicksilver in the
last sixty years.
Classed according to color, there are
5,422. S92 white farmers in this country
and 917.469 others
The worlds largest drydock, 1856 by
100 feet. has been completed at Belfast
after eight years work.
The present population of Belgium, a
country containing only 1873 square
miles. exceeds 7.317,OO0.
The great volume of China's book
printing is still done from stones and
blocks. on one side of the paper only.
Last year there were 10000 persons
in the United Kingdom with incomes
Of over $4,000 year. The average of
these was $63.10j
The worlds hop crop for 1911 is eSti-
mated at 132,OOO,OOO pounds. which is
100000 pounds below the average of
the last ten years.
There have been more patents issued
in the last twenty years in the United
States than in the entire century pre-
ceding that period.
The Suez canal rates win be lowered
on Jan. 1. 1912. For freighted ships
they will be $3.50 and for ships in bal
last 50 cents per ton.
The population of Switzerland is
100000. Per capita there were one
and one-half kilograms and fifteen
telephone talks last year.
The largest Photographic negative
ever taken of q sitter was GA by SO
inches, or practically life size. 1t was
the work of Dublin firm.
The Union of South Africa, which in
cludes the Transvaal, Cape Colony,
population of 100000 people.
The stage lights of the Metropolitan
Opera House in New York number
over 1900; there are 700 white lights
and 46S each of blue, red and amber
The Scotch have paid little attention
to poultry raising except for eggs.
Dressed fowls are largely imported
from Ireland, Russia. Germany and
other countries.
In Switzerland there are 10000 peO-
pie engaged in making articles at
home. and of these 10000 are engaged
in textile work and $4,000 in the
matchmaking industry.
Trinity corporation, New York, the
richest church in the United States.
has fled plans to have another branch
church and rectory at Washington
heights, New York, to cost over $780,
OOO
Swamp lands in this country cover
a sufficient area, if reclaimed, to pro-
vide homes for nearly 100000 fami-
lies. according to NJ. o. Leighton, chief
photographer of the government geo
logical survey.
\ New York man returned from a
trip around the world, going westward
by way of Vancouver and Yokohama
and the transsiberian railway. He
made the circuit in forty-seven days
and says anybody can do it comfort
ably on 500.
A, , 4nooennrto t;a, 70 cfor tho mighty
Amazon. including its tributaries, offers
not less than $4,000 miles suitable for
steamship navigation. ManaOs, a pros
porous community, situated 1000 miles
from the mouth of the river. in one
year cleared more than 5000 ships.
The marble bathtub that was re
moved from the Mubarik Mahal in the
fort after the mutiny and which was to
have been taken to England for pre-
sentation to the late Queen Victoria
has been put back in its original place
by the order of the durbar committee
Before the opening of the world ex
position to be held at Tokyo in com
memoration of the fiftieth anniversary
OF LIE cTOWHiHS VI Tue Luihduo LIN
Japanese authorities have decided tC
install complete system of modern
sanitary sewerage modelled after that
of modern western cities.
With the opening of the American
factories at Niagara Switzerland lost
control of the aluminium market
which the little republic had held fol
several years. Neither Switzerland
nor France possesses such rich mines
of oxide of aluminium or such sources
of electrical energy as the United
States.
The consumption of meat lin Ger
many is officially reckoned according
to the number of slaughterings and the
average weight of the animals KILLED
Taking the estimates of the imperia
board of health. which are rather high
it appears that in 1910 there was al
average consumption of 104 pounds Of
meat per head. against 104.75 pounds
| in 1909.
With a more than usual crop of rice
this year, Japan will raise about five
bushels per capita for her people. The