The Adair County news., 1911-03-15
TIMELY BREvIT!ES

Modern needles came into use il
1915.
Indian ink is now made from burned
camphor.
Russia has eighty-six public holidays
in the course of the year.
At Barbados one can get ship for
almost any European port by waiting
for it.
The sultan OF Turkey once gave Gen
eral Horace Porter a gold medal for
patriotism.
Cold, arid and wind swept Patagonia
of sheep in the world.
PostOffices have been established on
japanese steamships running 10 San
Francisco and Seattle.
Zulus in tribal dances and hunting
scenes were a striking feature of
Cape Towns recent celebration.
The Chilean government maintains
fifty-one lighthouses along the coast
and in the strait of Magellan at an
annual cost Of $SS,731 United States
gold.
More than thirty-four carloads of
sunfOwer seed were raised in a sin
gle Illinois county last year and sold
for medical purposes or bird or stock
food
-Four hundred thousand TASKS of tu-
berculin were distributed free last year
by the federal bureau of animal in
dustry for cattlemen to use in tests for
tuberculosis.
The first and only telephone ex-
change in British Honduras was in
stalled at Belize in 1905. the equipment
being ordered and supplied from the
United States.
To the libraries destroyed by fire
must now be added that of the medical
section of the University Of Toulouse.
which contained 10000 volumes, val
ned at 100000.
The president of a steel rolling plant
in northern Japan has offered to pro-
vide house for a missionary and to
equip him for the work. of evangelizing
its 5000 employees.
The size of cattle ranches in Argen-
/ tina is diminishing steadily, thanks to
the law of Inheritance, which provides
for the distribution of property among
children share and share alike
The most costly medicine a few years
ago was metallic gallium, which sold
for $15O,0O0 pound but radium is
now the priceless gem of the mineral
world, selling for more than that price
an ounce.
In England there has been brought
| out an explosive proof electric motor
for powder factories, even the bearings
being so we'll packed that hot gases
! cannot escape if an explosion occurs
within it,
In the foothills of Mount Tacana, a
Guatemalan volcano, there is an almost
inexhaustible supply of sulphur in huge
blocks, which is taken out fYom time
to time by Indians, but has not yet
been exploited.
The commerce of Venice is steadily
| increasing each year, though not in ex-
ports. 1t is large distributing point
for inland freight. The proposed ca
nal, Venice to Milan, is to have a gov
eminent subsidy of $2,OOOOOO.
Sir James Murray, who has been
editor of the Oxford English diction-
airy for thirty-One years, said during
lecture at the London institution that
he had collected 100000 quotations to
illustrate the meanings Of words
In attempting to establish an ostrich
farm in Abyssinia the original idea
was to capture live ostriches and breed
them. This did not prove successful.
as the birds nearly always died after
the pursuit necessary to get them.
The Persian government has applied
to Italy for military instruction, both
Russia and England having declared
that they would allow the employment
of German officers only if an equal
number of Russian and English in
structOrs were engaged.
/ Lisbon has suffered worse calamities
than revolution. Plague has frequent
! ly devastated it, and in 1855 it was
! overwhelmed by the worst earthquake
that ever happened in Europe. In
/ about eight minutes most of the houses
and upward of $4,000 of its inhabitants
/ were swallowed up.
! In Chicago out of every 1000 women
! In the age period from twenty-five to
/ twenty mine at the last count there
were 314 who were unmarried. In
/ Denver there were 331. In Manhattan
| and the Bronx there were 500. In Min
neapolis there were 500. In Philadel-
| phia there were 3S7.
/ Children of American settlers III
western Canada, though being brought
I'D and educated on foreign soil, are
still loyal little Yankees. They object
strenuously to being compelled to sing
'sRule Britannia" and the school au-
| thorities In the Northwest Territories
have decided that their objections are
to be needed. AS one Of them put 1t.
, 1--WE want peace in Canada"
The German Export Revue says that
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