The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-08-16
TIMELY BREWT|ES

Portugal
Over 10000 Canadians make their
living fishing from boats.
Pneumatic boxing gloves have been
invented by Philadelphia.
Ducks are trapped wholesale in
France by means Of a searchlight.
An international manual has been
prepared recently by the Chinese to IA
cilitate translation.
The most valuable feathers are those
Of the mirasol, a bird Of Argentina.
They are worth about $1,000 a pound.
Russia's standard of living is becom-
ing higher. although not at the ex-
pense of the savings, which are grow
ing constantly.
Fourteen Chicago clergymen have
volunteered to marry without fees the
couples who find no magistrate ON
hand in the county building.
1t costs the liner Olympic $4,000 to
make trip between Southampton and
New York. And on a recent one she
collected $325.O00 in passenger fares.
"a i'oNtoh NOIOn luti Ouutcu TUE
novelty Of answering all her CORE
spOndents with engraved letters She
first writes her letters and then has
them engraved
In Barcelona the moving picture
shows are so popular that on Sundays
thousands of people can be seen out
side Of them waiting for their turn to
secure admission.
An English inventor has brought out
kind Of steel which resists the cor
rosion of smokeless gunpowder. the
chief objection to the use of that form
of powder for firearms.
The Chinese produce brokers have
established produce exchange in
Singapore Such a project has been
contemplated by the European mer-
chants. but has not yet been carried
out
Some of the new uses for alumni
ium are as wall paper" ceiling pam
els. trays. finger plates and cooking
utensils. Rapidly increasing quanti-
ties are used in the mOtorcar industry
and for airships.
milk can fitted with valves allow
ing liquid to be poured out, but not in,
after the can has been officially in
spected and sealed has been intro
duced by the sanitary inspector Of
Saloniki, Turkey.
Hammocks are not much used In
Germany. Most families, even in the
oiy live In, Aofc hn vii
las or cottages of the suburbs seldom
have pOrches or verandas where ham
mocks could be hung. *-s
Out of $50 samples of milk exam
ined in London In three months LOG
were tuberculous. and the task of
tracing this milk necessitated the ex-
animation of 8.715 cows at 100 farms
scattered over the country.
The king of Italy is one of the most
enthusiastic Of royal motorists and the
only one who has qualified by passing
q severe practical examination I'm driv
ing a motorcar. He is a clever me-
chanic and can repair his own car as
well as drive it.
The best dressed men are to be found
in New York says a German paper in
an article on the decadence in male
fashions. in which the writer laments
the fact that men of the present day
are content to be clothed and no longer
trouble about elegance in dress.
Sawdust is briquetted by several
firms in Europe for household fuel.
Sawdust briquettes. while almost as
easily ignited as wood burn much more
slowly. owing to their having been
compressed SO highly in the making.
This is an advantage. as the fire does
not need replenishing so often.
OF all peoples in the Balkans the AL
uncouth. They have no history of
their own and up to fifty years ago
they did not possess even written
language. At present they are using
three different alphabets, the most pop
ular of which is the Latin one.
With sixty-seven daily papers. thirty
two triweekly. twenty-six semiweekly,
sixty eight weekly, four fOrtnightly.
one three weekly one four weekly and
thirty-four monthly publications to a
population of 5J2. l6S males and 49O,-
500 females. New Zealand may Justly
claim to be anything but illiterare.
Next year the English church will
celebrate the one thousand three hun
dredth anniversary of the baptism of
the first English king by st Augustine.
The dean and chapter of Canterbury
still hold land in Essex given by King
Ethelbert of Kent, which has been in
their uninterrupted possession since
597.
Birds. 1t seems, rarely if ever get
accustomed to the sound of electric
bells so as not TO be startled at the
ringing of one. Knowing this, the
head master of an Austrian school has
patented an electric scarecrow. in
which a clock makes the connection at
irregular intervals to electric bells
scattered over his orchard.
To determine whether the phenom-
ena of life could be made to disappear