The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-09-20
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of 100000 pounds of hair annually.
OF every hundred pounds Of food we
eat fourteen pounds consists of pota-
toes.
The Australian government offers
large prizes for the best postage stamp
designs.
A Japanese army officer has invented
q waterproof knapsack that is made Of
horsehair.
Manufacturers in the United States
exported 1O4,SS3.SSS pounds Of print
ing paper last year.
Mexico, Venezuela and Guatemala
are the only countries where authors
enjoy the privilege of perpetual copy
right.
Artificial lace is a French develop
ment of cellulose and is said to wear
better and to have other advantages
over real lace.
The ink in a fountain pen will not
dry so rapidly when the pen is idle if
the holes in the cap be plugged to
keep out the air.
The rocket type of life saving appa-
ratus has saved the lives of more than
1900 shipwrecked persons on the Brit
fish coasts since 1870.
Potash may be derived from organic
sources, as from wood ashes and sea-
weed. The giant seaweeds of the Cali
fornia coast contain potash salts.
The term "Eurasian" has been Off
acially discarded by the government of
India. which has decided to adopt
"Anglo-Indian' in the coming census.
Nickel mining is active in New Gale
dOnia. European firms are investing
largely in it and other mining. Some
fair gold discoveries have been made
recently
Tests in Dublin have shown that the
wind will carry disease bacteria 200
feet and as high as sixty feet into the
air. even when there is heavy rain
fall.
Louisville, KY. has a new grand
hotel, and it has been named after the
nationally famous and admired editor
Of the Courier-Journal, Henry Waiter
son.
On an average there are nearly ten
thousand people more than sixty-fve
years old dying in New York ever year.
This Is the highest proportion of old
folk ever recorded by any city in the
world.
The Saxon state railways reward
wOrkmen who have been in their serv-
Zee twenty-five years and more with
small sums of money, and at the same
time distinguish them with marks of
honor
There are twenty-eight cocoa and
chocolate factories in Amsterdam, of
which eight do an almost worldwide
business. Dutch commerce with the
Dutch East Indies greatly favors these
industries.
A new liquefed gas invented in Ger
many and sold TO consumers in steel
drums is nOnpoisOnous, gives an in
tensely white light in mantel burners,
and is said TO be thrice as powerful as
the ordinary city gas when used in
engines.
In Hungary Junior Woman Suf-
eraGe league has been formed with
membership of go young men and
women between the ages of sixteen
and twenty-four. These young people
are to act as ushers at the meetings
of the older suffragettes.
>Cantilever bridge construction makes
possible some astonishing things. For
example, the new railroad bridge
across the Pend d'Oreille river, near
Metaline. Wash, was built out from
one side of the stream until the end Of
the span reached the pier on the other
side, a distance of 2S0 feet.
>, Five tunnels now pierce the Alps.
The boring of the Loetschberg tunnel,
which began ip 1907. was finished
few weeks ago, but the tunnel will not
, be ready for railway traffic until 1913.
II is about nine miles long-the third
longest tunnel in Europe-and is
really a supplement to the Simplon
tunnel.
GOld-the sovereign and half sover-
eign-is now being largely used in In
dia instead Of silver. Traders, instead
of going about with bags of rupees
have taken to carrying gold in their
pockets. Last year $90.000.0O0 in golf
was imported into India, compared
with S35,OOo,OOO in 1908 and $4,000
900 in 1909.
e is estimated that the failure Of
his golden voice caused Enrico Caruso
a loss of fully $4,000. He missed
nine and one-half weeks of the Met
ropolitan Opera company, besides a
road tour Of two weeks. He will not
attempt to sing again until November
and meanwhile will enjoy himself in
Florence. painting doing some plaster
work and relaxing generally.
Yankel Heller, now fifty-three years
old, who was one Of the first men In
New York to buy CASTOR clothing and
has accumulated S25O,OO0 In thirty five
years, has sailed for his native town
In Russia, which he left when he was
eighteen years old and will marry the
v=eman whom he loved as girl. They
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