The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-25
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will expend S1,410520 next year.
The scabbards worn by Russian Of
ficefs are made of papier mache.
Artificial arms and legs, and even
ears, are being made of aluminium.
British Empire in the Antarctic re-
efon amounts to 1900 square miles.
Both the Chinese and Japanese man.
ufacture alcoholic beverages tlon rice.
Meat is cheap in Lima, Peru. Loin
cuts of the best beef are only II cents
pound.
A woman living near London is ell
gagged in raising Eskimo dogs for arc.
tic expeditions.
American made shoes compete in
parts Of Russia with American" shoes
made in Germany.
TOrtoises are cultivated for their
shells in the Seychelles island, and the
industry is very extensive one.
A new electric process for coating
iron or steel with lead has been
brought out by an English scientist.
A power driven rotary hoof parer, to
take the place Of the horseshoer's
tongs, knife and rasp, has been invent
ed.
Merida, Yucatan, boasts 103 private
automobiles and four garages. The
streets are paved with asphalt and
brick
South of the equator Buenos Ayres,
Rio de Janeiro and Sydney are the
three largest cities, according to popu-
lation.
Newfoundland has eleven separate
cable lines, belonging to four compa-
mics, which connect Europe with North
America. .,
Inclosing one asbestos box within an
other, with an air space between,
Frenchman has invented a freproOf
jewel case.
A new occupation for women has
just been started in Germany, that of
aids in laboratories and other scientific
institutions.
In France 21.24 per cent Of the pop
ulation are employed in agricultural
pursuits. In the United Kingdom the
percentage is SIS.
Bombay gets its water supply from
three artificial lakes that depend upon
the rainfall in the monsoon season for
their replenishment.
OF hops worth S2,970,O00 imported
into Great Britain in the first six
months of 1912 100000 worth came
from the limited States
The Jerusalem municipality is COM
posed Of ten members, only one of
whom, the president, receives a sal
ary-about S64 a month.
Success has attended the experiment
of transplanting rubber trees in Brazil.
accessible points than the existing
ones.
The consular district of Madras Oc-
cupies the southern portion of the In
dian peninsula, extending over 265,000
square miles, and has a total pOpula-
ton, of 65,559,294.
The food consumed by New York
city costs at the railroad and steamer
terminals S35O,OOO,OOO a year, but when
it gets to the consumers kitchens it
costs S50O,O0O,OO0 a year.
A judge of the Wellington New Zea-
laEO court proposes to petition the
legislature to make the custom of
shouting" australian for treating) in
public houses an Offense.
In 1907 the average outlay for food
| M 70
while ten years before 1t was a trifle
less than $500. At the present time
this figure has reached $40.
Children in the public schools of Sta
yanger, Norway, are treated with the
aid of American dental apparatus by a
dentist who received his postgraduate
dental education in the United States.
a steamship company is being form
ed for traffic on the rivers Tigris and
Euphra-CS. The first contract covers
the t:';i..s. ,ortation of building material
fOr the !;1c,.Id railway from BassOrah.
Since bread is the staff of life, and
hre;-d tu tie Americans means wheat
almost exclusively, it is perhaps not
surprising that we consumed approx
mately 567.OOO,OOO bushels of wheat
last year.
Among the many surprising facts
brought to light relative to the fem
mist movement in India the. news that
II per cent of the money lenders of the
country are women is particularly in
| teresting.
A Chinese, Fuz Yu by name, lived
many years in this country and be-
came an enthusiastic aviator. He. has
gone home to Picking, where he CON
ducts a fourishing school, teaching the
natives how to fly.
The total sum raised by the Dickens
centenary fund is S72,5OO, which, after
the deduction Of expenses, has been in
vested for the benefit of the novelist's
five granddaughter. This win yield
to each present annual income of