The Adair County news., 1912-11-27
ROUND THE GLOBE


for hat trimming.
Paris reports rents rising rapidly
Same case i'll Madrid.
The Chinese legation in London has
discarded the ''pigtail."
United States mines last year yielded
$2,70O worth of diamonds.
In two years $4,000 elephants have
been killed in central Africa.
The Brazilians make beautiful lace
from the fiber of the banana
Within Chicago city limits there are
1900 miles Of railroad tracks.
There are 722,335 hard and soft
coal miners in the United States.
Constantinople, the capital of Tur
key, has a population OF more than q
million.
Porto Rico's commerce IS now $92.
100000 a year, five times IS much us
in 1901.
New Orleans is planning to hold a
great fair TO celebrate the Panama ca
nal opening.
An international exposition OF horti-
culture viii be held at st. Petersbug-
next spring.
One effect of the Chinese revolution
has been renaissance in art and
amuSements.
Buffalo refuses permission for con
struction of burial vaults outside reSu-
lar cemeteries.
The price Of pearls is shortly to ad-
returns this year.
Professor NJ. j. Rosenau OF Harvard
says infantile paralysis is caused by
the bites of stable flies.
German experiments are said to
show that dried potato greens are as
good for stock as is meadow hay.
Divers are trying TO recover $1,000
900 in treasure sunk in 1899 in the
Zuydcr Zee on the frigate Lutipe.
Norway has forty schools for ele-
mentary instruction in agriculture.
horticulture, forestry and dairying-
The salt deposits of the United States
are ample enough to supply the ma
tons demands for many years to come.
Chocolate. deslccated eggs and sugar
make up more than so per cent of the
United States army's new emergency
ration.
Female school physicians have re-
Gently been appointed in four German
cities-Munich. Nuremberg, Colmar aud
Hochst
Electrical apparatus which accurate
ly determines the range and tone OF
human voices has been invented by
German woman.
James Stewart OF Glasgow after
three years in Africa expresses the
belief that many natives speak the Ian
guage of the monkeys.
Indianapolis men have pledged $500,
600 toward the proposed S10,OoO.Oo0
automobile highway between New
York and San Francisco.
Australia has established 4 training
school for boys who wish TO become
expert farmers, but who lack the
means TO obtain proper instruction.
Liverpool is recovering the large tca
trade it had formerly, but which it lost
to London for time because Of insult
licient dock and warehouse facilities.
1t is estimated that betterment al
the 2.2JO.Ou0 miles OF roads in the
United States viii cost go, 900, OOO.@O,
and TO keep them in good shape S1.125.
100000 yearly viii be needed.
According TO a Chicago sratisticiau
% per cent OF the children of that CITY
attend day school. while only J3 per
cent attend any Sunday school ano
only three-fifths Of these attend re@u
larly.
Deposits in savings banks in this
country reached a total of $4,212, -,
800 in 1911, the latest year for which
figures are available, compared with
81. $3.50, 104 .4SG in 1902. an increase Of ca
per cent.
Birmingham. England. has new
style uf liz. saving apparatus for ia,
fire drpartH-lt Entrapped persons
are rescued Ia Il cage which is raised
and lowered 20 the windows of the
burning building.
The six new torpedo boat destroyer,
authorized ut the last session OF con
greSS have been assigned by the navy
department the following names: Eric~-
son. Gushing. Winslow, Nicholson.
O'Brien and McDOugal
The Balkan powers are planuin- "
united states if they win. 1t is their
sole safeguard against having the
fruits of their victory taken away
from them. Perhaps self interest Will
yet solve the Balkan problem in this
sensible manner
One of the stFangest effects of the
persistent cold weather in Europe laSi
summer was that in some parts 81!
/ France the swallows departed about
the middle of August. leaving behind
them nests full of young ones. JUS
Matched, which soon died.
American fashions seem to have he
come suddenly popular in Servia. With
in the last half year one frequently
sees in Belgrade men-and more par
ticuarly young men-with their halr
cut in American fashion, while their
/ clothes bear unmistakable signs of the
local failor'S effort TO initiate American