The Adair County news., 1912-08-14
ROUND THE GLOBE

! By new system of machine teleg-
| raphy 800 words a minute can be sent.
Subject to government inspection,
/ 10000 New Zealand farmers keep bees.
The population of India is seven
| times greater than that of Great Brit
ain.
! The choicest cOrks come from Algeria,
which has 2.5O0,OO0 acres of cork for
/ eStS.
Last year British shipyardS turned
out more than 100000 tons of new
shipping.
OF The ll2 tourists who lost their
lives last year 10y Alpine ascents elev-
en- were women.
Records kept for twenty-five years
show that the proverbial fogginess OF
London is decreasing.
\ floating drydOck with a lifting ca
pacity of 10000 tons has been built for
the British admiralty.
Experts in China are investigating
! the possibility OF using bamboo pulp
in the manufacture of paper napkins.
There are over $1,000 beggars in
Vienna, and it is stated that their av-
erage income is more than that of most
wOrkingmen.
Accurate photographs of buildings
and land have been taken by United
States army aviators from attitudes as
great as 1000 feet.
The Salvation Army is at work in
fOrty-seven different countries and has
fifty-fve periodicals, printed in TWEEN
ty-One languages.
The value of secondary metals chose
recovered from scrap metal, sweepings,
skimmings, Dresses, etc. last year in
the United States was SO, 5S5, $3.50.
The recent census shows that New
Zealand's population is over 1000, 900.
The 1906 census showed a total of $751;
57S and the 1911 census 1,007,S11.
By the construction of number of
short cuts in Siberia the time from
Berlin TO Picking will within a year or
so be reduced from thirteen and one
half days TO nine days
Trinidad. which was the first West
India island to test wireless telegra-
ply, is now to have a larger plant at
Port Of Spain, which will have max
imum radius of 1000 miles.
Military rowdies are again stopping
inoffensive coolies and others whom
they Suspect of wearing cues in the
streets Of Marking and relieving them
of the Objectionable appendages.
Whales are increasing rapidly, as it
no longer pays TO kill them. Twenty
five year$ago 100000 barrels of whale
oil were produced annually. The guam
tity has now fallen to about 10000 bar
relS.
70 insure the owner Of d private
shaving cup kept in a barber shop that
he is it's only user there has been in
vented a paper cap to cover it, which
cannot be removed without breaking
a seal.
Collectors of etchings and engravings
must occasionally pay high prices for
their treasures. \ Rembrandt print,
Jan Sylvius," signed by the artist and
dated 1916 brought at auction recently
! S1,62j.
/ The Westminster Mems Society For
! Women's Rights of London publishes a
weekly paper called the Eye Opener
j Among other things it deals with the
present inefficient state of the law fol
| the protection Of women.
An elderly London woman, who lived
for many years with no other cOmpan
panion than a dog, died, and it is now
| found that she left her residence to bt
| used as a convalescent home and be
! queathed the sum Of $4,000 for its en-
dowment
No American city, says the Scientific
| American, has a pneumatic tube sys
ten (for postal use) comparable Will
that of Paris or Berlin The average
Partisan tube letter." it asserts, is de
livered in an hour and quarter aftel
it is posted.
Bicyclists III England have lost pa
thence over the dogs that attack them
They are making a blacklist of tn
animals which do this habitually. TIT
owners cf the dogs are notified, and i
the nuisance is not abated these own
prs are legally held to pay damages.
Three German countries. Bavaria
Baden and Wurttemberg. besides Aus
ria and Switzerland. border on LAX
| Constance. They are all expected Il
contribute their share of the $4,000,
100 required for the projected improve
inpnt of the Rhine from Basel to thu
lake. to make passage for the barges
The fancy of the young people o
Austria turns 70 thoughts of matri
mony ut carnival time. and Carniva
Sunday-Fasching SOnntag-is usual
busy day for those who tie the matri
mOnial knot. The records for this yea
show that on Feb IS upward of 10
couples were united in marriage in tn
various churches of Vienna.
Mrs Despard's plan for "hatles
brigade" in England, for the boycott
ting of milliBers till suffrage is grant
ed, has encountered the opposition o
the church. One ecclesiastic is quote
rs saying that whatever her views o.
suffrage woman must certainly hav
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