The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-09-04
ROUND The GLOBE


Germany's first daily newspaper was
printed 3SS years ago.
The world moves. One town IN Sa-
maria now has twenty-five soap fac
tories.
Under the new coal mines act N
Great Britain boys under fourteen can
not he employed in coal mines.
a SeismoGraph invented by Il Jap
aneSe scientist registers the velocity
Of all earthquakes two hundredfold-
During the past fourteen years the
production OF crude petroleum in In
dia has increased by nearly 200OOO,Oo0
gallons.
China'S new criminal law prescrjhes
the guillOtine for the executions of
criminals. which hereafter viii no
longer be public.
German banks have begun to intro
duce the finger print IS a mark Of
Identification on CHECKS. The method
is already in use in the United States.
According to a recently published re
port of tire factory inspectors in Prus-
have been appointed. eight Of whom
are in Berlin
The following European countries
show decreased birth rates: Great Brit
ain, Denmark. Norway, Germany, Aus
tria-Hungary. France. Italy, Neither
lands and Switzerland
Two insurance companies, one in
Switzerland, the other in Germany.
after experimenting with the iHsur-
ance of air men and air craft, have Civ
en- it up as Improbable.
The prosperity of Egypt lies almost
entirely in Its cotton crop, which &y-
prOXimates a value Of 100000 600
year Last years yield from l,G13,26G
acres was G5O,OOO.OOO pounds.
An American actress who has been
working her way round the world for
a wager states that she found ii harder
to obtain employment in London than
in any other city she visited
The giraffe is gradually disappearing
in some parts of Africa Where il was
no uncommon thing to see herds Of
eighty some years ago II Is now a r&r-
ity to see a herd of more than twenty.
About forty miles of shelving are
taken up by the books in the library
of the British museum in London
There are about 2.ONOGO 81 present.
and the number increases at tile rate
of 10000 Il year.
According to the Telephone Engineer,
glass poles are now being nanufac-
tured for telegraphic and telephone
work The glass is strengthened by in
terlacing and INTERVENING it with
strong wire threads.
Although medical experts believe
that at one time or another most chill
dren take tuberculosis. hygienic coudi-
tons have mended SO much 10 recent
years that it is safe to say tie tide OF
consumption has receded-
The profits in diamond mining can he
imagined from the fact that the Pre-
mier Diamond company of the Trans
wall paid last year go per cent diyi-
dend on its preferred stock and 800 per
cent on its deferred shares.
Some wor, men repairing Nantes ca
thedral We're overtaken by 4 shower
and pulled ont of a lumber room an
old cloth To protect themselves. The
cloth proved to be an Old Persian tap
astry worth several thousand dollars
Nicola Capeni of Pitigiiano. Italy
eft directions in his will that F.H~ Of
wine should be poured over his c-.1u
and two hectoliters distributed 20 those
who attended his funeral He request
ed his friends TO dance round his tomb.
Cotton grows well in Hawaii-toO
well. in fact In consequence "f too
rank growth in one locality two acres
Of sea island cotton required about
5000 props to keep the branches from
tying on the ground and causing the
hollis to rot
Names of London streets are often
PAINTED on the bricks of the houses,
and when the letters wear of painter
renews them-and frequently makes
mistake i'm spelling. A movement is
now under way for uniform street
ramPplateS. ----.-
Vienna. with Il population OF 2,s+'E
900. now has facilities which will pre-
rent n water famine at least TIL 1910,
when the population viii. it is com
puted. be doubled. Much of the water
used comes distance of 100 miles
from the Syrian Alps. --.--.--
Fresh sea fish are said to be the
principal ingredient used in a factory
in Holland for the manufacture Of ar
tificial rubber Genuine rubber is add
ed to the fish. and the resulting sub
| stance Is said to be as flexible ana
elastic as the real article and much
cheaper. ------.-.-s,--,s.--ss--s
British pilots are strongly opposed
to a new bill which allows foreigners
to serve as pilots oD English ships.
They consider this danger in case OF
war. referring 70 the cases of several
Germans who. after learning all about
the English coasts as pilots. subSe-
quently became officers on German
men-of-war.
Every one of the GOO and more anti
tuberculosis associations allied with