The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-07-31
ROUND The GLOBE

There are nineteen motor HfebOats
in use on the coasts of Great Britain.
The Goldfish shipped out Of New
foundland each year is valued at So
100000.
y new alloy of beautiful color for use
in jewelry is composed Of gold and alu-
minimum.
Switzerland is preparing to reserve
a part Of the Lower Engadine as a ma
tiOnal park.
OF the population of Hawaii there
are nearly three times more japanese
than HawaiianS.
In one year $4,000 offenders have
been brought before the Juvenile
courts of England.
A parrot, in the possession of three
generations of one family, has died at
Erfurt, Germany. at the age Of 1O7.
Russia's army has a peace establish
ment of over 100000 men. It's ap-
proXimate war strength exceeds 5,OOO.-
900 men.
To lessen the fire risk a German COM
ptAhy 10 AAAtAhALS q SENNlc.ttN u 1tNNA
furniture for ships, painted and grain
ed TO resemble wood.
Siberia is to have in 1913 at Khaba-
rofsk an exposition which will cele-
brate the three hundredth anniversary
Of the Romanov reign in Russia.
For a prize of two live pigeons, a
cigar and a shilling a London mar
ket porter ate dozen buns and drank
three pints of ale in fifteen minutes.
An inquest at Stockport. England.
developed the fact that death had been
caused by blood poisoning originating
in a slight scratch on the nose inficI-
ed by wOman's hatpin.
A church in upper Broadway, New
York city. has made play garden of
its churchyard and invites the mothers
and children Of the neichbOrhoOd to
make themselves happy in it
A Chinese couple were recently mar
ried in public at Shanghai, an unprec-
edented thing, which is regarded as
significant of the change from the old
er order to the new in China.
The Portuguese government has or
dered that aeroplanes be included IN
the customs tariff. subject to the i'm.
port duty Of 40 milrels (milreis equals
81 each when imported complete
Professor John II. Wigmore, dean of
the Northwestern Law school, told his
students that IF you look on money as
the measure of success l would advise
a business career instead OF the law
To insure the owner of a private
shaving cup kept in barber shop that
he is its only user there has been in
vented 4 paper cap to cover II which
canrOt be removed without br, ak.ug
seal
Because frosts DO the most lauage
when the air is calm a Paris scientist
has advanced the theory that orchards
and vineyards can be protected by
electric fans 70 keep the atmosphere
moving.
French naval officers are to be given
the snowy uniform worn prior to 1908
and comprising a cooked hat, gold and
silver embroidered tunics and striped
trousers for receptions and other Off
cial occasions.
During the year ended March 81
10000 persons paid for admission tn
Shakespeare's birthplace at STatfortl-
ou-Avon. OF the 29,0OO who signed
their names in the visitors album
5000 were from the United States
Government reports show that the,
are today more than G.,000OCO She
in the United States. Some one L..
calculated that if this number wer
placed in a column. two abreast, TIE.
would circle the globe ard still thee
would be a few left over
An outdoor pulpit to cost $4,000 mas
been given TO the new Cathedral of St
John the Divine by Miss Olivia T.
Phelps Stokes in memory of her sister,
Caroline An outdoor pulpit is a fea-
ture of several English cathedrals as
well as of Grace church in New York
city.
Cremation is rapidly gaining in favor
in Switzerland. of the $50 persons
who died last year in st. Gall POI were
cremated There are now nine crema-
tories in Switzerland. and the total
number Of crematiOns in 1911 was
1850. an increase of % per cent in
year.
In a hearing in the Dumfries sher-
ifs court to establish presumption of
death in the case of an English emf
grant to Australia the testimony of
relative to the effect that she had seen
him in a vision in circumstances SUI
costing his decease was admitted 4
evidence. 900
There are about $50 100000 women
in India. and at least twO-thirds of
these have the most profound objection
to be treated by male doctors. To meet
the needs of these millions there az
only about 400 fully qualified medied
women in India, about half of whOi
are missionaries.
Graham bread, adopted in 1908 for
the French army, has now been re-
placed by white bread ration. Thu
daily portion Of twenty~slx ounces OF
white bread has been reduced to twelS