The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-11-06
ROUND THE GLOBE

VI i-PhOCh iiiiftbitNhAS O''N Pei h'OSS
are country born.
Pie bulk of the Swiss mail is illus
trated post cards.
The adult white male population of
the Transvaal totals l3S,OOO.
There are 1900 miles OF railroad
within the city limits of Chicago.
The controversy regarding Mars be
ing an inhabited planet began in 1877.
This years hay crop in England and
Wales has been seriously damaged by
rain.
Shipping casualties OF all national
tiles last year totaled 10S vessels. with
a tonnage of 114,231.
A toy shop in Washington once FIRE
quented by Lincoln and his son. Tad"
is soon to be torn down.
Oil is declared certain to supersede
coal for fuel on boats within very
few years. Cheaper and cleaner.
Tokyo has a female population of
752, 1000. and of these 191 900 are EN-
ployed outside Of their own families
After many tests under government
supervision in Germany, salt has been
found the best preservatiye for butter.
Women occupy an important position
in the public services of France, no
fewer than 155,02S being SO employed.
According to experiments in Ger
man schools. girls seem to have the
color sense better developed than boys
According to recent official statistics.
the estimated population Of ROumania
at the end Of the year 1911 was 1855.
1915
United States annually expends So
OOO,OOO.0OO for liquors, S1,200.OO0 900
for tobaccos and $500, 100000 for mo
tors.
One years supply OF coal for New
York. loaded into fifty ton cars. would
make a train reaching from that city
to Salt Lake City.
The looSer the snow as it lies on the
ground the greater its power to pro-
teci vegetation beneath it, according
to German scientists.
There were 1850 cremations OF hu
man bodies in Switzerland last year.
an increase OF % per cent over the
number for the year before.
The invention OF a flame derived
from electric energy that will not give
of heat is claimed by French scien
fist who is keeping the details secret.
Collars and cuffs made OF the curds
Of goats milk. dried and compressed.
the invention Of Partisan, are said to
wear nearly as well as ceiluloid arti-
cleS.
A report from Berlin says that fash
ionable women OF that city are carry
ing silver spoons in a case for use II
they partake of ices in confectiOner>
shop.
Married in a ballroom. spooned in the
clouds. landed In a pig sly. is the eS
perience of a Kansas City couple VITO
went up in a balloon for their honey
moon.
Ninety thousand horses perish every
year on Manhattan Island. and no fewer
than $500 Of these succumb TO CLAN
derS communicated by filthy horse
troughs
Caps and masks made of aluminium
tubing, through which either hot or
cold water can be circulated. have beeu
invented by Vienna scientist for U.s.,
AS surgical congresses.
Cheese is coming more and more in
favor for lunches in England In aU
dtion to the homemade product there
was consumed last year imported
cheese that cost S34.746,OOO
The number of meals given 10 schUu.
children in England last year was IL.
which only Gl.3IIJ was received Tro".
parents a. voluntary contributions.
\ method for stopping leak in
vessel with compressed air. at The
same time preventing injury to nrh".
parts of the vessel has been success
fully tested in the United States navy
Besides the SparrowS aud the pigeons
which inhahi. the atmosphere of Lon
don. there l. 70 -reat EeSt Of crows IN
Gruv'S L." f'l-. st survivor of numer
Gus rookrr,c> Wuich used to exist u;
the old buildings of the city.
Wei gold mines. in one of whi.h
- rich vc, is reported to have her"
struck. have been Systematically wor,
,'i for uvct -iYty years Gold WIS IIrS.
d.~cuv cred in Tie principality in iSl-
IN Il lode on the ClOgan mOuntains.
Bacon seems TO he even better ij'-''
in England than beef The imports
bacon last year were 1865 I3S hundred
weight against 3.SG3.3S9 in 1910, wherv
nS the imports of frozen beef WEI,
smaller in 1911 3.4200TD than in 1871
ii.IH;.S7SI
\ passenger on Il German steaniP'
after trying various remedies for $pa
sickness. ate pancake with German
cranberreS and found himself prompI
~ cured All the steamers Of that lin
now have "Pfannkuchen NIT PrefSS,''
beeren' on their menu
Cyprus, which wishes to unite with
Greece. is only nominaIly Turkish. for
since 1878 the whole of the admins
trdtiVp power has been welded bl
Great BriTain The island was cap