The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1913-01-15
ROUND THE GLOBE

Greater New York has Ibid more
men than women.
Portsmouth is the most strongly for
tiled point In England.
Importation Of champagne is on the
decline. and that Of beer Is increasing.
Los Angeles Is driving out ''matri'
monial bureaus" as socially undesira"
BILE.
CoIorado's 1912 fruit crop is valued at
100000. In 1899 IL was worth $685.
67S.
Adventists have purchased Spion Kop
battlefield. South Africa. for a mission
farm.
Washington complains that business
is fast encroaching on residential dis
tricts
Missouri's new capitol building, to be
erected in Jefferson City, will cost
$2,23O,127.
American college bred men are said
to be stunning the ministry because OF
low salaries.
United States railroads this year were
made subject to forty-eight new laws in
the various states.
Gambling is prohibited throughout
Spain, even In the most aristocratic
clubs. b..
Under certain conditions, local au-
thorities in Prussia are permitted to
tax incomes below $3.50 year.
Open air physical culture classes for
the free instruction of women and girls
are held every Sunday in Berlin.
The French government has placed
an increased tax upon signboards In
the hope of decreasing their number.
Japan's new battleship, the cruiser
| Kongo, has a displacement Of 27.5O0
tons. Its length is 7O4 feet. its breadth
| 90 feet.
W. W. Glass Of Columbia. Mo-. has
presented Abraham Lincoln's school
dictionary to the Missouri State Histor-
ical society.
Poor's Manual for 1912 shows that in
the fiscal year 1911 American railroads
earned an average of 5.13 per cent on
capital stock.
During the last twenty years land
in the United Kingdom devoted to
farming has decreased by more than
100000 acres.
| Kilkenny castle Is one Of the Oldest
inha bited houses in the world, many of
the rooms being much as they were
| 300 years ago.
The japanese. besides drinking 21O.-
100000 gallons of sake or rice wine in
one year. have in addition disposed Of
100000 gallons of beer.
The International Aluminium syndi-
cate has fixed the price Of the metal
for next years delivery at $3.50 per
metric ton Of 2.2O4.62 pounds.
Practically all of the jade now mined
comes from Burma. though New Iea-
land is a producer of some note China
takes practically the entire output.
President e. F. Thwing of Western
Reserve university has secured for
Cleveland the meeting next March of
the Religious Education association.
| There'll be 800 delegates.
There are now $50 athletic organiZa
tons in Bohemia. with membership
Of nearly 100000. including 10000 wo-
men. The athletic movement has de-
veloped almost entirely since 1871.
Reports from Germany say that the
stork is disappearing. Naturalists
have been Investigating the cause Of
the stork's disappearance, and peas
ants have been encouraged to build
nests for the birds and supply them
with food.
Large districts In the far east for
merly planted in tapioca are now he
ing planted in rubber trees and as a
consequence no lower prices for tapioca
are looked for, Land for tapioca grow
ing can be used only one-fourth of the
time and must be left idle for the re-
mainder.
A French author. quoted by the Gas
World. points ont that there is room
for Improvement in the manufacture OF
gas mantes. What il wanted is uni
formity rather than durability. Al
present. he says. the difference in light |
Ing power among nantes from the |
same batch may amount to 40 per cent. |
The rhinoceros beetle. which came to |
the island of Apia. Samoa. three years
ago. destroying the cocoanuts, has in |
creased in number despite the efforts |
made for its suppression. 1t is esti-
mated that in the infested district so |
per cent of the cocoanut trees are at |
fected. 20 per cent have been set back |
In bearing and 3 per cent killed.
With the completion Of a seven story |
building Tokyo is able to boast of the
first skyscraper in its history The |
structure. begun in January. 1910. was
but recently completed. II is consid- |
cred fire and earthquake proof. 1t was |
designed for offices and is especially |
noteworthy because 1t is probably the
highest of its kind in the far east.
Dust from the tail OF Haley's comet.
according to French astronomer. is
responsible for the coronas that have
frequently been seen around the moon
In perfectly clear weather ever since