The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-06-05
round THE WORLD


sons were killed in New York.
Commerce of Hawaii in 1912 was
S15,000.000 greater than In 1911.
German manufacturers Of velvet
have combined in a huge syndicate.
Dr. W. {. Woodward is advocating
open air schools for the District Of
Columbia.
Siberia is expected to be an impor-
tant source Of the worlds food at no
distant day. \
| The naval militia is now organized
in twenty-five states aud the District
of Columbia.
Washington will hereafter grade sal
aries of public school teachers accord
ing to their experience
New York's department Of education
last year employed 33G lecturers, who
delivered 5,573 lectures
| Enlargement of the arteries is now
cured by the use Of glass tube in
serted in the affected part.
Nearly $1.O00.OOO is now on deposit in
school savings banks in LAO schools
throughout the United States.
| In the last six months of 1912 there
were constructed in the United States
101 boats Of an aggregate tonnage of
163.5S4.
More than $25O.OOO has been left un-
I al m hu rnlo firnS, in tho nf
persons found dead in New York in the
| last year.
North Carolina sends much dogwood
and persimmon lumber to England,
where it is made into shuttles for the
cotton mills.
The Chinese official newspaper, which
has been published for 1900 years. has
been put out of business by the new ad-
ministratioD.
Men Of northern China. as rule.
continue TO wear their cues. whereas in
southern China nearly every cue has
been discarded.
| Attempts are being made in Mexico
to make it impossible to set railway
bridges On fire by using tireproof mate
rial in building.
Four more national bird reservations
were established by the United States
government last year, making the total
number fifty six.
The government of Uruguay has en-
gagged an agricultural expert from the
United States to organize an agricul-
tural school in the republic.
Paper from which gas nantes can be
made. instead of using the more ex-
pensive fabrics, has been invented by
an Italian scientist
Official figures show Africa led the
world in the production Of gold last
year. with the United States second,
Australasia third and Mexico fourth.
A new method of preserving oil
paintings. recently patented in Ger
many. consists of inclosing the entire
picture in case having Il glass front
and filled with nitrogen.
Cow testing associations in Germany
have been established only since 1906.
but control more than 10000 cows
The associations are intended to in
crease the milk capacity of German
cows
Are shorthand writing and note TAX
ing doomed in courts of justice? An
Australian Judge has just declared. II
believe the day is not distant when the
photograph will be regularly used to
take down evidence"
Last year the cornfields Of the Unit
ed States yielded the greatest crop in
the history Of this country. 1t reached
the enormous amount of 3,1G9, 100000
bushels. valued at $l,759,000,000 The
United States raises three-quarters of
the worlds crop OF corn.
More than 4,5O0.00O gray squirrels
were killed last year in Siberia for
their fur. The tails alone weighed
over twenty-one tons. The animal fig
uring next in the fur trade Of Asiatic
Russia in point of numbers was the
white hare, which contributed $780,
900 skins.
New South Wales has adopted the
California idea OF blowing ut night.
For this purpose two powerful acety-
'ene headlights> are attached to the
traction engine which draws the plows.
and the ground is so well and brilliant
~ lighted that the operator can work
over the field quite as well as by day
light.
| There are now in use in New York
and its immediate vicinity ten automo-
bile hearses as against four less than
a year ago. and there are a number of
livery and undertaking establishments
equipped to furnish complete automo-
bile funerals. including. besides an au-
tomobile hearse, black painted limou-
sine automobiles in place of horse
drawn carriages.
Practically no dressed beef was ex-
| ported from the United States during
the last six months in 1912. Up to a
few years ago American beef was sold
In great quantity in the markets of
| rrocticoflv oyorv natinD of the world