The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-01-30
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There il one policeman to every 81
| persons in EEsnnd and Wales.
The. CRi.cd States in The last year
has received 2i1.O96 new settlers
United States imports for 1912 will
exceed 81. 800. 0O0,ND in value: exports
S.4G0. cUD.N0.
ST. Louis provides u rest room In its
| city hall for7iatoxicated persons picked
UP by the police.
| over 900 Hat dwellers in New York
: have organized tenants union to
| force loAer rentals.
OWN. 10 the popularity Of automatic
cigarette lighters. 433.00O.G09 fewer
matches were used in France last year.
1t Is said more than 10000 persons
work in fire trap loft factories in
| New York in spite OF stringent fire
| laws.
| There has been I'M almost continuous
growtl, IN ElSsa's output OF the iron
and steel industries during The last five
{ years. -
Bcl.ium has Gn.0o0 lahorcrs. Among
them tire $1,000 women and $1,000 chit
! dren. who work more than eleven
hours IL day.
Great Britain owns sixty-fvc sul-
/ marine naval vessels. France fifty
eight the United States twenty and
| Japan twelve. -w 1884,
| An outdoor sleeping couch patented
| by Il Washington man folds against the
side of IL house like II sleeping car berth
when not in use.
Treating them with certain gases, Il
French scientist has succeeded in keep
ing cggs fresh in ordinary tempera
! lures for ten months.
1t has been computed that 65.965991
gallons of water were made use Of last
year in the washing and sprinkling OF
the streets Of London.
In London more fires occur on Satur
| day than Oh any other day OF the week
and more in August and December
| than in any other months.
Rotterdam and Antwerp are close
rivals for the position OF second largest
| port in Europe AS far as tonnage Is
concerned. Hamburg being the arst.
A monument will be erected In
France to the memory OF Hubert la
| than. who was the first aviator to con
| slider fine idea OF crossing the English
| channel
] A new machine. little larger than a
} standard typewriter. seals. stamps and
counts letters ut the rate of 1000 an
hour. irrespective of their size. shape
| or thickness.
The knowledge of English among the
native population Of Smyrna Is almost
entirely due to the increasing activi-
ties OF the American colleges. where
over GOO pupils are now being educated.
| Dr. Leslie c. Coleman. director Of
| agriculture in MysOre. India. now tour
| ing the world. says that nowhere in
| Canada or the United States has he
found roads as good us they are now in
India.
| Germany. according to the religious
! statistics of tho empire. has an increas-
! ing number Oh persons without any re-
| ligious profession. At least they are so
| registered The number has grown
| from 1900 in 1907 to nearly 100000.
| A duplication of title has occurred
| between IN American and an English
! novel. each of them having been named
THE Upas Tree" and perhaps still
more oddly. both were advertised in
| the same issue Of IN American journal
| The deaths in Irish warehouses; dur
| ing the past year included those of no
| fewer than seventeen centcnarians.
| One Of these persons was stated to be
| 10 years and another les years of age.
while two had reached 101 and three
! l0G years.
Among the communicates ut the
| Catholic church at Einsiedein. Switzer-
] landg on Il recent Sunday were Herr
Benedict Kaelu. his wife and their
twenty-four children. the eldest of
whom is fifty and the youngest ten
| years Of age
| In New York city plans are making
| to celebrate the three hundredth ami
verS;iry of the settlement of Manhattan
| Island by Dutch traders. The settle
| incnt took place in 1913. four years
| after Henry Hudson discovered the
| river that bears his name.
ConStantinople'S principal depart
! mcmt stores are run on the same lines
| rs stores in American cities. They do
a great deal of window dressing and
| interior decorating. Advertisements
are run in French. Turkish and Greek
| newspapers, and there are special bar
| gain days.
Chile Yields to no other country in
| the extent Of her unbroken coast line.
which extends from Peru to Cape
Horn. II distance of about 1000 miles.