The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-12-31
ROUND THE WORLD

Furniture casters are now made of
compressed leather.
West Virginia makes use of less
than one-Quarter of the coal she pro-
duces.
Dutch engineers have been engaged
to supervise Peruvian harbor improve
ments.
An almanac printed in Newport, R.
/ l., in 1871, sold for 1925 in Boston the
other day.
An Oregon log raft recently towed
to San Francisco represented 100 acres
of timber.
A new electric machine irons sheets
as fast as five girls can feed them to
the rollers.
Some one has figured out that we
spend more for beer than for bread in
this country.
Harry Paxton, aged four, of Lon
don, England, recently voyaged alone
to New York.
st. Louis is to have a model postal
service under direction of experts
from Washington.
A press weighing 1900 tons has
been manufactured in England for
bending armOr plate.
Radium ore has now been found also
in large quantities in the Ferghana
district of Russian Central Asia.
More than third of Australians
residents live in four cities, Sydney,
Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane.
n. B. Donahue the other day dug up
near Dawson, Alaska, the hoof of an
eohippus, the ancestor of the horse.
Cleveland has a city hall complaint
bureau. More than 10000 complaints
were registered there in the last twelve
months.
/ The little country of Greece sup
ports more goats than Uncle Sam by
100000 head, and Italy is but 100000
shy of our number.
! 1t is proposed to award hero medals
/ to those who save victims Of electrical
shock, asphyXiatiOn and similar fatal
| tiles by reSuscitatiOn.
| The last census of Greenland, dated
Oct. l, 1911, shows that that Danish
colony has a total population of 13,459
as against II 1913 in 1901.
A party of forty-fve girls left Van
couver for Montreal recently, but only
five of them reached their destination.
the other forty having got married on
the way. 49,. - $500
Assuming the population of the Unit
ed States to be 1OO,OOO,O00, one man
out of every forty owes his means of
livelihood and usefulness in some de-
gree to Edison.
! India's methods of storing grain are
still very ancient and inadequate. The
first modern grain elevator in all that
great peninsula is yet to be finished in
the Punjab province.
Articles of clothing from wood fiber
are being made in Europe. The mate
rial for suit costs about so cents.
Clothing made of this material, how
ever, cannot be washed.
Books have been confscated in Tur-
key for the most curious reasons.
Sanford and Merton" for instance.
suffered this fate because the pet dog
in the tale was called Turk.
An Illinois inventor has brought out
an asbestos lined wooden cigar that
may be filled with tobacco and smoked
by those who like to be regarded as
smokers of cigars exclusively.
To save the expense of long and
! costly approach the city end of
bridge that will span Havana harbOr
will terminate in a spiral driveway
and footway making four turns.
1t is estimated that there are in use
in the United States about 100000
elaborate electric protective systems
against crime. about 100000 smaller
systems and some 100000 minor de-
vices.
Moving pictures showing attempted
! murders, attacks on religious bodies.
| highway rObberies and, in fact, any
presentation wherein there is vice or
violence in any form cannot be shown
in Quebec.
A Willesden, England, laundry pro-
prietor. finding that he gets the best
work out of his employees when they
! are happy and cOntented, has decided
to give them free tickets to the the
alter once a week.
The stream which has been supply
ing the ancient city Of Damascus with
water for nearly forty centuries has
been harnessed and will provide cleo
tricity to light the city and operate
100 miles of railway.
China has been hit hard by the in
creased cost of living. The price of
rice has jumped so per cent since 1911
due partly to the famine and more to
the destruction of crops during the
| fighting on the Yangtze.
| German cities having a population
of 100000 or more boast Of their fine
taxicab service. Six and seven seat
cars may be hired in Hanover with
driver at the rate Of 80 pfennigs per
kilometer, equal to 1874 cents a mile.
! On this account the need of privately