The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-12-03
ROUND The WORLD

Worlds stock of money is estimated
at $40, 792, 100000.
Cabs are cheap in Naples, where a
short ride costs only 10 cents.
In the Falkland islands there are
five times as many men as women.
Sweden is said to be the foremost
nation in the knowledge of personal
hygiene.
Furnace refuse from ocean steam
ers is now discharged from an open
ing below the water line.
Cleveland has a city hall complaint
bureau. Over 10000 kicks were reg
istered there in the past twelve months.
The largest motor vessel in the world
is the Siam, recently built at Copen-
hagen, with a displacement of 1920
tons.
The Turkish government is seeking
for ways and means to check the
steadily increasing emigration to North
and South America.
A powerful searchlight on top of the
tallest building in indianapolis is
valuable adjunct to both the police
ana nre departments.
The seventh centenary of Roger
Bacon's birth will probably be cele-
brated in England next year by the
erection of a statue in his honor.
New English eyeglasses are so form
ed that when not in use and folded
they resemble a locket and may be
worn on a chain for an ornament.
A youth named Abdul Latiff was ar
rested at Calcutta for having climbed
up waterpipe 100 feet long in order
to hold converse with his sweetheart.
Russians buy a good many hats that
are made. in Germany or Austria
despite the fact that they bear a print
ed label New York" Chicago or
Boston"
1t was an American missionary who
was responsible for the introduction
into Shantung of many varieties of
California fruits to displace the poor
native products of China.
According to two French bacteriolo-
gists, modern ventilators are danger
Gus to human health, as they distrib-
ute disease germs in places where
otherwise there would be comparative
ly few.
1t costs twenty-five typical American
cities an average of less than a dollar
a year to each pupil to provide free
textbooks, according to W. S. Deffen-
baugh of the United States bureau of
education.
DR.. w. E. Scripture of New York
city says that ambidextrous persons
never dream, while right handed per,
sons dream with the right half of the
brain and use the left brain lobe for
conscious thinking only.
In Maskat, Arabia, sewing machine
agent rented the best stall in the ba.
zaar, placarded the town with tin
signs, trained women as demonstrators
in the harems and made presents of
machines to high personages.
Colonel Cocktails private car, which
he uses in his work of directing con.
struction on the Panama canal, is an
odd affair, having a powerful gas en-
CINE, with a hood like an automobile
and cowcatcher like locomotive.
By an ingenious arrangement of re-
fectors thirty candle power incan.
descent lamp recently mounted on &
lightship off the Virginia coast is
made to give flashes of more thar
100000 candle power in certain direc
lions.
The excavation of the numerous pre-
historic sites in the island Of Malta is
being actively prosecuted under the di-
rection of Professor II. Zemmit. Skel-
etons with pottery lamps, spindle
whorls and a circular bronze mirror
have been unearthed.
In line with scientists recommends
tons that series of stations be estab-
lished in Europe from which balloons
can be regularly liberated for air cur
rent study, Germany has opened more
than fifteen such stations. and Russia
plans to establish fifty.
While, as Il rule, land may be had
cheaply in Central America except on
the canal zone and settlers effects
may be brought in free of duty, the
problem of clearing and putting the
land in cultivation is a serious one and
calls for considerable money.
London's proposed postal tube is tG
be nine feet in diameter and six and
half miles long. 1t is to be fitted for
two tracks, each two feet wide, carry
ing steel trucks operated by motors
The line proposed will be constructed
throughout in the London clay.
Said to be the first stone arch bridge
erected in this country, the "Choate
Bridge, Built by Town and County,
1894" as the inscription states, still
stands, a monument to the builder.
Colonel John Choate, at Ipswich, Mass.
1t is seemingly as strong as ever.
During the coronation of King Ed
ward VII. in 1902, Westminster abbey
was temporarily equipped with electric
lights. Again electric lights were used
at the coronation Of King George v.
Now the temporary installation has
been enlarged and made permanent.
More than $1OO,OOOOOO has been