The Adair County news., 1913-12-17
ROUND THE WORLD

q feature of life in the far east.
"CObweb hail." noted old resort in
Duane street. New York. has been de-
molished.
1t is estimated that there are 2OO.-
100000 incandescent lamps in use in
the United States.
Altogether 2,25O,OOO British workers
are insured by the state against being
without employment
| The tapping Of rubber trees is now
done by an electrical device, which
| greatly facilitates the operation.
A either which is played by keys in
stead Of the usual pick has been in.
vented by Massachusetts man.
OF the eighty-fve foreigners who are
in Rome this year studying the Mon
tessori schools sixty are Americans.
The New York Public library reports
that practically 100000 Of its books
circulated for home use during 1912.
Coal is hoisted and water pumped
from Kansas mine by specially de-
signed windmill with four broad vanes
In New York infant mortality has
been reduced from 1S5 a thousand to
100, principally by philanthropic eff
forts.
New York will soon place the cottage
in that city once occupied by Edgar
Allan Poe in a park named for the
poet.
Over 10000 New York school chill
dren are annually referred by school
authorities to physicians for medical
| treatment.
cent of the roads of the United States
could be classed as improved. gain of
~ per cent in three years.
A seed drill invented in Austria sows
fertilizer three or four inches below
the grain to strengthen the roots of the
latter in dry soils or seasons.
New Zealand has a new law provid-
Ing for the revoking of any patent not
worked in that country within four
years after it has been issued.
Switzerland is about to establish
the largest national park in Europe. 1t
is in the canton Of Grisons and has an
area of nearly eighty square miles.
Instead of imprisoning the unfortu
mates in buildings, Germany is expert
menting with its insane by keeping
about 1900 of them on a large farm.
Germany has prohibited the passage
through its customs houses of firearms
J that do not bear marks showing they
have been thoroughly tested by their
| makers
Twenty-Five years ago Argentina had
to import it's -four. Today it sells
wheat to the world, the annual harvest
value amounting to more than $500;
100000.
Lala Karin Dut, q Hindu barber,
who died recently in Meerut, had for
the past three years slept every night
with two pet pythons coiled up beside
him in his bed
The town planning development at
Southend, London's new suburb, forty
miles due east, on the English channel,
is converting that part of the coast into
model garden city.
Probably the most practical result 81
the i'll fated Scott expedition to tbs
south pole was the discovery of great
coal field, said to be at least $50 miles
long. Its width has not been ascer
tanned.
Chile is one of the Latin-AmericaI
countries where thrift is common anG
peace and order prevail. The savings
bank deposits have increased about Isl
per cent in four years and 40 per ceut
from 1911 to 1912.
Jennie" a Scotch collie, so faithful
ly guarded little tive-year-old girl IL
Chicago the other dag that the police
for three hours could not approach the
child, which had wandered from home
followed by the dog
The Texas owner of a large daiT!
herd believes he. is the only man in tht
United States who cultivates the prick
Iy pear, raising a 600 acre field of {
annually and feeding his stock the pads
after removing the thorns.
Strange uses are being found fo
some of the cues lately cut off II
vast numbers by the Chinese. A Brit
ish wooden manufacturer recently re
ceive6 IN offer of five tons of such hal
for weaving into wooden fabrics
Little Rock, Ark, spent $4,000 q
Fairgrounds last year. The money wa'
; raised by public subscription through
the efforts Of highly organized play
, ground association. The enthusiasm
for Fairgrounds has since spread Il
, other cities in the same region.
Two teachers in the schools of Der
| lin are this year celebrating their tif
| tieth anniversary Of school teaching
There are forty-two others who have
: taught forty years and forty-seven wh'
/ have taught twenty-five years. TIL,
! Berlin Teachers society will tender
, banquet to these veterans In Decem
Der.
t Wales has adopted the American
t plan of sending agricultural mission
airy trains throughout the principally
r teaching the farmers the best method
+ Of raising poultry. Great gain has re
! suited. Cities visited have been Pwl
| hell Almwch and IanVmnech TIL