The Adair County news., 1913-08-27

some as long ago as 1884, when the
| French were working in the cut.
! One factory in Ohio uses 100000
feet of poplar and oak lumber annual
", producing 30O,G00,OO0 bungs a year.
| The number of cattle in this coun-
| try has decreased in recent years,
while the poultry flock has grown
larger.
| An Ohio judge suggests that brides
to be should submit samples of their
cooking with their applications for a
| license.
| The oldest town in Alaska is Una
laska. 1t was settled in 177S. It's pop
ulation, according to the last census.
was PSI.
Apple growers in the state of Wash
ington are planning to sell their crops
in Colombo. Singapore. Calcutta and
Hongkong.
Louisville (KyJ grocers who keep
their stores properly clean are reward
ed with certificates of merit by the
Housewives league.
A potato shortage in England caused
prices to advance June 1 in Manches-
ter to $50 per ton against $129O a
the same time last year.
A Siamese government savings bank
has been established to encourage
thrift among the people. Interest Of
2 per cent is paid on call deposits and
3 per cent for six months deposits.
A portable searchlight supplied with
gas from a tank carried on a mans
back has been invented to enable
linesmen to see the tops Of poles at
night without having to climb them.
Superintendent William b. Maxwell
of New York city has a record Of more
than a quarter of a century in a pro-
fessional administrative position in
New York If his term in Brooklyn be
included.
There are 1864 establishments in
Brazil engaged in the textile industry,
principally cotton goods. The number
Of operators employed is about 1885,
700 and the value Of the output $780,
100000 annually.
A French scientist who has combin-
ed the motion picture camera and X
ray apparatus into one instrument, by
which the processes of internal organs
may be studied, has given it the name
of biorontgenograph.
Using mercury vapor lamps in her
greenhouse, a Scotchwoman horticuI-
turist not only forces seeds to sprout
and plants to grow in half the usual
time, but also produces greater depth
Of color in the vegetation.
The average output Of coal to each
person employed in the industry in the
United States is a little more than 600
tons, in the United Kingdom 260 tons,
in Germany 24O tons, in France 1Ss
tons and in Belgium 1874 tons.
After an investigation. made under
the direction of the Liverpool Anti
sweating league, the statement is
made that there are $4,000 women at
work in factories, shops. warehouses,
ETC., who make less than $3.15 a week.
Not many years ago Russia was a
strong rival of the United States In
LAC pLOuONI4Oh VI PCIAOlCoLA' ANO" IhO
Russian empire yields only about 6S
per cent as much oil as California
alone and not much more than Okla
homa.
Sault Ste. Marie still maintains its
reputation for being one Of the great
est ports in the world. The shipping
that passed through its canal in the
last twelve months is reported to have
exceeded that of the SueZ canal by
100000 tons.
Famine seriously threatening, con-
tinued drought having prevented the
planting Of crops, the Chinese in Ho-
nan district have taken their gods out
Of their temples and set them in the
sun to bake until they appreciate the
need of rain.
After four years Of litigation To-
kyo court has affirmed the decision of
a lower Japanese court, which in 1908
sentenced every inhabitant of the vii
lage of ShimidZu to from six to four
teen months Imprisonment for cutting
trees in the imperial forests of Yaguchi
According to the Mining Journal,
London, experiments made to bring
aluminium to liquid condition so that
it may be spread when cold over any
dry surface have, according to the Ger
man press, been crowned with success.
The composition is applied like paint
with a brush and looks when spread
like dull silver coating.
FOrfrno foofor0 NJ Moar;1 cor
the manufacture of crackers, choco-
lates and candy, which was recently
opened, covers an area of $4,000 square
feet, $4,000 square feet being occupied
by four great furnaces, each forty
three feet in length. The daily output
Of the factory is 1000 pounds of block
chocolate. 1000 pounds of biscuit and
crackers and 1000 pounds of fancy
chocolates.