The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-09-11
ROUND THE WORLD

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Switzerland now owns the st. Go.
thard tunnel aud railway,
Applications for patents in Great
Britain last year numbered 30,0S0.
Montreal police authorities favor the
proposal to add several poicewomen
to the force.
Australia's public debt now stands at
| $1,330, 100000. The annual interest bill!
reaches $47,435, $50.
The coal handling machinery for the
Panama canal coaling stations will be
Operated by electricity.
The output CT phosphate rock in
Florida in 1912 was 2,579.S6 long tons,
an Increase of S5.293 tons over 1911
production.
Germany uses $4,000 tons of Amer.
lean lubricatng oils annually. is to-
tai consumption of such oils reaches
$4,000 tons.
The elevators of Manhattan carry
100000 passengers every day, yet
they killed only thirty-eight people
in ten years
The city Of Bergen has the largest
merchant fleet in Norway and has YES
sells engaged in time charter in every
| part Of the world.
The shoe product of the United
States exceeds that Of England. Ger
| many, France aud Italy, with few
| more countries thrown in.
Russia has under consideration four
competing projects for the construc-
ton of the White Sea railway from the
| city of Archangel to western Siberia.
During last year 41,G20 books were
published In Japan. while Germany,
the most bookish Of European nations
had only 31,2Sf volumes to her credit.
There are 247 newspapers published
in South Africa. in which $7,500,000 is
invested. They give employment to
1000 Europeans and ESQ colored people
Within the last thirty years the popu-
lation of Jerusalem has increased great
~. 1t included in 1880 only 10000
Jews, whereas in the present popula-
ton Of over $4,000 there are no less
than $4,000 Jews.
The second wedding of the thirteen
year-old daughter OF Haricharan Chalk
abarty, the first Hindu widow who
has ever remarked, took place at Chit.
TAGGING. India. Her first husband died
when she was six years old.
For quickly raising to the surface
of the water disabled submarine an
Englishman has invented buoy to
be released from the boat, carrying
up hose through which air can be
pumped to ill and lift the craft.
The fresh water lakes in the central
part Of Tasmania have been particular
Iy suited to tue American sebago, or
nonseagoing variety Of salmon. A
growth from two ounces to four pounds
in twenty-one months has been noted.
If an English engineers plan TO run
an electric railroad up the side of
Mount Popocatapetl in Mexico, be car
ried out. passengers will experience
change in temperature from 20 de-
gress above zero to 10 below within
two hours.
The Chinese have invented new
character or sign for empire A
square with the sign of king inside
was their old character or sign for
Kingdom" but now empire" is rep
resented by square with the sign of
people inside
Although banana raising is not very
profitable in Cuba because Of cost Of
mule back transportation. planting
goes on briskly. partly because the
farmer needs the banana trees to give
the necessary shade to his young coffee
and cacao trees.
DR.. Henry Nachtel. founder of the
New York night medical service. has
just received from the French min
lister Of war the military medal of the
Franco German war Of 1870, in which
he served as assistant surgeon major
attached to the northern army. IL
There is steady decrease in silk
cocoons in France. The large bounty
paid by the government to foster the
industry has not been sufficient to raise
the average France may send asrom-
! mission to Japan to study the silk
growing conditions there, as the Jap
anese silk crop increases every year.
Russia's department of agriculture
has prepared law prohibiting the
culture Of the poppy in the Trans
/, baikaI, Amur and Maritime Provinces
! The cultivation of the plant is to be
criminal offense, as will be also the
, smoking of opium or the storing or
purchasing ii. and the purchase Of
| utensils for smoking opium.
Letter boxes are used on suburban
street cars ip three American cities
Des M0ines, Ia. burlington. Ia, and
Grand Rapids. Mich. This gives the
suburban residents a chance to send
| mail to the postoffice every hour. II
the car is signaled for the purpose
Of putting mail in the box, the sender
IS required to pay the conductor the
| minimum carfare.
Julio Lecaros Y Navas. now In Lima,
| Peru, on a tour of South America col