The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-01-16
ROUND THE WORLD

wages III Belgium ARE lower general
~ than in any other European c0un.
try.
A tablet weighing four ounces com
prises HI entire meal in the United
States army's newest emergency IA.
ton
Every year 100000 pounds of con-
densed milk and 100000 pounds Of
biscuits are sent to China from Eng
land
The British army costs per man more
than twice as much asc the most ex-
pensiye compulsory service army in
Europe.
Within ten years twenty-five square
miles Of land around New York have
been reclaimed by being filled in with
coal ashes gathered in the city.
"Education. detection. control"
should be the watcbwords OF the cam
paign against tuberculosis. according
to the Chicago tuberculosis institute.
Primarily. for the use Of iivalidS is
Il chair invented by "a Tennesseean. so
equipped with mirrors that an occn-
pant can see what is going ON around
him without rising.
The supreme court of Leipzig has de-
cided in the case of a waitress who
was dismissed for flirting with custom
ers that flirting was not criminal and
was necessary for waitress.
The education conference in Picking
has resolved to establish in the next
three. years further universities in
Canton. Wuchang and Marking, in ad-
dition to the existing one ut Ieking.
The largest destroyer In TIE world
was recently put afioat ut Cowes. She
is called the Tome Her displacement
is 1850 tons She has been built for
Chile. and mounts six four-inch guns
With the completion Of the Panama
canal japanese steamships will prob
ably for the first time ply on the At
lantic seaboard. particularly in con-
hection with the extensive raw cotton
freight traffic.
Thirty-five young girls mt Albacete.
Spain. have vowed not to marry any
young men who prior to their twenty
eighth birthday have not given proof
Of their prowess in the bull ring rs
amateur torcadors
A process for making alcohol from
the waste parts of heneIpen plants has
been discovered in Yucatan. and it is
believed that the new industry will
add considerably to the already large
income accruing from that plant.
Out OF approximately $500 students
listed in the college catalogue at Har
ward fifty bear the name Of Smith
The Browns are poor second. with
twenty-four representatives. but are
tied with the members OF the Davis
family.
All our coffee must be purchased
outside OF this country. bnt this does
not defer the American public from
using S1O.OGO.GDO pounds uf II every
year. or nine and one-follrth pounds for
each man. woman and child in the
country.
Nine. Mathilde David. Il Paris shop
keeper. who set herself on lire after
satu.atin. her clothes With petrol. stat
I'd in II letter that she Ind chosen the
most painful death she could think VI
to punish herself for having yexed her
dead husband during his life.
Large districts in the far east for
merry planted in tapioca are now be
ing planted in rubber trees. and rs a
consequence no lower prices for lapi-
ora are booked for Land for tapioca
growing can he used only one-folrth
OF the time and must be left idle for
the remainder
Constnn,inople's principal department
stores are run on the same lines rs
the stores in New York ar Chicago
They do II great dealnf window dress
ing and interior Decorating, Advertise
mentS are run in French. Turkish and
Greek newspapers. and they have spe-
cial bargain days
In Rome. Ga. the percentage OF Ola
men. hale and sturdy, who are making
living without assistance is large
More than fifty men beyond the age Of
seventy some are nearer eighty-,Hrp
caring for themselves. earning suit
cient for their needs Most or them
served four years in the southern army
Two thousand three hundred love
letters. dating from the year 1850 on
warl. arranged in bundles of fifty.
tied with jeweled silver chains and
written by six different girls. were
found preserved in m ivory c;lSket in
the bedroom of IL louely bachelor who
has inst died ut Melbourne ut the age
of ei@hty-two.
The SueZ canal. according to Ship
piBg illustrated. is owned 10y n private
company. the Gle Unverselle dn Ca
nal Maritime de Suez Its president.
secretary, manager and Il majority of
its directors are French, Great Britain.
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