The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-05-08
ROUND THE WORLD

Nearly ~ per cent III Tue average III
COMETS spent for food.
France is the greatest wine produc,
ing country of the world.
More than 20.0OO.000 mummies have
been discovered in Egypt ..
In 1912 there We're 1900 girls AMI
20,231 boys born in California.
In 1912 some l.Oti6.-45 persons voy.
aged between Europe and New York.
Cleveland expects to start soon on Its
new city hail. TO be built OH the lake
front
More than S.O0O.9OO calves are
slaughtered each year in the United
States.
England is the best patron of Ameri.
can goods. with Germany second and
Canada third .'
In 1912 l.loyd's Insurance company
paid out $3G.23O, 900 on account Of yes
sells lost ut sch.
In Newark. y. j.. a lot of second.
hand pianos We're auctioned recently
az 4IIo cents eacD.
The restaurant privilege in Grand
Central station, New York. is valued
at $1,000,0OO II year.
Horse racing with running horses,
is still immensely popular insthe rich
est cities of South America.
Mesa Verde park ruins, Colorado. are
to be made accessible to tourists by
roads soon to be constructed.
Russia is becoming constantly more
able to supply many of its own wants.
even in the higher classes of machin-
cry.
Last year there were 275,000,00O
acres OF land plowed in the United
States at an estimated cost Of $4J0.-
100000.
The first tunnel under the Pyrenees,
recently pierced for Franco-Spanish
railroad. has Il total length Of about
five miles.
The Belgium government makes an
annual appropriation Of $4,000 for the
w S,uIuSl at
Eala. in the Kongo.
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.
While the use Of electrical machin-
cry In London factories has more than
doubled in the last ten years. the num-
Der of accidents has not increased.
Daily weather maps of the United
States weather bureau are now printed
in fifty-eight cities. the combined an
nual edition exceeding GC00.GO0 copies
There are pa newspapers published
in South Africa. In which $1.50O.O00
is invested. They give employment to
1000 Europeans and $50 colored peo-
pie.
A German patent has been granted
for process for preserving oil paint
ings that consists Of inclosinS them in
tight. glass front cases which are filed
with nitrogen
Two women in Kansas City. profes.
sional nurses. both nervy and muscu.
lar. caught a sneak thief in their home
and beat him so thoroughly that he
could not give his name to the police
for twenty -four hours.
A majority Of the locomotives on
Mexican railroads burn oil as fuel
The average saving effected in the fuel
bill is about 10 per cent. Only the
United States and Russia now surpass
Mexico in the production Of oil.
The Irish department Of agriculture
has found that 1t costs lS cents TO
grow in Tippcrary pound Of cured
tobacco whose market value was 0
cents. Cigar tobacco that had mar
ket value Of 13 cents cost ID cents to
cultivate
Many Of the early American poets
found themes in Indian legends Some
Of them outgrew these themes-As. for
instance. Whittier. who tried to sup.
press his early effort in this direction.
"Mogs Magone" The collectors. how
ever--Or thcrefore-yalue this poem
highly. and Il copy Of it brought $50 at
u recent library sale
IIenceforth honor graduates from the
University of Buenos Aires will come
to this country to continue their stud
les. Up to this time it has been the
custom of the government OF Argen-
tina to send such students to Europe.
and the change has been made through
the influence Of DR. Romulo s. Naon.
minister to the United States from the
Argentine Republic
Mississippi has built twenty seven
county agricultural high schools in the
past two years nj an average cost Of
$4,000 per school These schools fur
nish board and dOrmitory facilities for
$3.50 per month. and the boys and girls
are paid a certain amount per hour for
the work they do. so that in most cases
the expense to the pupil is reduced to
about So per month
More than million people took adj
vantage Of the educational trains
sent through the rural districts last
year. by the state agricultural colleges
of thirty-one states. according to fig.
ures complied by r. d. jerks of the