The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-06-25

There are 300 theoSophlStS In Amer
lea, belonging to 125 branches.
Pneumatic tired jinrikishas are now
feature of life in the far east.
"Cobweb hail." a noted old resort in
Duane street, New York. has been de-
molished.
1t is estimated that there are 200,-
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 a 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 it's books
circulated for home use during 1912.
Coal is hoisted and water pumped
from a Kansas mine by a specially de-
signed windmill with four broad vanes
In New York infant mortality has
been reduced from 1S5 a thousand to
$50, principally by philanthropic eff
forts.
New York will soon place the cottage
in that city once occupied by Edgar
Allan Poe in Il park named for the
poet.
Over 10000 New York school chill
dren are annually referred by school
authorities to physicians for medical
treatment.
At the close of last year about 10 per
cent of the roads of the United States
could be clasSed as improved. a 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
JCdlo SlAlCA II mas OCCh AoouCu
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 large farm.
Germany has prohibited the passage
through its customs houses of firearms
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 $780,
100000
Lala Karin Dut, a 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
a model garden city.
Probably the most practical result OF
the i'll fated Scott expedition to the
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-American
countries where thrift is common and
peace and order prevail The savings
per cent in four years and 40 per cent
from 1911 to 1912
Jennie" Scotch collie, so faithful
~ guarded a little tive-year-oid girl in
Chicago the other day 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 dairy
herd believes he is the only man in the
United States who cultivates the prick
ly pear. raising Il 600 acre field Of it
annually and feeding his stock the pads
after removing the thorns.
Strange uses are being found for
some of the cues lately cut off in
vast numbers by the Chinese. A Brit
ish wooden manufacturer recently re
ceiyeG an offer of FIVE tons of such hair
for weaving into wooden fabrics
Little Rock, Ark, spent $4,000 on
Fairgrounds last year. The money was
raised by public subscription through
the efforts of a highly organized play
ground association. The enthusiasm
for Fairgrounds has since spread to
other cities in the same region.
Two teachers in the schools of Ber-
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 who
have taught twenty-five years. The
Berlin Teachers society will tender a
banquet to these veterans in Deem
ber
Wales has adopted the American
plan of sending agricultural mission
airy trains throughout the principality,
teaching the farmers the best methods
of raising poultry. Great gain has re-