The Adair County news., 1914-08-05
ROUND THE WORLD

Over $4,000 persons are training for
teaching i'll India.
Cincinnati has annexed the suburb
of Rensselaer, Park.
Most of the type used by Chinese
printers is made in Japan.
Cleveland has appointed a woman
police officer to patrol parks.
In Tasmania dentists are forbidden
by law from any form of advertising.
Ceylon is endeavoring to produce
enough sugar for home consumption.
Chicago will employ prisoners in
house of correction at broom making,
etc.
Pittsburgh prohibits acceptance or
use of baseball passes by city employ
eeS.
Philadelphia now has church build
ing in which four sects unite in sef6
ices.
Hungary'S insane are said to be sad.
ly neglected in badly conducted asy-
lums.
Atlanta will give women places on
its park. library. health and school
boards.
Baltimore is preparing to hold next
September a "Star Spangled Banner"
centennial
Sixty million tons of coal We're need
ed to supply the worlds consumption
of gas last year
The governments of Italy, Belgium
and Uruguay have officially adopted
twenty-four hour time.
In the past ten years the worlds out
put of new securities has reached a
total of over So, OO0.OOO,O0O.
Nashville, Tenn, is enforcing the
rule requiring pedestrians to cross
streets at crosswalk points only.
The Westminster Mems Society For
Women's Rights of London publishes a
weekly paper called the EyeOpener.
Missouri is now so we'll settled that
less than a thousand acres of govern
ment land remain open to settlement
The moving picture establishments
of Pittsburgh have been asked to con-
white plague.
German scientists have made a fuel
with two-thirds the heating value Of
coal from sudd, the refuse vegetable
matter of the river Nile.
The chief enemies of cyclists in In
dia are the mosquitoes. which not only
bite their limbs and bodies, but actu-
ally bite through the tires
In London church tower there is
clock which strikes the hours and
quarters. but has no dials nor other
visible evidences of the time.
The first electric plant within the
arctic circle will be erected at a mis-
sion at Point Hope. Alaska, the power
being supplied by windmill.
By the construction of a harbOr at
the mouth of the Murray river south
ern Australia may be given a port
rivaling Sydney in Importance.
Switzerlands embroidery trade suf-
fered loss of nearly 100000 last
year because of fashions decree that
soft. clinging materials shall be worn.
Carl Schmidt. found i'll in q fifteen
cent lodging house in New York the
other night, was discovered to have
$4,000 concealed in his ragged cloth
ing
Mrs. Elizabeth c.. Vincent, who re-
Gently died ut Cincinnati. bequeatheji
$40 to her friend Oliver W. Norton
ito be expended for the best cigars he
can buy"
An autograph love letter of King
Henry VIII. to the unfortunate Anne
Boleyn. Henry's second wife, has been
found in the Vatican library. 1t is in
French
Good oak trunk logs are SO much in
demand in the Spessart region. Ger
many, that some fine trunks have sold
for over 1914 per thousand feet board
measure.
To prove that parachute of his in
vention was an Improvement over for,
mer types ii Frenchman dropped a
thousand feet from an aeroplane with
one and landed safely.
To hasten the mending of baGI!
fractured bones an English surgeon
has invented a system Of screws 10
pass through the pieces Of bone and
nuts to press them into position.
Two girls in Budapest who had dc
cided TO fight Il duel over young man
with whom both were in love have
settled the. matter by becoming en-
gagged to the two men who volunteered
to act as their seconds.
State mOnOpolies and undertaking.
in Japan yield an annual revenue of
about $64000.000. of which S2j.O00.0G}
comes from posts, telegraphs and tele
phones. SO. 100000 profits from tobac
co. $j.000.000 from salt and S5.O0O.O0o
from forests.
The Japanese vegetable udo is be
coming rapidly acclimatized in this
country The department of agricul-
ture has issued Il pamphlet of fifteen
pages giving the results of expert
ments in raising udO. together with
methods of cultivation and cooking
Rabbits which had been inOculated
with the virus of rabies. tuberculosis.
typhoid and other fearful diseases