The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-05-20
round THE WORLD

now as compared to 2.S25 .023 in 1909.
| Italian authorities have been using
automobile trucks in Tripoli with great
| success.
Berlin. Germany. under normal con-
ditions. employs almost 100000 work
ers In It's industries
The city of Paris has issued map
showing where within its limits the
tango may and may not be danced.
The number Of postage stamps print
ed for the United States government
last year amounted to 0,173.424.OO0.
Radium water to be used as medic.
inal beverage has been introduced in
Holland. according to Vice Consul De
Young.
Under forest regulations In Colombia
rubber gatherers are required to give
the trees rest period in tapping them
for gum.
| A st. Louis inventor of life pre-
server which has metal webs on the
legs claims they enable person to
walk in water.
Boulogne-sur-M er is the leading fish
ing port of France and is one OF the
most important centers for the fishing
industry in the world
Where the garden of Eden once -four,
ishpd. according to some eminent au.
thorities. irrigation is about to be in
PRODUCED from the Euphrates
In New Zealand every man out Of
work has the right to demand employ
ment on work Of public Improvement
at the prevailing rate of wages.
In southern France the tig tree is
now cultivated almost exclusively for
the production Of the fresh fruit. which
always has ready sale in the large
centerS.
There are no producing nickel mines
in the United Suites. The output OF
nickel from domestic ores is merely
byproduct from eiectrolytes of the cop.
per refneries.
The Berlin telephone station has a
scheme by whicl the movements OF
physicians are recorded in case of an
urgent call when their services will
be desired quickly.
A French scientist is experimenting
to prevent fogs by floating small guam
titles of oil on the surface of rivers tn
check evaporation. to which he con
tends fogs are due.
A rancher has applied for rental OF
800 acres of the Pike national forest,
Colorado. to be used in connection
with private land for raising elk as
commercial venture.
Baseball for its male employees. ten
mis- for its women and other recrea-
tons for both are provided by a Chi
cagO department store ON the roof Ut
Its extensive building.
A new English mine rescle appara-
tus does away with the helmet and
weighs only twenty eight pounds. yet
with II man can work in deadly
gases more than five hours.
Flint pebbles gathered ON the coast
Of France and Of which about $4,000
worth are annually exported from
Havre to the United States, are valued
at present at SITS per metric ton.
Lead pencil manufacture in the Unit
ed States Is consuming 73,OOO.OOO feet
of lumber annually. of which about
one-half Is estimated to- be wasted in
sharpening or throwing away short
ends.
Women OF the Portuguese province
of Mozambique in Africa make white
cosmetic by grinding certain kind OF
wrinkles and prevents eruptive blem,
ishes.
In the city planning congress at
Client there was much advocacy OF
streets so laid out as to allow the
greatest possible amount Of sunlight in
order to secure the fullest microbici-
dial action Of the rays.
The United States Steel corporation
has paid $1.O63 O5343 in pensions ia
more than 1000 former employees dur
ing the past three years, according to
the third annual report of the pension
fund. recently published
In these days Of big libraries II
seems odd to spread the news that q
collection of books at Princeton has
been brought up to eight volumes. But
they are all early books on Amerigc
Vespucci, which makes difference.
About 5000 tons of cork sawdust are
used in Spain annually In packing
fruits for shipment. Some 10000 per
sons are employed in some manner In
the cork industry in Spain. with ar
average wage of about g. cents day
Cotton promises to be one Of the
great crops of the Panama canal zone
One grower has hybridized wild cotton
with plants from the United States
He also has an ever bearing variety
which is pruned to produce new
growth
Both Colombia and Peru are competi
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