The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-03-19
ROUND THE WORLD

and ten cent stores.
The custom of early marriages is in
favor in Australia.
The first Alaskan gold discoveries
were made in 1896.
Massachusetts in 1918 grew tobacco
valued at $1,21S.06O
Germany will soon be surrounded by
countries in which women vote.
China now has thirty-four electric
| light plants and plans to add to the
list.
Pennsylvania has thirty-three third
class cities under commission govern
ment.
Sweden is on the verge of nationa
prohibition of alcoholic beverages ard
tobacco.
A congress of university students,
representing forty-six nations, is to be
held in San Francisco in 1915.
Germany produces about 80 per cent
OF the worlds potato crop, Russia 22.2
and the United States SO per cent.
The life insurance of the people OF
the United States is more than double
that of all the other countries of the
world combined
There is today in storage in the
United States 263, 7S6.O7O gallons of
whisky. an increase of nearly 80 per
cent in ten years.
Germany is exporting to New Zea-
land American" lamp chimneys that
are made in Germany. They are sold
as of American make.
Fully 95 per cent of the letter and
valuable mail between Hongkong and
Great Britain and north Europe gen.
orally goes via Siberia.
At present Uncle Sam has on hand a
stock of about 1000 torpedoes, while
each Of the principal foreign govern,
ments has from 5000 to 10000.
A handkerchief formerly belonging to
Richard Wagner, with a dedication to
the composers bride embroidered ON
1t, was sold for $500 at Munich.
American drills are much used in In
dia for well boring. For deep artesian
wells American tools and methods are
considered as representing the latest
ideals.
Because the tonnage over the Famous
Forth bridge in Scotland was 60 per
cent heavier last year than in the year
when it was opened much Of the struc-
ture will be rebuilt.
The population of Belfast is slightly
under 100000. and in the entire prov
ince of Ulster. some parts of which are
unsuited to motorcars, there are only
about 100000 people.
A poison Of unknown nature prob
ably is responsible for the large num-
Der Of fatalities among ducks in the
Salt Lake valley, in Utah, in the opin-
ion of officials of the department of
agriculture.
In some Of the municipalities of Ger
many the sight Of a building operation
Is regarded in the nature Of an eyesores
which is to be deplored, and the strict
est regulations are made to meet such
contingencies.
A new convenience for business Of
fees is an electrically driven machine
which automatically writes the names
Of employees and the amounts due
them on pay envelopes and adds the
entire payroll.
The average pay of every man, wO-
man and child in the United States
who works for wages or salary will
this year be close to $610. In 1900 the
average pay was only $479 and thirty
years before that but 1870.
A mathematical prodigy, nineteen
years old, has been found in Chicago.
He can reckon the number Of seconds
in eighty-seven years in seven seconds.
Without any hesitation at all he can
give the cube root of 1866 or multi
ply 291 by S76
The record sentence was imposed on
man in Fort William, Quebec, when
he was found guilty on 40 counts of
having muskrat skins in his posses
sion. He was permitted to choose be-
tween a fine Of $500 or total OF
twenty-seven years in jail.
The newspaper business is in its in
fancy in Afghanistan. Only one paper
is printed in the country, and when
Consul III. d. Baker wrote to the pub
Usher, in Kabul, in regard to placing
in it advertisements Of American
firms no reply was received.
After ten years Of investigation and
experimentation Thomas Ingham Of
Liverpool has developed a seaweed
product which he terms "algin" and
uses in the manufacture Of noninfiam-
mable cinematograph films and Of
paper which is claimed to be water.
fame and germ proof and odorless.
The French police have arrested an
old thief, known as Father Noel, who
never entered tobacconist's shop
without taking at least twenty cigars.
He stole daily an average Of 300
cigars Of the best quality, and wO-
man who worked with him put them
into boxes and sold them to restaurant
keepers at greatly reduced price.
A one year course in tanning has