The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1914-01-21
ROUND The WORLD

iaJlnS aerial navigation.
There are 300 theOsophists in Amer
lea belonging to 125 branches.
Pneumatic tired jinrikishas are nov
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 III
the United States.
Altogether 2,2JO,OOO British workers
without employment
The tapping Of rubber trees is n07x
done by an electrical device, which
greatly facilitates the operation.
A either which is played by keys z.
stead Of the usual pick has been f,
vented by a Massachusetts man.
OF the eighty-fve foreigners who ars
In Rome this year studying the Moz.
tessOi schools sixty are Americans.
The New York Public library report
that practically 100000 Of its books
circulated for home use during 1912.
from a Kansas mine by a specially de-
signed windmill with four broad yaRes
In New York infant mortality ha>
been reduced from 1S5 a thousand t.
100, principally by philanthrOpic e.
forts.
New York will soon place the cottage
In that city once occupied by Edgac
Allan Poe in a park named for tbs
poet.
Over 10000 New York school chit
dren are annually referred by schOO,
authorities to physicians for medicel
treatment.
At the close Of last year about 10 pes
cent of the roads Of the United States
could be classed as improved, gain o.
~ per cent in three years.
A seed drill invented in Austria sowg
|, 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 provic3
ing for the revoEing Of any patent 10.
worked in that country within fouc
years after it has been issued
Switzerland Is about to establish
the largest national park in Europe. L
IS in the canton Of GrisODs and has az
area Of nearly eighty square miles
Instead of imprisoning the unfOrtZ,
mates In buildings, Germany IS expecE-
menting with its insane by keeping
about 1900 of them on a large farm
/ Germany has prohibited the passage
through its customs houses Of fireaTDu
that do not bear marks showing the-
have been thoroughly tested by their
makers
Twenty-Five years ago Argentina haC
to import it's flour. Today it sells
wheat to the world, the annual harvest
value amounting to more than $500.
100000
4 Lala Karin Dut, q Hindu barber
= who died recently in Neerut. had 70;
the past three years slept every nigh.
with two pei pythOns coiled up besie=
him in his bed
The town planning development
Southend. LoIdOu's new suburb, fort
miles due east. on the English channsE
Is converting that part Of the coast intc
a model garden city.
Probably the most practical result o.
the i'll fated Scott expedition 20 tEe
south pole was the discovery Of a greCt
coal field. said 70 be at least $50 miles
long. Its width has not been asce-
tanned.
Chile is one OF the Latin-America1
countries where thrift IS common C1l-
peace and order prevail The saving
bank deposits have increased about 10
per cent in four years and 10 per cen
from 1911 70 1912
Jennie" Scotch collie. so faithful.
" guarded Il Iittle tive-year-oid cir! 81
Chicago the other da~ 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 daiTr
herd believes he is the only man in rhe
United States who cultivates the J-ic,a-
" pear. raising a GOO acre Geld CT e
annually and feeding his stock the pads
after removing the thOrns.
Strange uses are being found for
some Of the cues lately cut of T.
vast numbers by the Chinese. A Brit
ish wooden manufacturer recently re,
ceiveG an offer OF five tons Of such halE
for weaving into wooden fabrics
Little Rock. Ark. spent $4,000 81
a, Fairgrounds last year. The money wa
raised by public subscription throCgE
the efforts Of highly organized play
ground association. The enthusiasts
for Fairgrounds has since spread Z
other cities IN the same region.
Two teachers In the schools OF Der
lin are this year celebrating their If
tieth anniversary Of school teaching
There are fOrty-twO others who have
taught forty years and forty-seven wis.
have taught twenty-five years. This
Berlin Teachers society viii tender g
banquet TO these Veterans In Decen-
Der.
Wales has adopted the American
plan Of sending agricultural mission