The Adair County news., 1914-05-20
ROUND The WORLD


unoccupied houses.
Cleveland in 1913 gave nearly 3d.
100000 to charities.
Since 1909 Japan has more than doI-
bled its exports of toys.
Panama sends about 100000 cocoa
nuts year to the United States.
More than 100000 American wo-
men are affiliated with mission work In
foreign fields.
X ray apparatus has been invented
for killing the tiny parasites that ear
small holes in leaf tobacco.
By the addition Of magnesia and an
oxide an extremely elastic glass has
been brought out in France.
The ameer of Afghanistan receives
from the government Of India an an
nual subsidy of about 100000.
Since 1857 there have been sixty dis
asters in the collieries of south Wales.
with a total loss of life of 2.90S.
1t is said that Chinese girls take
more interest in American life and pol
itics than their American sisters.
The population of Manchuria is vari-
ously estimated between 100000 and
19,29OOOO. the latter being the customs
figures.
New York legal aid bureau for fee
of 10 cents furnishes lawyer to assist
Immigrants and poor persons in obtain
ing justice.
Women are to be admitted to the fac
ulty of theology, the synod Of the can
ton of Neufchatel, in Switzerland, has
Just decided.
The new civil code has introduced
important reforms in Switzerland since
1t gives both parents equal rights over
their children.
1t is remarkable to what extent
Sweden exports butter. After iron ore
it is the second article of Importance
in the export trade.
! Chinese in the HongkOng districS
| have recently taken to ice cream
There is a tremendous sale of Amert-
can ice cream freeZers.
The foreign commerce of the United
| States in the calendar year 1913 ap-
proximated S1,75O,OOO,OOO of imports
and S2.JOO.OO0,OOO of exports.
Chicago leads the largest twenty
two cities In the United States in the
percentage Of increase in automobile;
accidents in the last five years.
The postOfice department of IndlR
| maintains a life insurance branch,
which has over $4,000 active policies.
with an aggregate insurance of S1o.-
100000.
The ultra violet ray is being intro
duced by Paris dentists for whitening
discOlored teeth and sterilizing them
in such a way that they are less liable
to decay.
In Argentina it is possible to lease
| not more than 1921 acres Of public
land and to buy directly 6,17S acres %
pasture land, or 1914 acres Of agricui
tural land.
In Guinea there is a tree which
Yields a peculiar kind OF fruit-a huge
fruit resembling in size a cannon bals
when it pops.
In proportion to it's weight California
redwood is the strongest confer so far
tested at the United States forest prod
ucts laboratory This strength IS dde
to its long fiberS.
Frightful conditions among the poor
were revealed by the Dublin strike. II
is said that there are over 12.CO0 one
room tenements which house from
three to twelve people each.
, Three airShip trips across the unev
plored region of the island of New
Guinea are planned by German sciep-
lists to make observations to aid men
who plan to traverse it on foot
1t is said that the Paris Academy o.
Science has offered a prize of $1,000 to-
the person who devises a means for
DEMONSTRATING the heron in order to OBJ
tain aigrets without killing the birds.
The nizam of Haidarabad is reputed
to be the wealthiest individual in
India and one of the wealthiest per
sons in the world, with a personal ia
come said to amount to $2.5OO0O0 "a
year.
After twelve years of experience or
. girl messengers in Europe, Reuters
Telegram company declare boys to be
better, as girls are not at all adaptable
to the work, are slower and more eI-
/ pensive.
Out of nearly S20OO0,O00 spent last
year in the treatment and prevention
of tuberculosis in the United States
69.3 per cent of the money was derived
from public funds, either federak. state.
county or municipal.
? In Stavanger. Norway, even peasants
and fishermen use electric lights. The
engineer of the municipal electric plaat
has organized a class of housewives
for instruction in the use Of electricity
heated cooking apparatus
W. F. Passett. who has done more
than any other man to make the dahlia
one sc New Jerseys most extensive
and profitable crops. has been raising
1 this flower for more than seventy
years. He is now eighty eight,
In a new hotel in Worcester, Mass,
there will be clock set into the 1oOr
3 of the lobby The dial will be Of glass
one inch thick and viii be twenty