The Adair County news., 1914-10-21
ROUND The WORL.]

teaching in India.
Cincinnati has annexed the suburb
Of Rensselaer, Park.
Most of the type used by Chinese
printers is made in Japan.
Cleveland has appointed 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 a church build
ing in which four sects unite in serr-
ices.
Hungary's insane are said to be sad
~ 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 were need
ed In supply the worlds consumption
Of gas last year.
The governments of Italy, Belgium
| r al
twenty-four hour time.
In the past ten years the worlds out
put of new securities has reached
total of over S35.OOO.OOO,OOO
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
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-
tribute to the warfare against the
white plague.
German scientists have made a fuel
with twO-thirls the heating value OF
coal from sud-, 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 a 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 a windmill.
By the construction Of harbor at
the mouth of the Murray river south
ern Australia may be given a port
! rivaiing Sydney in Importance.
Switzerland's 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 a fifteen
cent lodging house in New York the
other night. was discovered to have
$4,000 concealed in his ragged cloth
ing.
Mrs Elizabeth G. Vincent, who re-
Gently died at Cincinnati. bequeathed
$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 Anns
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
measure
To prove that a parachute of his in
ventiOn was an improvement over fOr-
mer types a Frenchman dropped a
thousand feet from an aerOpIane with
one and landed safely.
To hasten the mending of badly
fractured bones an English surgeon
has invented a system of screws to
pass through the pieces of bone and
nuts to press them into position
Two girls in Budapest who had de
cided to fight duel over a young mar
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 undertakings
in Japan yield an annual revenue Of
about S64.00O,000. of which S25.0O0.O0C
comes from posts. telegraphs and tele
phones. $25,OOOOOO profits from tobac-
co. $5,OOO.OOO from salt and S5.OOO.OOO
from forests.
The Japanese vegetable udo is be
coming rapidly acclimatized in this
country. The department of agricul-
ture has issued a 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
were stolen from the laboratory of a
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