The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-06-26
ROUND THE WORLD

nicipal market houses.
Germany thinks Of taking up serious.
ly the growing OF soy beans.
England has ninety.two centena-
rians. Germany has seventy-six.
More than 3OOO.OOO gross of pencils
are annually made in Philadelphia.
or every 200 persons who live to he
forty years Of age. ~ are married.
Argentipian cattlemen are looking
for cheap and fertile lands in Brazil
There are los Presbyterian churches
In Philadelphia. with 5i.330 members.
Missouris 1913 wheat crop amount.
ell 70 35.39O.S33 bushels, valued at
S2s.jO5.s 46
st. Paul Is the birthplace Of a new
fraternal order. to be known as the
Camels Of the World
Havana now has a newspaper de
voted to the interest " the equal rights
of women on the island.
John T. Baylies. nincty-one. OF Bus
ton. boasts that he has smoked pipe
since he was twenty-one.
The Germany navy has salvage
boat especially designed for the recov-
cry Of sunken submarines.
Capital punishment was abolished In
Italy in 1873. Since then murders
have increased ~ per cent.
More thar 100000 pianos are built
in this country annually. They are
valued at nearly SIoOOO.OOO.
Granuated glass Is being tried as a
preservative for the surface Of wood
in England with much success
A plate sterilizing machine for hotels
and restaurants. automatic in its op.
Grafton. is a Frenchman's invention.
Italy has Joined several other Euro
pean nations in prohibiting the man
ufacture. importation and sale OF alb
smith
A novel traction engine literally
walks instead Of rolls along. being pro-
vided with four legs shod with broad
shoes.
Swedish farm laborers. who are
hired by the year. receive an average
wage of SS5 annually. with board and
room in addition.
The first film play ever shown was
some forty feet in length. "Quo Va.
dis" which required 100 actors, Is
on film 5000 feet long.
In this country there are about 2I7.-
600 acres. sufficient to support $3.50
cattle or 5000 sheep. now worthless
because Of the prairie dogs.
Japan is rapidly developing the cellu-
loid industry as all the raw materials
for its manufacture except nitric acid
are produced in that country.
The Bulgarian government has COM
missioned an Austrian factory to coin
variety of pieces. 30. 10 and ) sto-
links. One hundred stotinks equal 1913
cents.
Turkish tobacco has now become the
staple crop on eighty farms in South
Africa. all OF which have been sue
cessful in the production Of this type
of tobacco.
The English postoffice has 26l0,65O
miles of single wire. made up OF 3d.
sos for telegraph. 2.234.2l5 for tele
phones and 62,030 for private and
leased wires.
The granite statue of King Edward
VII. recently dedicated at Aberdeen.
Is believed to be the first granite stat
ue of a ruler erected since the days of
the Pharaohs.
Philip voss recently paid $50 for an
inch Of land in New York city. The
inch was needed to give him a clear
title to a piece Of property which he
already owned.
The London Herald was the first
English newspaper to employ a war
correspondent This was George BOr-
row, who wrote Of the Carlist lighting
in Spain in 1889.
India has 3l5.0OO.OOO people. less than
half Of whom can read even the~na-'.
tive vernaculars. Nevertheless there
are 65S newspapers and 1902 peri
odicals published there.
The lowest human habitation is said
10 be that of the coal miners in Be-
hernia. some OF whom make their
uNeIIIirS at point over -.OUo leet
below the level of the sea.
The department OF pubic lnstruc-
ton and fine arts of Spain has been
allotted $4,000 for Use toward estab-
fishing and improving workshops Of
the country's industrial schools.
Agricultural labOrers in India are
usually paid in kind. but in the canal
colonies. where labor is scare. as much
as 80 cents day is paid for hired la
bora high rate for that country.
During the past ten years more than
100000 persons are said to have been
killed in India by snake bites. while
tigers. leopards and wolves have ac-
counted for another 1900 deaths.
The average area administered by a
ranger on the federal forests OF the
United States is about 100000 acres.
In Germany the area administered by
u man Of equivalent rank is about 100
acres.
Twelve cities aud towns of Ecua-
dor are considering or have In course
Of completion waterworks improve
ments, six are studying sewerage