The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-04-09
ROUND THE WORLD

never SneeZe.
Vale of Kashmir, India, is eighty
miles long and twenty broad.
Servia has placed an order for 900.-
600 war medals with Swiss firm.
At a recent exhibition in Germany
1000 kinds of sausages were shown.
The average annual wage for Vic
toria, Australia, is almost $500 a year.
Sponge waste is used in many Ger
man industries. especially for stuffing
dolls
In the Atlantic states there are four
motorboats to each thousand Of popu-
lation.
Vienna licenses taxicab service, regu-
lating wages Of drivers and fares OF
patrons.
Women's colleges in the United
States are better equipped than those
for men.
Cuba's best customer for cigars is
Great Britain, which takes 100000
every year.
Great Britain is now consuming
large quantities of cider, the output in
creasing yearly.
The majority of the women of the
Roman aristocracy have decided to
Danish the tango.
The United States ranks third in the
worlds shipbuilding industry, Germany
second and Great Britain first.
With a population only two-thirds as
great as the United States, Germany
has 100000 more labor union men,
bers
An open air pulpit in the tower is
one Of the features Of new Presby-
terrain church at Palmer's Green, Eng.
land.
Sheffield cutlery firms have subscrib-
ed $55, 800 for the purpose of prescott
ing for fraudulent use of the word
Sheffield" abroad.
All the six sons Of John and Mary
Wheatland Of South Croydon, England,
are in the royal navy. Their ages
range from sixteen to thirty-seven
years.
A Russian army captain has been ex-
PEELED from his regiment at Smolensk
because Of the scandal offered to the
army in his humiliating subsection to
his wife"
One of the German transatlantic
liners carries diving suits equipped
with speaking tubes for the use of
members of it's crew In fighting fires
below decks.
The charger used by Napoleon, which
was stuffed and placed in Paris mu-
scum, has just had fourth tail fitted.
All the preceding ones were taken by
visitors as curios.
A young Norwegian recently skated
1900 meters, which Is about fifteen
sixteenths Of a mile, in two minutes
and nineteen and onehalf seconds. a
new worlds record
Five women whose aggregate wealth
amounts to more than $7b 200, 900 were
seen recently In New York depart
ment store at one time, and they were
all buying remnants.
Brazil owes her wealth in coffee to
monk who planted two seeds in a
monastery garden in Rio de Janeiro in
1854, whence the plants spread
throughout the country.
The Chinese are getting interested in
eQuipping their cities with electric
power and lighting plants. Within a
few years some hundreds of communi-
ties are expected to take on electric
plants.
After an extensive experiment In a
clinic in Cologne the physicians an
nounce that the average pulse rate Of
persons free from heart defects Is fifty
nine minute during sleep and seven
ty-four when awake, the subjects In
either case being at rest In bed.
The family Of Mr.. and Mrs. Exor
Matthews Of Grand Rapids, Mich, con.
sists, besides the parents, of twelve
children, all Of whom are either skill
ed musicians or are taking lessons In
| the use Of some instrument. Each
parent Ia able to play two or three In
struments.
"Radium banks have been establish
ed in few European cities. These
banks possess a few milligrams Of ra
dunn. They lend their radium for one
day for $500 for surgical or other use
Radium salts, 1t is said, may be repeat
eddy used without losing any Of theiI
properties.
Pearls are alive in the embryonic
stage, says Professor Surat, Of the
French museum, just returned tt
France from the South Sea islands
He found in the interior Of pearl oys
ter shells faxy layers containing The
larvae Of microscopic taenia, AROUND
which the pearl is built
1t Is said that never before in any
time of peace in the worlds history
were there so many tents pitched II
one place as at the Delhi durbar sew
eral years ago, when the great major
ity Of visitors, including the king-em
peror and queen empress, occupied
tents just outside the city.
Sponges have never been found IL
the seas of Japan, but recently som,
were discovered about the Pescadore!
islands. They have just been exam