The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-02-26
ROUND THE WORLD
Labrador's population is 1900.

year.
Domestic servants are employed in
more than 100000 homes In England
and Wales.
Hongkong, China, is badly in need of
roofing that will stand the rigors of
that climate.
The 1918 crops Of cotton and corn
were the most valuable ever produced
in this country.
Shopgirls in London have country
house where they rest at intervals
from their labors.
Ninety-fiye per cent of the steel pens
manufactured in the United States are
made at Camden, N. j.
About one-twentieth of the blast
furnaces in the United Kingdom are
In the south Wales district.
A new Bohemian butter substitute
is made Of cocoanut oil, egg yolks and
small proportion Of cream.
Horses are scarce in Alaska, as it Is
too great an expense to provide food
for them during the long winter.
The same steam engine has been
pumping water out of coal mine in
England for more than 100 years.
Philadelphia has 9,56S factories, en-
ploying 35S,218 persons and paying
$500, 933, $50 in salaries and wages.
1t Is stated that throughout Sweden
there are 100000 total abstainers or
about 10 per cent Of the population.
Aluminium foil for wrapping pur-
poses is being produced that is only
one-sixth Of one-hundredth of an inch
thick.
All field guns hereafter built for the
United States army will be so mounted
that they can be used against aero
planes
The area of Alaska is nearly Co.,
600 square miles, almost equal to that
of the entire eastern half Of the United
States.
In Japan recently there was COM
pleted a railroad bridge nearly seven
miles long, built Of native materials
at cost Of $375,000.
In Switzerland only small tracts Of
forests are denuded at a time, and the
ground from which timber Is cut Is
Immediately replanted.
A Massachusetts inventors auto
matte FIRE alarm system may be at
tached to the electric lighting circuit
In building to allow the latter to ring
q bell.
The Hungarian government evident
~ considers chess a dangerous occupa-
ton. for it has suppressed the national
federation owing to some informality
In its articles Of incorporation.
1t has been demonstrated that over
grazed stock ranges in the national
forests can be brought back to use
under system Of regulated grazing
faster than If they are left unused.
The government of Brazil has begun
work on extensive systems Of reser
v0irs to enable the residents of Its
northeastern states to get water In
long dry seasons, which frequently &C.
cur.
The last living link that bound Kit
CarsOn's memory to the world has dis
appeared In the death of old Scout
Virgins at Denver recently. He had
been the one surviving member Of
Carson's famous band of trappers and
scouts.
Mimi, measures exactly twenty feet
from the sill of its door to the top Of
the cross on its spire. The church Is
used by Syrians and contains fifteen
pews, quite enough to accommodate
those worshiping there.
More than 1,67SOO0 acres Of with
drawn lands in the western states were
restored to entry and about $4,000
acres were withdrawn during Decem-
Der last. according to statement CIV
en- out by Secretary Franklin K. Lane
Of the interior department.
A watch made entirely of ivory
works, hands and case-is the produc-
ton Of M. Henri Houriet Of Chaux de
Ponds. Switzerland. The material en-
ployed was taken from a billiard ball.
The watch keeps good time, varying
only about a minute month.
A woman riding in trolley car In
Philadelphia found an umbrella and
by the initials on the head traced its
owner and went to return 1t. The lat
ter, however, at first disclaimed it. but
later recognized it as an umbrella
which she had lost Eve years before.
For long time Great Britain was
wonderfully. free from railway acct
dents, and the British papers had much
to say of the careiessness Of American
railway management, but OF late the
table has been turned. and railway &C
cidents are becoming almost as fire.
duent and fatal as they have been In
the United States.
Many members Of the geological sur
yey leave the government service at
the time when they have become most
valuable as public servants. salary be-
ing the incentive to change. OF forty
one who left In the last few years all
are known to have received salaries
outside of the public service amount
Ing to practically two and one-half
times the salaries paid them by the