The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-01-19

BRIEF DISPATCHES



The area of Canada's forests is
more than double all of Europo's.
Tha Philippines in the first half of
1916 built 1876 miles of good raods.
Spanish pencil makers have ordered
thirty tons of cedar from the United
States.
Aeronauts aver that the barking of
a dog can be heard at an elevation Of
four niles.
Without any disturbance of bust
ness Cuba has adopted its new nation
al coinage.
Baron Hans Won Berlepsch's bird
paradise" In Thuringia Is one of the
wonders of the world
New Zealand is to have its first
roof garden, over a six-story depart
ment store now building.
A new gas lamp post has a clock
work attachment which turns the
light on and of at appointed hours.
A microscope so delicate that it
will measure one-millionth of an inch
has been invented by British scien-
fist
The crew of the Greek liner Thes-
saloniki has been rescued after ten
days struggle with the continuous
gales.
In Los Angeles every hotel, apart
ment building and private house must
have a tag on 1t bearing the name of
the owner.
The German armed steamer Kingani
surrendered to the British naval ex-
pendition on Lake Tangauyika, Cen
trail Africa.
Engineers have proposed to dam
the Niagara river near its outlet to
produce O,000-horse power in ad-
dition to that now derived from the
falls.
William Wallace Spence, of Balti-
more, who died the other day at the
age of one hundred, is said to have
started life in America with a strong
determination to reach that age.
scientists of well-preserved mummies
has shown that tuberculosis of the
spine and malaria were common dis
eases in Egypt fifteen centuries ago.
Forty states of the Union have
taken some legal action toward safe
guarding the sanitation of the public
school buildings. according to a recent
bulletin issued by the federal bureau
of education.
DR.. W. T. Grenfell, noted for his
work among the Labrador fisherfolk,
has accepted an invitation to take
charge of a division of hospital unit
that has been sent to France by Har
ward university.
New piers begun by the city of
New York during the last two years
will furnish 36,550 feet, or almost
seven miles of wharfage space, and
approximately forty-five and one-half
acres of dock space.
A dynamometer mounted on an Or
binary dray is used by the United
States department Of agriculture to
register the tractive force required
to draw various weights over differ
emit kinds of roadways.
San Franciscos school government
school fraternity system. and has re-
Gently issued indefinite suspensions
to thirty students, members of promi-
nent families in the city.
Resolutions calling for military pre-
pardness to meet national omer-
gency which will arise within the
next twelve of thirteen months" were
passed by the advisory board OF the
American Defence Society.
According to a French scientist,
birthmarks In families not now Of
good social position indicate that they
are Of knightly descent, the mark be-
ing due to the fact that their poss-
essors' ancestors wore armor.
| A ranchman in the Santa Clara val
ley, near San Jose, Cal, who wished
to trim an EUCALYPTUS tree on his place,
shot the branches OF with a rifle.
It Is approximately 120 feet to the
lowest branch of the tree, and 14o 10
he top Of 1t.
| Mrs. Hattie Henson, Danville wo-
man, convicted Of killing Robert
Crouch, a neighbor. in a quarrel said
10 have been over barking the Of days,
collapsed when a verdict was re-
t1rned and she was sentenced to
prison from three to four years.
That prison reform. now agitated
in America, In an old measure. Is
shown by a report from Japan that
the Japanese tried out the idea over
two Centuries ago. Toxic prisons were
established in the seventeenth cen
fury. 1t worked out satisfactorily,
but was abandoned for some reason
not known.
As a result of the war, American
glass manufacturers have discovered
that the supposedly superior clay
they have been importing from Ger
many is really inferior to the domestic