The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-07-06

BRIEF DISPATCHES


About 100 species of oysters have
been classified by scientists.
One.fourth Of the worlds lead sup
ply comes from Great Britain.
A water-cooed motorcycle englns
has been invented by an Englishman.
The cost OF maintenance Of the
bikes OF Holland is about 100000 a
year.
The six state capitals OF Australia
have been connected by wireless tele.
graphy
Concealed under the flap of new
cap for men Is a pocket for money or
valuables
An experiment station for the pro
duction of tea has been established in
Argentina
Russia has sold to an American
syndicate $50 platinum gold mines in
the Ural mountains.
American linoleum factories are in.
creasing their output at the expense
Of Scotland's exports
Italy has Joined other European ma
tions in prohibiting the manufacture,
importation or sale Of absinthe.
The worlds present potato crop il
approximately large enough to fiji
two-thirds of the Panama canal
Millinery will be one Of the prac-
teal arts taught at the summer school
of the University Of California
Adjustable pontoons, intended to
make any small boat unsuitable. have
been patented in England by an Aus,
tralian.
The French wine harvest OF 1915
amounted TO 1S.1O0,79O hectoliters,
compared with jG.134,159 hectoliters
IN 1914.
The Japanese servant girl has a fat
fan made Of rough paper TO blow the
charcoal fires with or to use as a
dustpan.
On the fortieth anniversary OF their
marriage. Mr.. and Mrs. J. +. Nye saw
their four children married at Shen,
andoah, la.
A process has been invented in Eng
land for coloring wool various khaki
and orange shades with dilute nitric
acid without the use OF natural or
artificial dyes.
The government of India will extend
its wireless system until every army
post has a station in the charge of a
trained Officer
Despite the war. the number Of au.
tomobiles licensed in Canada showed
. great advance in 1916 over the fig.
ures for the previous year.
The negro population of the United
States is approximately 100000. the
largest part (probably 10,O00.000) be.
Ing in the southern states.
Union college claims the distinc.
ton OF the oldest living graduate
for stephen X. Williams, of the class
OF 1897, living in Newark. n. J.
The largest volcano crater in the
world is in Asosan I'm southern Japan.
II measures fourteen miles ACROSS one
way and more than ten miles the
other
A mosque composed almost entirely
OF reinforced concrete, nearly all the
materials OF American origin. is be-
ing built in the Federated Malay
states
More than 10000 miles of macadam
roads have been ordered built in
Afghanistan since the ruler of that
country became the owner of an auto
mobile.
According to reports from Skagway,
Alaska, shipments are being made
from large deposits of magnesite in
that locality as a result Of the Euro
pean war.
Russia has extended to Sept /, the
date for closing its international com
petition for inventions for Industrial
utilization of alcohol, for which large
money prizes are offered
Italian engineers have reported en-
tirely feasible a proposed tunnel from
Venice TO the island of Lido, which
will be two miles long and in places
twenty-seven feet beneath the sea.
A French company has obtained
possession OF an island in the South
Pacific that is believed to contain TO-
100000 tons of high.grade phosphate
and many more million tons OF inferior
quality.
The two floors at the top OF one os
New Works most modern hotels. are
given up entirely TO the use of the
hotels employees. Here are found
restrooms, a swimming pool and com,
Portable living quarters
An English scientist who has been
the oil bearing deposits
OF New Guinea has found evidences
OF petroleum extending over an area
Of 1890 square miles. and has recon-
immediate development.
The largest turbine in the world Is
shown at the Waterside station OF the |
New York Edison company. Il weighs !
$4,000 pounds The engine makes |
!, 500 revolutions a minute. and is al.
most noiseless when going at full !
speed