The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-01-12
BRIEF DISPATCHES


Upward of 300 children are beinf
killed each year in the streets Of New
York and about $500 others injured
1t has been determined that the
Russians display greater resistance
to the typhus germ than the Germans
New Orleans will have in 1916 a
gross income of s3,99S, 1853. Assessed
valuation of real and personal prop
erty, $2i3,237,356.
An armored automobile built by q
Massachusetts man has a steel shell
so curved that 1t will defect a rife
bullet from any angle.
The 10000 walters and kitchen at
PENDANTS of the New York hotels and
restaurants are being licensed To
do so they must pass a physical ex-
animation.
According to reports from Shag.
way, Alaska. shipments are being
made from large deposits of magne-
site in that locality as result of the
European war.
Fish that can shock other fish with
electric flashes from their eyes have
been found along the New Jersey
coast, according to a Princeton uni
versity scientist.
Apparatus has been invented for
converting gasoline into Illuminating
gas and storing it for safe use in
places where commercial gas supplies
are not available.
Vines of a variety imported from
the United States are the only ones in
the vineyards of western France
which this year have escaped the
worst mildew in years.
II statistics are to be believed the
birth rate in the United States, In
Great Britain and in most other civi.
Lied lands in being steadily. though
slowly. lowered each year.
The manufacture of cement in Calf
ornia plants, where electrical energy
y used, is estimated to require an
average Of one-horse power to each
barrel of cement produced.
In 1888 eighty-three pounds of alu-
minum we're produced in the United
States; this year the production 10
expected to reach 100, 100000 pounds,
or about half the worlds output.
The trench knife" is a new weap-
on of warfare, with a blade of about
fifteen inches. Is used for fighting In
the trenches where there is no room
to swing a sword or bayonet.
The United States bureau of fish
cries is having motion picture films
made of the work 1t is doing to ad-
vance the fishing industry and will
have them exhibited wherever they
be Of interest.
To encourage boring for oil, the gov
eminent of South Australia has Of
fered large cash bonus to the first
person or corporation producing 100,-
900 gallons of crude 80 per cent petro-
leum from a well.
Turkey were introduced into Eng
land from America, by way of Cadiz,
Spain, in the year 1924. To this day
the bird is called Indian fowl" in all
European countries, including that
which goes by the same name.
The street lighting bills of the city
Of New York for 1915 will be 100000
less than for 1914. A goodly portion
Of the saving is said to have been ef
fected by the use of nitrogen-filled
tungsten lamps in place of the arc
lamps.
Fred NJ Breen, age twenty-five, Is
now judge of the Wexford county
(Michigan) probate court, in which he
as a state charge in 1899.
He also has the distinction OF being
the youngest Judge of probate in the
United States.
A foghorn which has recently been
for the United States
lighthouse service is so large that
man may easily step inside of it. It
10 said to resemble half of submarine
boat, and may be heard for twenty
i've or thirty miles at sea.
The total value of tires used in 1915
N the United States, including solid
tires for trucks, tires for buses and
amounts to S250,000, 900 In
round numbers. To this sum should
Do added about 100000 motorcycle
Tres, worth from IS to $40 each.
Cyprus was an extremely popular
resort for Britishers for year or 80
lfter the announcement in 1878 that
{ had become . British protectorate,
,ut as the coast could not provide
,arbors to compete with those Of
Malta, the vogue Of the island reced-
ID as quickly as It had sprung up.
Forty per cent. of the high explo-
i've makers and shell packers in Ger
many are women. while so per cent
" the makeys Of tents, haversacks
md similar equipment also belong
o the same sex, and in the manufac.
ure of timed meats and preserves
rs per cent. OF those employed are
emales.
As there are at least 100000 TIA
ians resident in the United States,
Iome American manufacturing firms