The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-05-06
FACTS IN FEW LINES

A boys hair grows at half the rate
Of girls.
Bosnia was Incorporated with Tur-
key in 1853
Belgium employs $1,000 men In its
stone and marble quarries.
Banana skins are utilized in soap
making on the west coast Of Africa.
In Austria prizes are offered to farm
ers to encourage them to recover waste
lands and lay them out as pasturage.
Only one president Of the United
States has ever entered the White
House without the electoral vote OF his
own state. That was James K. Polk.
The sedan chairs which were in gen.
eral use in the seventeenth century are
still used in Dresden by nobleWomen,
who are carried to the opera in them.
There arr so few flies in England
that there is regular business in I'M
porting dried ones from South America
for food for poultry and captive birds
and fish
Under the revised law governing the
employment Of women and children in
Italy night work is forbidden for all
females and for males Of less than
fifteen years.
The French navy is experimenting
with fluid. a German invention,
which when sprayed over the coal Of
warships is said to make 1t burn
without smoke
In the Fukien province Of China
there are camphor trees some Of
which are over a thousand years old.
The natives are just beginning to learn
how to make camphor.
A self styled philanthropist, said to
be an American, has proposed to Vic
tor Emmanuel. king Of Italy, that the
crater of Vesnvius be used as Gre
matOrium for the dead of all nations.
The submarine bed Of the French
river Adour has been followed by Pro
lessor Edward Hull f. r. S., fifty
miles out to sea. and that of the KOngO
he has traced lU miles into the ocean.
The dictionary is never allowed
long rest. The new word is 'dac
tyloscOpy" ard means the method en-
ployed at police headquarters Of iden-
tifying criminals by their finger prints.
Near the ST Lawrence river, in Can
ada, there Is d water slide three miles
long for conveying pulp wood to the
railway. 1t is capable of moving
nearly 5000 cubic feet Of wood an
hour
Nearly all Of the Greeks now coming
to this country are settling in New
York city, and not more than II per
cent are going TO other places There
are now in the city about 81 900 Of
them.
A telephone system will be COM
pleted in the near future in the French
African colonies which will permit
Of communication with the most dis
tant posts in the interior Of the dark
continent
Many excellent famine plants have
been recommended for India, but one
Of the most important is the tapioca or
cassava plant, to the planting of which
the government Of Bombay has again
turned its attention.
After other photographers had fail
ed for twenty years an eastern man,
7. 0. Boisen, has perfected an appa-
ratus which has taken some remarka-
BILE submarine photographs Of Santa
Catalina island, California
A California jeweler has made pair
Of scales so delicate that he says they
weigh the soul Of a fly. AS fact,
they do register the difference in
weight between living fly and the
same after it has been killed.
Through the agency of the Associa-
ton For International Cancellation
Secretary Roots address on ''The Sane
ton Of International Law has been
translated into English, German, Span
ish. French. Italian and Portuguese.
Results obtained in tests of the Max
i'm silent f1rearm before the United
States army board are reported to
have been encouraging, the explosion
being only family audible The muf-
fling is obtained at some expense of
velocity.
Liverpool has library of 100000
volumes. The number Of books taken
home during the last year was 1862
900, while 1,41O.444 were used for ref
erence in the library. In other words,
each book was on the average used
ten times.
An artillery lieutenant in Kraguye-
watts, Servia. has been sentenced to
twentyone days Imprisonment for
compelling recruit to undergo the
most cruel indignity in Servian eyes.
This consisted in making him shave
his mustache.
Women of China are said to be keen
ly anxious to have a voice in public
affairs, and movement is afoot among
the daughters Of the orient to establish
themselves on level with their men
folk as far as social and political af-
fairs are concerned.
There are at present on duty in the
main thoroughfares of Paris twenty
one policemen who speak English, nine
who speak German and six who sneak