The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-10-19
TIMELY bREvlTIES
Uncle Sam has $1,000 awmllls.

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To practice hypnotism is illegal in
Belgium.
Nova Scotia has one bank to every
1000 inhabitants.
A coordination crowba~ and truck
has been invented for moving heavy
articles
The president of Argentina travels in
a private car equipped with three bed
rooms and baths.
In India the san duration of life is
only twenty-three years. In England
it is forty-one years.
Including uniform. the wardrobe of
the German emperor is said 10 be val
ued at about 100000.
Manhattan Island is increasing in
population at the rate of 1900 persons
to the square mile each year.
To keep diners fingers clean there
has been invented d silver clip to hold
and squeeze a slice of lemon.
AS part of his scheme for reforming
convicts the governor of a Swiss is
on has introduced chocolate and mu-
sic.
If the land in England and Wales
were equally divided there would only
be a little over one acre for each per
son.
The druggists assistants of France
have formed union, and are demand
ing the closing of pharmacies at 9
o'clock
In the new liner Olympic there are
twenty-nine boilers, each measuring
twenty feet long and fifteen feet nine
inches in diameter.
Coal is handled on the Great Lakes
in large bulk. more than 13,500OOO
tons having passed through the 500
canal the past year.
aged fifty, died in Paris the other day
while trying for wager to eat large
beefsteak at one mouthful
Weighing 700 pounds, or nearly a
third of ton. the largest halibut on
record was recently landed by Hull
trawler at Billingsgate market.
In 1904 there were only two motor
cabs in London. By 1909 they had
grown to 1856. and at the end Of
March, this year, the number was
7,165.
Great Britain and Ireland now have
total population of 45.216665. ex
Guiding 149.934 inhabitants of the Isle
of Man. Jersey. Guernsey and other
islands.
Forty-six dollars for cord of wood
seems high price. but that is what
New Workers pay for it when they
buy the usual packages at three for
10 cents.
New York city has had many ma
tional distinctions. but with all of the
representatives that it has had in con
gress in the last 120 years it has never
had speaker of the house.
The mint in New Orleans is now
thing of the past. and the old building
in future will be utilized as IA govern
ment assay office. principally for the
handling OF bullion from Nicaragua
and other Central American countries
The five large islands of Hawaii
have telephone systems. Rates are
about the same as in the United States
proper. The postotfices number nine
ty-three. Postal receipts last year
amounted to $173,249. and expenses
were $2O9,611.
A New York jury has awarded to
model i'll a cloak house $3.4S9 because
owing to her Drepossessing figure. she
was instrumental in selling $132. 900
worth Of goods in one year When the
firm tried to settle with her for a few
hundred dollars she brought suit
The latest type Of scout cruiser OF
the British navy. the Dartmouth is of
$3.50 tons, carries eight six inch guns
and will probably have a speed of
twenty-six to twenty seven knots The
scouts. like every other type of war
ship. are increasing rapidly in size
Though Director Joseph E. Ralph of
the bureau of engraving and printing
handles an average of 42.OOOOOO post
age stamps daily, he has never lost or
misplaced one. Director Ralph turned
out for the last fiscal year approx
mately 11,1O0.O0OOOO postage stamps
A Japanese newspaper man told an
American Traveller that his expense
while at the Imperial university had
been So a month. His food. room and
light cost $12O month. the tuition
was 80 cents. paper and books cost 30
cents, and he had 81 left for spending
money.
James Jennings. a merry go-round
proprietor of Trowbridge. England has
been collecting horseshOeS in his spare
time for the past two, years. and he
now has pile of them about seven
teen feet high and ten feet through
The pile weighs about $50 tons and is
worth about So 600
AT Niagara Falls graphite is now
made artitirially by electric power.
several thousand tons being produced
there last year Anthracite coal that
carries a small amount of finely dis