The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-01-12
TIMELY BREVlTIES

The care Of the poor costs the inhab-
itants Of Sweden $1.13 head.
Chile has only 800 postofices to
serve 100000 widely scattered peo-
pie.
Americans are beginning to take an
interest in the farming possibilities of
Panama.
It is officially stated that the $4,000
British soldiers in India consume about
half Of the beer imported.
The British mint recently turned out
its first square coins, five cent nickel
bronze pieces, for use in Ceylon-
The British government has survey
ed railroad line into the great Bau-
chi tin fields of northern Nigeria.
A London policeman arrests on an
average no more than nine persons In q
year; a Partisan arrests twenty-eight.
In the Klondike steam, hot air and
hot water plants are displacing the
old fashioned wood stoves, especially
In hotels and the bigger trading places.
Out of India's population of nearly
3OO.0O0,O0O there are nearly 25,OOO,0O0
married under the age of twenty. OF
these more than 100000 are under the
age Of five.
Australians are considering the prof.
ect of holding great international ex-
hibition to illustrate to the world the
natural and industrial resources OF
their country.
In Argentina they have learned to
fatten beef cattle on alfalfa, so that
now it is possible to market an animal
a year sooner than if it had been fed
on native grass.
Europe's annual expenditure on ed
ucation amounts to f83.0O0,000. OF
which sum no less than one-third is
spent in Germany and one-tenth IL
Austria Hungary.
An electric potato peeler for hotels
and restaurants revolves containel
with roughened lining, which grinds
off the skins as the potatoes are driven
against it by centrifugal force.
Animal life existing under pressure
of five and a half tons to the square.
inch has been found in the Tong,
basin. near New Zealand, at depth
Of four and three-quarter miles.
Winnipeg is the distributing center
for the Canadian west. In Winnipeg
are located the big jobbers and the
branch houses of many American firms
IS well as of practically all Canadian
firms.
In London the other day a copy of
the rare first folio edition of Shake
speare's plays, issued in 1923, was
bought by Mr.. Quaritch for $4,000.
Three years ago the same copy sold
for f2.4O0.
A whale fishery was established
some years ago on the west coast Of
ireland. Four steamers are now en-
ployed in this industry, and during
the last two years 124 whales have
been caught
John Unruh Of Philadelphia says he
owns a horse that Is fifty-one years
old. The horse has been in Mr.. I'M
ruh's possession for forty-seven years
and was used last spring in blowing
an acre Of ground.
'sLend no money to others, indorse
for nobody, give what you can afford
to and let it go at that This advice
is from the will of David Kohn Of New
York city and goes with 100000 es.
tate to his heirs.
The Chilean government has appoint
ed commission Of nine to study the
patent laws Of Chile and recommend
changes to bring them down to date
in conformity with the patent laws of
the leading countries.
Among the unconscious humors Of
current Journalism is the mistake
made by Westphalian paper, which
credited DR.. Ernst Won Leyen, the
great Berlin physician who died the
other day, with the invention of the
Ievden jar!
There has been a considerable public
ontcry in London because man has
been sentenced to twenty one days in
prison for stealing two pies. Less
than century ago, however, an indi-
vfdual was hanged in England for
precisely similar offense.
An Italian medical journal states
that. while water will not quench the
fame 81 burning petroleum in limit.
ed space, milk accomplishes the object
by forming an emulsion with the oil,
| disturbing its cohesion and thus at.
tenuating the combustible element.
In view Of the risque style In the
general run Of French plays, to which
the young people cannot be taken,
group Of Belgian women. headed by
Mile. Marguerite Van de Wiele, an
author Of renown, are organizing a
theater for girls in Brussels, to be
called lie Theatre de adolescence.
To keep hailstones for winter study
Professor Weinberg OF Tomsk. Siberia,
tncloses them In little cell with dou~
BILE walls holding ice and copper sui
phate. August hailstones so preserved