The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
TIMELY TOPICS.

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A Baptist church to seat 1900 people
Is being built in st. Petersburg.
At least twenty six deaths were d.
rectly due to football in this country
last year.
Germany's efforts to levy tells on the
navigation of the Rhine is giving the
Hollanders some concern.
Throughout the whole OF last year
1928 emigrants left Ireland. which Is
below the average number.
Forman's History of the United
States for schools is about to be en-
bossed In type for the blind.
In New York during the first three
months of the present year 434 per-
sons were arrested for splitting in pub
lie places.
Hamburg's waterworks are under
the control of the city government. and
as rule private houses are supplied
with meters
Two women prominent In st. Louis
have started a movement to induce
100000 Of their sex in the south to
pray every day for the rich.
For indoor shooting Michigan rife
man has invented target which
catches the bullets without injury. per-
hitting them to be used again.
Practice targets have been adopted
for the British navy built up of many
plates of steel. any of which can be
cheaply replaced when damaged.
In match between two Edinburgh
golfers bali driven from the four
teenth tee was slightly pulled When
the player reached it he found it held
firmly in rabbit trap.
During the decade closed with 1910
the number Of Greeks who emigrated
to the United States was 10000. The
Greeks now here remit to the old coun-
try about $5.OOO,O0O year.
The manufacture Of paper from
pulped blue gum timber Is projected.
Tests made with it are said to have
given product equal to that made
from African esparto grass.
Socrates is the name of one of the
cats on the government payroll in the
postoffice department. An Office cat
wise enough to hold Office is worthy of
such name. says the Washington
Times.
When the president Of the French
republic sat down to luncheon on q re-
cent occasion 1t was discovered that
there were thirteen at table. and re-
porter was brought in to increase the
number.
Saloniki is the most progressive city
of Turkey. as is shown by the enter
prise of its inhabitants and the indus
trial schemes under way and proposed.
In the papers American advertisements
are beginning to appear.
The consumption of boxes in the Va
lencia district for the export Of or
anges. onions. raisins. melons. toma
toes and other fruits and vegetables is
enormous. averaging at present about
100000 packages annually.
German surgeons have made the dis
covery that the delicate membrane
answer as we'll as bits of human skin
to start healing over by granulation In
open wounds which will not otherwise
heal.
A conference took place at St Peters
burg recently for the purpose of de
vising means for the prevention of the
spread Of the cholera" No newspaper
men were admitted except one. who
was connected with the Rossija. the
crown organ.
A German professor has ascertained
that in industrial cities windows which
have not been washed for ten days ex-
clude from IS to 48 per cent of the
light. IL not washed for four weeks
they may exclude as much as 80 per
cent Of the light. m
There are now 1856 urban and rural
cooperative credit societies In India,
with membership of 226.95S and a
working capital of $3.442.58O, of which
only $24O.590 is contributed by the
government. These figures represent
the work Of about seven years.
Since annexation by Japan about
100000 Koreans have cut off and sold
their ''topknots,' materially reducing
the price of human hair In the far east
ern markets. To evade the duty the
Koreans can cross the frontier of
China before cutting their topknots.
Medical men in Jamaica have come
to the conclusion that the increasing
death rate OF the peasants is due large
~ to the almost exclusive consumption
Of yams. cocoa. sweet potatoes and cas-
sava. which are less digestible than
imported cereals. which. however, few
of the natives can afford to buy.
One hour by wireless from Glace
Bay. Cape Breton. to Dakar. on the
coast of French Western Africa. Is the
astonishing feature accomplished by
the Glace Bay wireless station. The
message was flashed to the Eiffel tow.
err at Paris and from there relayed to
Dakar station. the whole operation tax
ing only sixty minutes