The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-07-04
ROUND The GLOBE

tories In 1916.
The Philippines import as much iron
and steel as all China does.
The British postoftice controls SOO'-
600 miles of telephone wires.
Greece buys 1000 sporting guns each
year, 5000 of which come from france
Blacksmiths in China make knives
and razors Of old soft iron horseshoes
Sixty-eight out of every hundred pub
locations in the world are printed in
English.
The French port of Havre is having
improvements made which will cost
$2O.OOO,O00.
English nonconformists are ceebrat
ing their two hundred and tiftieth an
niversary this year.
An audience Of 5000 attended re-
cent moonlight performance OF Aida
at the base of the great pyramid.
An alarm clock for deaf persons that
delivers light blows on sleeper with
q paddle is an Englishman's idea.
There is not much demand for ready
made clothing in English cities. where
tailors make suits to order for Sc up
A new directory to the cities OF
Panama and Colon Is about to be pub
lished by Americans in the canal zone
A British company in the Vaip1ng
district of China has planted million
trees in beginning the work OF affOr
estation.
Very few diaries of any kind exist in
or near Constantinople, and with one
exception none is conducted on a sci
entifc plan.
The canning of paprika pepper in
Spain is done by girls and women.
who earn II to q cents a day OF about
eleven hours.
Resembling a huge pneumatic ham
mer is a new compressed air pile drlV
er. which delivers it's blows so rapidly
that q pile cannot spring back between
them.
The possessor of property valued at
$4,000 is counted rich in Japan. and
there is only one man whose estate
of about $4O.OOO.O00 ranks him with
the worlds rich men,
In one respect at least the Philip
pines are well Americanized. At re-
cent baseball game in Manila 10000
Filipinos crowded into the big stadium.
1t beats cockfghting.
Railway employees at Rangoon. In
dia. are to have the advantage OF lower
prices of food and other things result
ing from the esta blishment there Of a
cooperative store for their special ben
eft
In Yokohama. as we'll as throughout
the empire. the moving picture show
is taking the place of the old time
theater. The price OF admission is
sometimes 219 cents, but usually 5
cents.
In some of the municipalities of Ger
many the sight OF a building operation
is regarded in the nature of an eyesore.
which is to be depIored. and the strict
est regulations are made to meet such
contingencies.
An attachment for telephone re-
ceiver by which another person can
hear what is being said over a wire-a
stenographer. for instance. who is to
take both sides of a conversat ion-has
been invented
One of the exhibits at the recent
horticultural show in London was
crop of mustard plants labeled Mus
tard grown on an old doormat on
roof in Victoria street" Experts said
1t was fine crop.
Among the unclaimed articles left in
the cloakrOoms and depots Of the
Southeastern railway. in England. and
recently sold at auction were twenty
bags of -four. rowbOat. a tireproof
safe and a weighing machine.
A minimum time rate Of 3A pence
an hour has been fixed for women EN-
ployees in the tailoring trade in Great
Britain. Apprentices or learners are
to receive wages of from 3 shillings to
IFS Sd. per week of fifty hours
Inquiry among 266.27O men of the
German army developed that 1O.292 OF
them were left handed. The investi-
gators claim that left handed persons
are not the equal of right handed ones
in physical and mental strength.
The old Congress hall in Philadel-
phia. in which George Washington
took the oath of Office as president at
the beginning of his second term in
1893 ia being restored to the appear
ance it presented on that historic oc
casion.
The Jungfrau tunnel. which pierces
In a semivertical direction one of the
highest mountains in Switzerland. has
been carried up to the site of another
station. the Jungfraujoch. 11.400 feet
above the sea. 1t is hoped that the
tunnel will be finished in 1914
The importation into Cuba of ST.
iencers of any description for firearms
ana the use and sale thereof have been
prohibited by the government. 1t was
ordered that any persons in Cuba hav-
Ing IN their possession such silencers
should tCrn thom ovor RI tho oovorn.