The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-04-11
ROUND THE GLOBE


lencia.
In Russia last year 1882 religious
books were published. the editions ag-
gregating 1862, 1899.
Fifty years have elapsed since the
first postoffice savings bank was insti-
tuted in England by Mr.. Gladstone.
The gyroscope applied to camera
for. taking moving pictures does away
with the necessity for using tripod
On an average the Scotch are the
tallest men in Great Britain. the Irish
next, the English third and the Welsh
last
A study Of the statistics of suicide
in 100 American cities discloses a
gradual reduction In the last three
years.
Crystals of sodium nitrate have been
made in Paris SO pure and perfectly
formed that they can be used in OPP
tical instruments.
Having reduced begging to a sci
ence, an organized band Of Jerusalem
mendicants send out 100000 piteous
appeals for help year.
Tests have shown that. the air in the
crowded sleeping quarters of modern
Warships is purer. than in barracks or
average residences ashore.
An electrically operated coin in the
slot machine has been invented in
Switzerland for cleaning the soles and
sides of persons shoes when enter
ing building.
Henry D. Baker, United States con-
sui at Hobart, Tasmania. has sent tc
the Yale university museum a cOllec-
ton of birds and reptiles now nearly
extinct in New Zealand.
In a test in an Indiana factory
pulley made of cast iron hub and
spokes and Illuminated wood rim was
made to withstand a speed exceeding.
FIVE and a half miles a minute, rim
travel.
Mrs. James Speyer, president Of the
New York Women's League For Ami
mails, announces that $4,000 has been
raised within the last few months for
the establishment of an animal hos
pital in that city.
At one point near Lyons the Rhone
at times when the SHOWS. melt in
Switzerland runs through defile that
makes, it the, most powerful Of Euro
pean torrents. This wasted force it is
now proposed to turn into electricity.
Farmers in Holland have been oblig-
ed to surround their fields with close
wire fences as a protection against
hares and rabbits, which. having been
deprived by the drought of their usual
food, have been attacking grain and
other valuable vegetation.
One of Cecil Rhodes pet projects, tel
egraphic communication by contlnu-
GUS direct route between Cape Of Good
Hope and Cairo, has been abandoned
by it's organizers. the Transcontinental
Telegraph company. This was the first
Of the all red route projects.
Owners of English vessels are max
ing war on cockroaches. 1t has been
found that these insects carry numer-
-,
have occurred at sea. where there was
no contact with other cases, but cock
reaches had been found in the rice
which patients had eaten.
Instancing the fact that in the Boer
war eft took 5000 shots to hit a man."
the celebrated rifle shot Ommundsen
says: elm spite Of improvements in the
power. precision and rate Of fire Of
modern weapons the percentage of hits
was UNNECESSARILY greater hundred
years ago than 1t is today"
The number of illiterates in the Brit
ish army at the last period for which
figures are available was per cent;
France, 3.5 per cent; Austria. p per
cent; Italy, 81 per cent, and Russia.
62 per cent Recent statistics show
the number of illiterate recruits in
the French army to be $4,000.
The Russian army is trying the ex-
pertinent Of using dogs instead Of men
as sentries. The wolf dog of the Ural
mountains is found most suitable for
this duty. This animal does not bark
at the presence or an lnCruuer, out
merely growls and incites the other
dogs In the camp to do likewise.
Commodore Perry's flagship, the Nj
agara that has lain at the bottom of
the lake in the Erie pa, harbor for
twenty-five years. will be raised. made
seaworthy and taken on tour Of the
great lakes in 1913 as feature of the
Perry centennial celebration. The
state of Pennsylvania will bear the
expense.
In London the cost of ticket to
moving picture show. is from to
81 cents. The length of film required
for an average performance lasting
from one and half to one and three
quarter hours approximates 1880 feet.
important and popular events are Of
ten shown on the same day as their
occurrence.
Mount Sinai hospital. New York city.
has announced the completion of a
fund Of $4,000 for the relief of its
graduate nurses who after twenty