The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-12-05
ROUND The GLOBE
Famine is prevalent in Russia.
croa+ Rr;+ain has 616 600 dressmak

acres OI puUl1C pdI hS.
Chicago cement men will hold their
next annual show Jan. IT,
The natives of Ceylon eat about
100000 cocoanuts every day.
Hongkong is exporting motorboats
across the Pacific into Canada.
Brockton. Mass. has 157 lodges and
clubs-one to every $50 people.
The population of Ireland has de-
creased more than 10000 in the last
ten years.
Chicago claims 2,3264OO population
because the new city directory contains
83O,234 names.
Nearly 10000 workmen's cottages
have now been built in Ireland by the
British government.
Some 100000 girls in the United
States are working for an average
wages of Sc week.
A machine has just been invented
that can make rag hearth rugs at the
rate of one a minute.
Germany has more than seventy
cause of labor or socialism.
Nearly 100000 cases Of forty eight
pounds each of salmon were canned
last year in the northwest Pacific.
It is said that the wild duck yields
a serum which gives immunity from
hay fever. asthma and similar trou
bles
J. NJ DAILY of Chicago predicts early
bankruptcy of 80 per cent of American
railroads owing to increasing ex-
penses.
Adult miners in the sulphur mines
of Sicily receive about 60 cents a day,
About 10000 persons are employed in
the industry.
Sixteen thousand Europeans and 665
Maoris have been given old age pen
sions in New Zealand in the last year.
About $4,000 old age pensions have
been granted in all.
How large is the consumption of ma
hogany in the world may be inferred
from the fact that England alone i'm
ported last year 1O4.712 tons of it.
valued at S4.3O7 .4O2.
An Englishman operating butterfly
farm Is said to sell to museums and
collectors upward of $4,000 specimens
yearly. He obtains as high as $50 for
exceptionally fine ones. and his net in
come is said to be fully $500.
In connection with the campaign
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pean continent the committee of the
Industrial Association of Lower Aus
tria has offered a gold medal for the
best method of preparing leadlesS
printing and photographic colors.
Yale athletes do not die young, ac-
cording to results of a study Of college
records for fifty years by DR.. W. e.
Anderson Of the Yale gymnasium. A
comparison of the mortality of the
specialized athletes with the general
graduate shows in favor of the athlete.
French officers experimenting with
dropping bombs from aeroplanes find
that it Is more difficult than may at
first be supposed. 1t is found that
slight wind gust is enough to send the
bomb off the target. Much practice
will be needed. but better work is ex
pected
America leads the world in the max
ing of shoes. Almost everything else
in the way Of wearing apparel depends
more or less on foreign importations.
but America influences the shoe styles
of England. Germany and France, and
American methods are standards for
the world.
Tomato seed oil is the latest foreign
product which the food authorities are
keeping an eye upon to see that it is
not sold as olive oil and that it is not
used in food products. The oil is SINH
lar to cottonseed oil and is highly use
full for making soap and for lubricating
in some cases.
It is said that oil obtained from
grape seeds is used in Italy in the
manufacture of soap and for lubricat-
ing and lighting. italian chemists
have found a way of extracting the Is
or 20 per cent Of oil which the grape
seeds contain. and this waste from
the wineries is now turned to account.
At the present time more than 90,
0OO, 900 horses would have to be replac-
ed before the automobile could be an
absolute monopoly. In 1900 there were
over 13.5OO,OO0 horses in this country
Ten years later the number had in
creased to 21,O4O.OOO A most pleasing
fact is that their quality steadily i'm
proves.
A special tax on bachelors has been
adopted by the town council Of Macy
Perkata. Hungary, in order to raise
money with which to build hospital
for children. The only bachelor on the
council. who found himself in minor
ity of one against the proposal. has ap
pealed to the county authorities to de
clare the rate Illegal.
Germany. with only fraction of the
agricultural area Of the United States.
produces nearly five times the guam
tity of potatoes produced in this coun-
try annually. 1t devotes an acreage to
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