The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-12-26
The GLOBE {: I!


London milliners are using seaweed
for hat trimming. ~
Paris reports rents rising rapidly
Same case in Madrid s&.5%
The Chinese legation in London has
discarded the ''pigtaiI."
United States mines last year yielded
$2.7OO worth of diamonds. ..%~
In two years 10000 elephants. have
been killed in central Africa.
The Brazilians make beautiful lace
from the fiber Of the banana.
Within Chicago city limits there are
$500 miles of railroad tracks.
There are 722.335 hard and soft
coal miners in the United States.
Constantinople, the capital Of Tur-
key. has population of more than a
million.
Porto Rico's commerce is now $92.
100000 a year, five times as much as
in 1901.
New Orleans is planning to hold
great fair to celebrate the Panama ca.
nal opening.
An international exposition of horti.
culture will be held at st. Petersburg
next spring z.
One effect Of the Chinese revolution
has been a renaissance in art and
amusements.
Buffalo refuses permission for con-
struction of burial vaults outside regu-
lar cemeteries
The price of pearls is shortly to ad
vance % per cent. Poor pearl fisheries
returns this year. .a...
Professor M j. Rosenau of Harvard
says infantie, paralysis is caused by
the bites of stable flies.
German experiments are said to
show that dried potato green's are as
good for stock as is meadow hay.
Divers are trying to recover $1,000,
600 in treasure sunk in 1899 in the
Zuyder Zee on the frigate Lutine
Norway has forty schools for ele-
mentary instruction in agriculture.
horticulture. forestry and dairying.
The salt deposits of the United States
are ample enough to supply the ma
tons demands for many years to come.
Chocolate. desiccated eggs and sugar
make up more than 80 per cent of the
United States army's new emergency
ration
Female school physicians have re
Gently been appointed in four German
cities Munich. Nuremberg. COlmar and
Hochst.
Electrical apparatus which accurate
" determines the range and tone OF
human voices has been invented by
German woman.
James Stewart of Glasgow after
three years In Africa expresses the
belief that many natives speak the Ian
guage of the monkeys.
indianapolis men have pledged $780,
600 toward the proposed $1O.O0O,OW
automobile highway between New
York and San Francisco.
Australia has esta blished a training
school for boys who wish to become
expert farmers, but who lack the
means to obtain proper instruction.
Liverpool is recovering the large tes
Grade it had formerly. but which it lost
to London for time because of insult
ficient dock and warehouse facilities,
1t is estimated that betterment OF
the 2.25OOOO miles of roads in the
United States will cost $22.5O0, 100000
and to keep them in good shape $1.125
100000 yearly will be needed.
According to a Chicago statistician
SO per cent of the children of that city
attend day school. while only 81 pei
cent attend any Sunday school and
only three ifths Of these attend regu
larly.
Deposits in savings banks in this
country reached a total of S4.212.5o3,
500 in 1911. the latest year for which
figures are available, compared witt
$2.65O. 1O4. 486 in 1902. an increase of &C
per cent
Birmingham. England. has a new
style of life saving apparatus for the
fire department Entrapped persons
are rescued in a cage which is raised
and lowered to the windows of the
burning building
The six new torpedo boat destroyers
authorized at the last session of con
gress have been assigned by the navy
department the following names: Erics
son. Gushing. Winslow, Nicholson
O'Brien and McDougal.
The Balkan powers are planning
united states if they win. 1t is theiI
sole safeguard against having the
fruits of their victory taken away
from them. Perhaps self interest will
yet solve the Balkan problem in this
sensible manner.
One of the strangest effects Of the
persistent cold weather in Europe last
summer was that in some parts of
France the swallows departed about
the middle of August. leaving behind
them nests full Of young ones, just
Matched which soon dipd