The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-07-25
ROUND The GLOBE

expenditure upon the navies of the
world last year totaled $725,OOOOOO.
Switzerland is to put the ban on all
artificial wines and elders beginning
next year.
There Is an electric light for every
inhabitant Of the Manhattan section of
New York city.
Postcards, chiefly illustrated ones. to
the number Of 1O9.5OOOOO were sent
through the Swiss postof1ces last year.
London suffers an average loss of 80
per cent Of bright sunshine through
the presence of smoke.
The newest two American battleships
will be the first in the world to group
three fourteen-inch guns In single tur
retS.
In the seventeen provinces of Siam
lhere are 166,293 monks and nuns con-
nected with the temples Of the native
religion
The annual production Of glass eyes
In the town Of Lauscha, twenty-five
miles from Coburg, is estimated at 15O..
600. having a value of $1,000 to &c.
OOO
There are fifteen manufacturers of
ha1rp1ns listed In the London directory,
but in almost every case the actual
factory is located at or near Birming-
ham.
Comprising the northern army and
| fhn ND t.
India are divided into two sections.
The headquarters of the former are at
Rawal Ptndi. Of the latter at Poona.
The decadence of the Welsh language
is evidenced by the statement that
about S5 per cent Of the people of
Wales know some English. while near
ly 80 per cent speak no other language.
White rum. tafia, cheap product. Is
drunk by the poorer classes in Haiti,
Consul John B. Terres of Port au
Prince stating that higher quality
of rum sells at four times the price
and is used by the public in general.
1t is announced from China that all
government officials must henceforth
be addressed as Mr." and that all
titles such as 'excellency'' will be dis
carded. Whether the new rule will
apply to army and navy officers is not
stated
Cardinal Farley has received from
the 962 priests of his diocese a gold
medal five inches in diameter and a
quarter Of an inch thick. This Is the
official historic emblem commemorate
ing his recent elevation to the cardi-
nalate.
On JAM |, 1912, the new telegraphic
money order service between SwitZer-
land and the United States and Can
ada went into effect, making 1t pos
sible to transmit sums of money not
! exceeding 5000 by cable between these
countries.
Tiger hunting by the Ussur Cos
sacks was very successful last winter,
fifteen tigers being killed and twelve
caught alive. ten of which were sent
to Hamburg for sale. Small parties
hunting tigers for sport also met with
| much success.
The Yale club in New York city pro
poses to sell its present home In West
| Forty fourth street and move east
along the same street to the corner OF
Vanderbilt avenue. where 1t will put
up a twenty story building to cost
about a million dollars This will be
the largest club building in the city
Macready, the famous actor, left
full private journal hitherto but slight
| Iy drawn upon His heirs have finally
come to the conclusion that the entire
journal may now be published with
out hurting anybody's feelings. 1t will
contain an endless amount Of gossip
and anecdotes of early Victorian times.
After having been buried for seven
years in the desert the body Of Ger
man trooper named Royce has been
found by a flying patrol in shifting
sand dune near Kolmanskop. German
Southwest Africa. The unfortunate
trooper had been sent to convey the
mails from LuderitZbucht to some re-
mote inland stations. He never ar
rived
A mass meeting was held In New
York city recently to urge the passing
Of an ordinance requiring the placing
on tenement houses, saloons. theaters
and hotels of a plate bearing the name
and address of the owner The object
of this little tin plate" is to make the
owner Of a building take healthy In
terest in the property" especially II 1t
is being used for socially Objectionable
purposes.
The present dalai lama Of Tibet Is
thirty-seven years old and Is learned
in Sanskrit. Tibetan and Pail He IS
said to be very devout in the exercise
of his priestly functions. Rising be-
tween and a. ~, be devotes the
major portion of his time to his pray
ers. On an average he sleeps I'VE
hours out Of the twenty-four. he Is
said to be passionately fond OF AMI
mails, particularly Of dogs
Arrangements are proceeding rapid