The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-15
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every rat killed in the town.
There are 43,6O4 farms in this coun-
try of more than thousand acres each.
Pitchblende from Cornwall is so rich
in radium that Sir William Ramsay de-
clares a grain can be produced every
month.
Secretary Meyer says the United
States spends $10,OO0,OOO a month on
its navy. This has been the rate for
the last five years.
Carrying letters throughout the en-
pire for about seven-tenths Of a cent,
Japan has the cheapest domestic postal
service in the world.
The term "Eurasian" has been Off
cially discarded by the government Of
India, which has decided to adopt
"Anglo-Indian" in the next census.
A German engineer has perfected a
water power method for breaking down
rock in masses instead of crumbling it,
as usually is the case with such de-
vices.
Gently exhibited in Paris so pure and
perfectly formed that they can be sub
stituted for calcite in optical instru-
ments.
A Brazilian railroad which found 1t
could not use wooden telegraph poles
because of attacks by insects is utiliz-
ing old rails, erected in pairs, to hold
the wires.
Spectacles with a white spot in the
center of black disk on each lens, the
invention of an English doctor, are said
to induce drowsiness in a wearer, cur
ing insomnia.
There are thirty dental surgeries for
the school children of Sweden, the eff
feet Of which has been to reduce alb
sences from school on account Of tooth
ache to a negligible minimum.
Claim is made that the new bridge
spanning the Eel river at Weeott, CAL,
is the longest and largest REINFORCED
concrete structure Of the kind In the
world 1t is 2,5O1 feet over all.
There were $4,000 automobiles in
Iowa on July 1 last, the greater num-
Der owned by the farmer and villager.
This is five to one as compared with
New York state on the basis Of pOpu
lation.
Automatic revolvers firing nine shots
and capable Of being carried at full
cock are to be furnished to London pO-
licemen patrolling districts in the west
end. Soho and the neighborhood Of the
docks.
The annual report Of the isthmian
canal commission shows that so far
1898, SCI 1856 has been expended on the
Panama canal, and $S1, 639.531 will
be required before the waterway is
opened in January, 1915.
The Earl of Meath in an address be-
fore a girls club said that there were
100000 more women than men and
the future Of the British empire not
many years hence was going to be de-
cided not by men, but by women"
Last year the Philippine government
spent over $3.50, 900 of local revenue
for educating half a million children.
There are at present employed as SUI
pervisors and classroom teachers over
5000 American and native instructors.
Cheesemakers in Holland by max
ing use Of government stamps are
endeavoring to make the full fat prod
uct more profitable by marking it as
such. This at the same time will pro-
20 30 %
periOr qualities.
Great Britain has about $8O,OOO,OO0
invested in hounds, horses for follow
ing the hunt and hunt club property.
There is one clerical master of fox
hounds, the Rev. e. A. Milne, who has
been master of the Cattistock hounds
for eleven seasons.
Kansas City, Kan, is said to be the
only town in America that runs post
Office in another town. The stockyards
station of the Kansas City (Kan) Office
is located in Kansas City, Mo-, and it
furnishes nearly one-half of the postal
receipts for the Kansas town.
Fourth place among the tea export
ing countries of the world is taken by
Java, which follows closely after ia
pan. British India, with Ceylon, is
first and China second. Java is rapid
~ gaining on Japan, for the cultiva
ton Of tea is increasing steadily and
the product is gaining in quality.
Fifty members Of golf clubs were
present at the first meeting in London
of the Caddies' Aid association, an
organization formed for the purpose
Of improving the condition of caddies
Plans for employing caddies at fixed
weekly wages and teaching them use
full trades were discussed at the meet
ing.
Mr.. John Murray, the publisher,
speaking in London on the censorship
of literature, instanced a book pub
Iished last year, Of which a dozen
people had told him they would never
allow 1t in their houses. 'They had
all anDarentlV read the hOok-jn the