The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-05-23
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Despite the competition of electricity
the coal gas business of England is
rapidly expanding.
Aluminium pulleys for machinery are
said to lessen the friction and thus ex
tend the life of belts
There are now seven direct cable
soon there will be eight
The estimates for British naval ex-
penditure for 1912 are over f4.O0O.O0O
in excess of those for 1911.
Ell Mercurio celebrated its centennial
Feb. 10 last being the oldest news
paper now published in Chile.
Total debt per capita in the United
States in 1911 was $1O.83 as against
S11.35 in 1910 and SLIT in 1905.
In the mineral region around Mount
Aepro, in Sardinia, have been discover
ed some valuable asbestos deposits.
The manufacture of cement has at
tanned eighth rank for value among
the industries of the United States.
One pit pony which was brought up
from a mine at the beginning of the
English coal strike had not seen day
light for twenty-five years.
White ants in Australia have devel-
oped an appetite for the lead covering
and insulation of cables, which is
proving costly to telephone companies.
For testing the power of x ray
apparatus there have been invented
skeleton hands. made of paper. which
are about as opaque to the rays as
real hands.
An exhibition of rabbits recently
closed at Hamburg. The object Of the
exhibition was the encouragement Of
rabbit culture with view to provid-
ing cheap food.
Bankruptcy proceedings against an
Oxford student showed that he had
Incurred liabilities of 100000 since
June, 1910. through racing, gambling
and extravagant living.
It is estimated that in Asia there are
about 10000 telephones. mostly in ia
pan. The number in Singapore ex
ceeds 1000. and there are about as
many in Siam and Cochin China.
About 100000 Japanese will be ex-
amined for army service this year. an
increase of 10000 over last years con-
scription An improvement in physique
Is expected in this years recruits.
One hundred thousand placards bear
ing the words Beware Hatpins! have
been distributed broadcast in Mont
real. This lis the first step in move
ment to abolish the modern. danger
The commercial prosperity of Tuni-
STA is mainly due to the discovery of
phosphates in the territory by a
French scientist. to whom on account
of his public services. a monument is
to be erected.
Vital statistics ascribe short lives to
printers on the average. but the recent
report of the public printer states that
there are employed at present in the
government Office at Washington $50
persons over sixty-five years of age.
The Danish government, under the
advice of Professor Kellers. is trying
open air treatment as cure for luna
cy. The island of Llyoe has been ac
quired for the purpose. and large
number of lunatics are already under
treatment.
The population of Belgium increased
1919 per cent in the ten years 190010
and showed the same drift from coun-
try to city observable in other nations.
More than one-ffth of the population
is now concentrated in the four towns
Of Brussels, Antwerp. Client and Liege.
Lady Ashburton. the former New
York beauty. caused 5000 moles to be
trapped on her English estate and their
skins made into coats and muffs for
her three American sisters. The coats
contain 800 skins each and the muffs
each between eighty and ninety skins.
After being abandoned for the last
few years endless steel belts are com
ing into use again in Germany. They
are very thin bands from .O4 to SO
inch thick. but very broad. from eight
to sixteen inches, An adhesive mate
rial is applied to the pulley side to pre-
vent slipping.
Mark Twain satirized the French
duel effectively. but he is almost out
done by the sober report of a duel be-
tween two Partisan dramatic critics.,
in which the person most seriously in
jured was one of the seconds. who ac-
cidentally got in the way Of the clum-
sy swordsmen.
A recent report from Finland shows
that eight times as many men have
cancer Of the lip as women. Cancer
of the stomach is about as common in
women as in men A cancer COM
mission was appointed by the Finnish
Medical society and made a study of
the cancers in the hands of 313 physi-
clans.
In a recent automobile parade in
Bangkok there were more than 100
fine cars. You can see more motor
boats on the Menam river than you
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