The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-08-22
ROUND The GLOBE

tiOnal asset as bank clerks.
AS an exhibit in the London museum
q hanson cab is to be found.
The English Royal Geographical so
ciety now has nearly 5000 fellows.
The largest stone statue in the world
is in Japan, a figure forty-four feet
high.
The telephone line across the isthmus
Of Panama is strung on old railroad
tracks.
Old age pensions in England for the
current year are expected to amount
to G12. 900.
Ton for ton, warships are built in
this country as quickly as those abroad
and at less cost
The coal consumption Of the world
has just about doubled every ten years
for the last century.
Queensland is estimated to have 49,
100000 acres of forests as yet unin-
spected and unreserved.
A single vessel recently carried os-
trich feathers valued at 100000 from
South Africa to England.
Formerly cancer of the tongue &C.
Cured only among men. Now that so
many women have taken to smoking
it also occurs among them.
A new high record was established in
the Transvaal in producing gold worth
$17O.2S6,71S last year, an increase over
the previous years figures Of $14.55O.-
S75.
So many streets of Berlin are paved
with asphalt and wooden blocks that
it has been found necessary to fit the
horses with rope" shoes to prevent
slipping.
A night telegraph letter service was
inaugurated by the British postoffice
on June l. The rate is IL cents for
thirty-six words and l cent for each
additional word.
Hobart. Tasmania. has a machine
for spraying hot tar on the streets to
prevent dust. 1t contains d furnace
which heats the tar to the boiling point.
and the tar is applied under pressure.
A tablet and foundation designed by
John Duncan, A. r. S. A. has been
unveiled by W. B. Blaikie on Edin
burgh castle esplanade to mark the
place where witches used to be burned.
In telephone service New York city
may well claim precedence over Paris.
Official tests in each city show that
telephone connection may be obtained
i'm New York in just half the time that
is required in Paris
Two girls in Budapest who had de-
cided to fight duel over young man
with whom they were both in love
have settled the matter by becoming
engaged to the two men who volun-
teered to act as their seconds
That man is not too old to work
after he is sixty years of age is proved
by the figures just made public by the
Pennsylvania railroad. which has in
active service 4.717 employees who are
between the ages of sixty and seventy,
The twenty-four hour day has just
been adopted officially in France, but
it has not been received with any en-
AuC pCOplC LS1l W SSe lCS
advantages over the old fashioned
twelve hour day and twelve hour night.
Americans are now consuming 185
pounds Of meat annually per capita.
The people of Great Britain. who rank
next In the meat eating scale. get
along with 115 pounds, while those of
the Netherlands exist on forty-eight
pounds.
Every German city of consequence
has a number of palatial cafes which
are nothing else than huge clubhouses
without membership formality. In any
one Of these cafes are hundreds or
thousands Of patrons glancing over do
nestle and foreign newspapers and
magazines.
Black rain recently fell in Hamp-
been known before. In November,
1919, ink black rain fell steadily for
several hours in New York. and at
least twice during the last century
similar phenomenon has been observ-
ed in England.
"a MdSSdCAuSOCLS WOu1du Has IuF0uI-
ed an individual car strap" for the con-
venience Of women strap hangers who
dislike to hold on to the soiled leather
straps that are provided for their sup
port by the public service corporations
The new device is made of webbing
and hooks on to the leather strap.
Recently patents have been taken out
for an artificial silk the base of which
differs from those now in use. 1t has
the advantage that it is unin1amma
BILE, unaffected by humidity and in
destructible BY acids or by alcohol.
The new silk Is at base spun glass
spun at one-eighteenth of a hairs di-
ameter.
An international exposition Of book
making and the graphic arts connected
with it, including photography. will be
held at Leipzig. the center of the book
industry in Germany. from May to
October, 1914. the one hundred and fif-
tieth anniversary of the royal academy