The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1880-12-01
Fl RIVER PRESS.
QUEEN sABE.

Buddhism is rapidly losing is hold 10
Japan. Since 1878. in a single district, u
temples have been diverted to secular uses.
It is estimated that in the Empire more than
seven hundred temples have been thus seoul
arized within nine years past.
DR.. Cutter says that the increase OF ner-
vous diseases, decaying teeth, premature
badness and general lack Of muscular and
bone strength, are greatly due to the lmpoV-
erished quality Of -four now in use, the gluten
being thrown away in order to make the hour
white. A prominent miller denies that the
flour is impoverished. He says that modern
processes Of milling are so perfect that every
part OF the grain Of wheat except the outer
covering goes into the flour.
Mr.. S. B. Ruggles, of New York, has
completed q work on the agricultural progress
Of the nation 10 cheapeniDg the food Of
America and Europe. It exhibits a growth
in cereal products from 615,OOO,OO 0 bushels
1910 10 8O2, 600, 600 in 1850, 1888, 900, 900 in
1870, ATS, 900, 900, in 1873 The annual pro-
ducts increased from So, 965, 000, 600, in 1850
to 7,977, 600, 900 in 1860, and H. 600, 900, 900
in 1870, yielding, after paying for labor and
wages, a net amount Of SO, 40, 900, 900, being
nearly 30 per cent. on the total. The book
states that there are 400, 900 600 acres of
land Immediately available north of the Ohio
river, which can produce in wheat or other
equivalent cereals at least 4800 600 600 bu-
shells annually to meet the demands of a
greatly increasing population.
"A system Of electrical railway signalling
shown at the Cincinnati Exhibition, insulates
sections Of the track a mile long, so that the
rails, switches and drawbridges, when all are
in order for a train to run over them, make a
complete circuit. II any part Of the roadway
is broken--a rail out of place, a switch turn
ed or the drawbridge open, the circuit is bro
ken and a danger signal calls attention to the
fact. If the battery has been neglected or is
out of order the danger signal is set in other
words, this signal may be said to be always
up, except when everything is right for atrain
70 move on q section. Danger is assumed,
and the presumption (and signaD of danger
can only be removed when the battery and
the roadway are in perfect working order.
This apparatus on a single track road, where
trains run both ways, has signals at both ends
Of each section, SO that two trains, If the sig
nails are obeyed will not enter upon the same
section at the same time.
The steady growth of the shipments of
flour from this country to Great Britain is at
tracing attention abroad. The Pail M0H
Gazette, Of Oct. 81, remarking on the pur-
chase of $4,000 sacks of flour, from the
United States the preceding week, infers
that the increase Of shipments must cause
English millers anxiety. The number of new
mills erected in ~,hisecountry are taken as
evidence conclusive that our millers are in
tent on pushing the flour trade in England.
The proximity of wheat and water, the
cheapest motive power, to the American pro-
ducers Of flour, are not the only special adj
vantages enjoyed by them over the foreigners
with whom they compete. Weight for
weight -four is worth more than wheat, and
is, therefore, the better enabled to bear the
cost Of transportation. The English journal
quoted concludes with the view that 'sThe
English miller is destined to feel the effect of
American competition quite. as severely as
the English farmer or manufacturer.