The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1880-12-22
QUEEN SABE.

The Prince Of Wales rides about q great
deal in 8 private hanson cab which has
many comfortable improvements. Among
these is a travelling clock with a luminous
dial-face set in the centre of the splash-board.
Out Of a grand total of 455, $40, 900 bush
els of wheat grown in this country this year,
the production of the South was only Il, $780,
900 bushels, Or about 80, 900, 900 bushels less
than the actual consumption Of that section.
The late astronomer, Professor Watson,
had a remarkable memory. When an under
graduate be used to memorize long passages
Of the Greek and Latin authors, which be
sometimes in after years repeated to his
friends with complete accuracy.
The North German Lloyds line of steam
ships will deliver according to contract 5000
Roumanian Jews in New York during the
month of December, This is the beginning
Of a large immigration Of this people driven
from Roumanla by persecution.
Asparagus grows wild in France, and
may be gathered in many forests. The wild
asparagus is long, thin and green, and has a
slightly acid but agreeable taste. 1t was first
cultivated by a well-known %horticulturist,
Louis Therauit, about 100 years ago.
Mrs Schliemann helps her husband in all
his scientific labors, experimenting excava-
tions under his direction and bravely disre-
garding sun and dust. She wears while en-
gagged in this work a plain, trim dress and
jacket, and carries a stout umbrella.
Kate Fields says the marked difference
between English and American newspapers
is that the latter have a capacity for keen and
witty paragraphs, while the former-as for
example, the London TSmes-often devote q
column to what might be condensed into a
dozen lines.
The Rev. Antonio Arrighis has collected
$4,000 in this country for the benefit Of the
Free Church of Italy. He will return to Italy
shortly and Father Gavazzi will arrive. The
latter's last visit to this country was quite
successful. The Free Church and the Wal
densian Church are both very prosperous.
Lord Beaconsfeld is the first knight Of
the Garter since the days of Walpole who has
written q novel. Few Of the knights nave
written anything but their names, and the
earlier Knights could not do that. Clarendon,
who declined the garter, left q name in En-
glish literature, and might be called the father
Of British history as well as Of British queens.
Chesterfield who wore the garter, dabbled in
literature as a favor, but peers who write are
rare, and few but peers are raised to the
Order.
While q boy was bathing at the opening
OF a channel connecting the Fountain of the
Virgin and the Pool of Sloan, at Jerusalem,
he discovered a rock upon which were craven
a number of Phnnician characters. They
are small and finely wrought, but unfortu-
nately not deeply cut. Part of the stone is
submerged and hidden a silicate deposit. At
ter the channel has been drained and the de-
post carried away it is expected that con-
light on the topography Of Jerusa-
lem will hereby be gained.
In 1906 a Scotchman wrote a big book to
prove that Napoleon Bonaparte's real name
was John Oswald, and that he was born in
Edinburgh. a man named Oswald was
known to have left Scotland and entered the |
army Of the French Republic. He was a
man Of vast courage and enterprise, possessed
Of an indomitable will, and was an ardent adj
mirer Of Ossian. Napoleon was all this, but
the facts concerning him and his family were
so we'll known that the Scotch bookmaker's |
extravagant theory made but little impression
and was soon forgotten.
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