The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-03-05
NO. SO
ITEMS OF INTER EST.

In Bavaria ninty per cent Of all build
ings are insured.
s. Up 10 tile present time over 20, 600 silver
IT, mines have been located in Arizona
Lassoing diamond shirt studs with silk
cord is the latest trick on Broadway, New
. York.
Rampagious small boys stoning the tele-
graph wires cost England $4,000 last
year -......-. -
In the Spanish provinces the hotel cooks
a use the same style of pots used by the Ro-
mans before Christ.
1t is estimated that sewing machines
use ninety per cent of the thread that ia
made every year.
The Court of Queens Bench Of Quebec
has decided that man who frightens an
other to death is guilty of manslaughter.
A New Jersey clergyman refuses to
make return of his marriages to the State,
claiming to be responsible only to God.
| There are about 24,00O stands of bees
owned in San Diego county, Cal, yielding
80 =" e9''tAAt1d, q AAltIAou pounds Oh money
a year,
American street cars are now running in
nearly every large city in the world, and
horses continue to be exported from this
country to Europe.
Under the general law of Missouri, iur-
ors must be able to read. In St. Louis
Chis disqualities ninety per cent of the
colored residents.
More boys than girls are born in Great
Britain, but statistics show that there are
about a million more women than men in
the kingdom
formerly one sermon converted three
thousand sinners" said Elder Burgess, of
Butler University, Ind, in sermon, re-
'ently, ''now it takes three thousand ser
mons to convert one sinncr.''
y Pennsylvania girl waited q whole wear
'eiore bringing suit for damages against
man who had Kissed her without warn
ng, and the crushing verdict Of enc cent
amages took her breath away.
The height of Partisan elegance is to
'ok like japanese lady. Sandal essence,
'sy nails, yellow face powder, and satin
nooth hair, are some of the details neces-
.ry to the perfection of style.
Among the articles sent through the
nglsh mails the pastyear were live mice.
'ldfnches, lizards, cutlery, medicine, per-
merry, articles of clothing, squirrel.
n, frogs, vegetables and box contain
g eight live snakes. .@~ "
A resident of Yinton, Iowa, returned
: several years his property for ASSESS
ent at from $1,000 to 5000. Now he fs
ad, and his administrator swears that
E estate is worth $4,000. SO the county
ings suit for -, 250 back taxes.
Figures show that the American people
: drinking less whiskey and more beer
IN Ill the previous year-the falling off
whiskey consumed the past year being
10000 gallons compared with the fiscal
II OF 1877, and an increas of l,50O. 900
beer.
experiments have been n1ade
ii the electric light in Paris. during
hit snow storm, and additional ones will
oW when the next thick fog occurs, in
ich gas will be Of little or no avail.
'uld the electric light render objects
ble to the distance of even sixty or
enty feet, it will be used heneeforth at
the most populous points Of the streets.
With their excellent police system in
is, which obliges landlords to report
lvals of strangers, they are able to show
t 271 1872 travellers arrived between the
of May and the 1st of November. The
ling nationalities were thus represent
English, 64,oA; Belgians, 31,4I9;
mans, %, ,524; Italians, 16, All; residents
he United States, IA 800, &c.
letter from Iceland AYERS that an
5hquske was felt in Reijavik recently,
at the same time "large freso were
erved in the distance in the sea, sup
ed to have been volcanic submarine
ption. The weather had been yery
j, a number Of vessels have been lost
large fiocks Of sheep have been killed
the heavy snow storms, or literally
yn from the cliffs into the sea-