The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1880-10-27
QUEEN sABB.

Gas is now being made from turf IL
South America.
The river Nile has only q fall Of = inches
IN its last 1000 miles.
THE French are constructing enormous
balloons, for war purposes.
The Ukjah Gal Press says that Dr.Clan-
son, OF that place, recommends common bak-
ing soda applied TO the wound as d safe cure
FOR rattlesnake bites.
"A French sayant concludes that diamonds
are OF p~lutonic origin, and derived from or
ganic matter under the influence of great
pressure and high temperature.
An Italian physician believes he has dis
covered that the cause of i'll health results
from the nerves getting out tune or harmony.
He can tune them to any pitch and degree
Of harmony.
Excavations for drainage in Cirencester,
opposite the old church, are revealing large
masses and cores OF ancient Walling, and o
great amount Of Roman and medieval relics,
chiefly coins and ictiiia. They will proba-
bly, be deposited III the town museum.
1T is estimated that, during the last five
years, 300, 600 miles of railroads have been
constructed, the distribution being about
28, 900 miles in the United Kingdom, 100, 900
miles in America, 49, 600 in Russia, 26, 900
in France, Is, 900 in Austria, and Il, 900 in
India.
Near Dorpat, in the Russian Baltic Pro-
vinces, has just been unearthed the remains
Of a box containing twenty Swedish coins,
dating from 1916 to 1000, a number of Revel
coins struck in 1888, and others, of Riga
origin, manufactured in 1876. It is believed
that the box must nave been buried during
the invasion Of Dorpat by the Poles in 1903.
Benin and Wagner in their sixth issues
of he population Of the Earth which has
just appeared, estimate the total population
at ! 49,, 9S55,450. TWO years ago the esti-
mate was 1,A39, 600, 900. Europe is assigned
315, o2o, 900; Asia, 83A, 707, 900; Africa, 205, 600,
900; Australia and Polynesia, 4,031, 800; the
Polar regions, 81, 900; the United States, 49,
900, 900.
Recently The English 38-ton gun, with q
powder charge Of 1G0lb. and q Palliser shell
weighing SO0lb, was tried against q wrought
iron section Of 8 ships turret 20 inches in
thickness. The mazzle velocity was 1900
feet per second, and the result was that the
section broke into three pieces. The pro-
jectile did not penetrate, but completely
crushed 0~ne-fourth OF The turret.
Bishop Eligio Cost, at C~hang-Tong. in
China. has invented an alphabet of 50 letters
by means Of which all the sounds Of the
Chinese language can, it is said be represent
ed. The Emperor Of Austria has been so
well pleased with the invention that he has
presented the Bishop with a complete typo
graphical apparatus, SO that the new alphabet
may be employed in printing. The charac-
now used by the Chinese number 10000.
A new process Of using up old steel has
been patented. The resultantis a new
metal which is said to possess extraordinary
strength and ductility. The process consists
Of mixing up old steel with a patent COM
pound and subjecting the whole to an i'm
mense furnace heat, when the particles ANAL
gamate. Steel made on this plan has been
turned out at the Hunslet Works, and sold
readily for G45 per ton. The process is
said to be second only in Importance TO Bes-
3emer's invention, and it will be especially
valuable as finding use for old Bessemer
steel rails.
BY means Of an ingenious clock-Work
apparatus, Marcy, the French biologist, has
obtained a number Of exceedingly interesting
graphic illustrations Of the manner in which
nan walks. The instrument is a vertical
barrel, covered with finely ruled paper, and
IS the barrel is made to reyolYe by the
within it q little pencil makes q
mark on the paper, as the person whose walk
$ under Investigation steps along with the
clustering device. A little air compressor
worked by the foot of the walker at each
tep, sends q current of air through q flexible
'lpe to the instrument, and gives d more or
7ss Up and down movement to the pencil. 1t
.as been found that the step IN going up ill
longer than il is in descending; that the
Eep is longer for Al ~unburdened man than it
for 9 burdened one, and that the step is
onger when the sole Of the boot is thick
nd prolonged beyond the toe than when il is
hort and flexible. When . person aseends
bill be qaickens bis pace, but diirninislhaas
: length, and be does just exactly The op-
osite when descending Al inclination On
e ground. ItWould seem that Marey's Oh
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