The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-01-19
QUEEN sABE.

CU1u4 HADAs
The Prince Of Wales, on his birthday,
was presented with a knife having one hum
dred and ninety-one blades, counting razors,
cork-screWs and all.
The lightning used on theatrical stages
costs $50 az ounce; but then so little is re-
quired that you can kill a $50 brigand and
ten $12 brigands so beautifully for about two
cents. A little lightning is dangerous thing.
-Gusta7e Dore is working every night and
sometimes almost all night on his illustrations
of Shakespeare's plays. Some Of the draw
ings are said to be extraordinarily powerful.
He thinks that 'sCoriolanus" is the poets
masterpiece.
The convention between Russia and the
Vatican, which gives such satisfaction at
Rome, was largely brought about by Prince
Oubril, Russian ambassador at Vienna, where
Cardinal Jacobini was nuncio. The Prince
is himself a Catholic. ARussian p%lenipoten-
tiary is to be sent to Rome. The convention
does not include the Polish Catholics.
The reason alleged in China why Chinese
become Christians on reading the bible is that
the ink used has a power to Supply the reader
and take away his reason, and so make him
ready to believe false doctrine. The people
are warned against buying or reading foreign
books. The missionaries are suspected Of
desiring to kidnap Chinese children to sell
them.
"A very interesting lecture was recently
delivered before the Anthropological Insti-
tute, London, by Mr.. J. T. R%owbotham, on
the different stages ia the development Of the
he said, the varieties of musical instruments
may be counted by hundreds, yet they are all
reducible under three distinct types 1. The
drum type. 2. The pipe type. 8. The Tyre
type. These three types are representative
of three distinct stages of development
through which prehistoric music had passed,
and in the order just stated. The first period
in the development Of music was the drum
stage, in which drums and drums alone were
used by man. The second was the pipe stage,
in which pipes as well as drums were used.
Third was the Tyre stage,in which stringed in
struments were added to the stock. These
three stages answer respectively to rhythm,
melody, and harmony. In the musical his
tory Of mankind the Tyre stage is never found
to precede the pipe stage, nor the pipe stage
to precele the drum stage.
From a comparison of the results OF re-
cent deep-sea %soundings, it appears that the
following are just generalizations I. The
water of the North Pacific is in its whole mass
cooler than that of the Atlantic. 2. The wa
ter of the South Pacific is, down to 1926 feet,
somewhat warmer than that Of the Atlantic,
but below that depth cooler. 8. The bottom
temperatures are generally lower in the Paci-
TIC than in the Atlantic at the same depths
and in the same degree of latitude; but no.
where in the Pacific are found such low bot
tom temperatures as in the Antarctic portion
of the South Atlantic, where temperatures OF
--0.3 c~entigrade to DC degrees have been
measured. 4. In the western parts Of the
Pacific and the adjoining parts Of the East
India archipelago, the temperature of the wa
ter reaches it's minimum at depths between
1857 and 8,937 feet, remaining the same
from this depth to the bottom, In the whole
of the Atlantic the temperature from 8,937
feet to the bottom gradually though slowly
increases.