The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-05-18
PERSONAL AND IMPERsONAL.

EdlSOn'S electric light snares are up ~ Pi:-
600 a share and are ecaEce at that.
The recent municipal elections IN SPAN re-
suited in the return Of 28,079 candidates IA
vorable to the present ministry ana 5,o24hos-
tile.
Before BIZ. Vanderbilt left For Europe ne
purchased $1,000, 600 more Of government
bonds. This makes $67, 00o, 600 this unfor-
tunate man has invested.
The Canadian Police authorities refuse 70
recognize the afix "yille" when tackled to
the names of new haualets. Thus Hanlan-
vile. lust named after the oarsrnan, is cut
down TO Hanlan.
Worth lately made for an English lady
what is reported to be the handsomest CLOAK
which ever left his shop. It is of green vel
vet bordered and trimmed with the tails or
Russian sables. The cost was $4,000.
The Anti-M Monopoly League of Jersey City
are moving to secure water fronts in this
cjty and to tax the railroad property for the
benefit of the city. They are worth about
ejxty millions and practically not taxed.
An English steamship company has re
Gently been organized for the purpose of run
ming a fast line between New York and LiV-
erpool, the time not to exceed seven days be-
tween those cities. Five steamers are to
be built, each with accommodations for 400
cabin passengers.
Secretary Blaine, talking to some business
men, said recently that he intends to use ev-
cry exertion TO increase the trade between
the United States and Mexico, and that he
wants to see legislation enacted next winter
bY Congress to increase the facilities for COM
munication between this country and Mexico
and to build up Mexican trade.
George Moreton, q Canadian cheese expor-
ter, will undertake q scheme for q great dairy
colony in the Northwest. There are to be
224 farms of 100 acres each, stocked at the
outset with thirty COWS each, The novelty
will be a narrow guage railroad, with a
switch station on each farm, so that milk can
be carried to the central cheese factory twice
a day.
The last parliamentary election in Glou-
cester, England, has been made the subject
Of investigation, and the result is an appalling
disclosure of venalty and corruption. Of the
4,JU& pUtCISx ~. zoo WC4E U1ADSG, duO ICV IiSlS
were the bribers. The black list includes two
aldermen, three magistrates, fifteen members
of the city council and numerous other high
officials.
Some people say that If q man has a good
hat he is well dressed. The same idea, says
the New York Herald, prevails among many
mothers in regard to their little girls. Among
the curiositie5 noticeable upon one Of the av-
enues the other day, was q little girl of ten
with a calico dress and $25 bonnet, and she
was carrying home 8 cabbage and a pitcher
of beer.
The Grand Duke Constantine's Oldest son,
who has been go many years in disgrace, ap-
piled himself hambly to the Emperor to be al
lowed to visit St. Petersburg and gaze once
more on the honored features Of the late
Gar. The unfortunate prince met with q
cruel rebuff, and was Informed by telegraph
that the misdoings Of him and bis could never
be forgotten.
The Vienna correspondent Of the London
Economist writes That the murder Of the Gar
made &c little impression On the Austrian and
German bourses that the public were quite
surprised 1.-THE money market" says this
authority, shas seldom been SO a~ll-poWerful
as at present. At any other time the bourses
would have suffered greatly from any such
event, but as il was financial operations of a
magnitude rare in the history of finance
were made in the same week.
The Russian court is purchasing all the
houses ia the neighborhood Of the Ants
chkow Palace. The Hotel Bellevue on the
Newskiprospect, and several other houses in
TomasoW-Ulck have already been purchased.
It is the intention to surround the palace by
an underground gallery, which will be lighted
by gas and constantly traversed by Cossacks
and guards Of the Pawlow Regiment. Thus
it is hoped the excavation Of mines for the
purpose Of blowing up the palace can be pre-
vented.
The experiments made by Prof. Trautwine
show that a rather soft brick will crush un-
der a weight of from $50 to 500 pounds TO
the square inch, or about 80 to 40 tons per
square foot. This last is about the crushing
limit Of the best sandstone, two-thirds as
much as that of the best marbles or lime
stones. and one-helf IS much as the best
GRANTEES or roofing states. Masses of brick
WORK, however, Will crush under much
smaller loads than single bricks and cracking
and splitting usually commences under about
one-half the crushing loads.
It begins to look IS if Boston were dispos-
ed to take into serious consideration the pro-
ject of q Worlds Fair il 1886, Various Bos-
ton papers have given q cautious hearing TO
the enterprise, and now the Herald publishes
q half page map Of the proposed site, which
is 10 be q triangle, bounded by Huntington
avenue, Park street, and the line of the Bos.
ton Il Albany Railroad The nlan nrnnnses