The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-05-24

The students of the University at Tusca-
loosa, Ala had an eating match, in which
the victor ate thirty-seven biscuits in sixteen
minutes. But biscuits are probably small
down there.
Public men in France are more closely
connected with journalism than in any other
country. Theirs was essentially a newspa.
per man, and ex-Premier Simon Is now edi-
tor of The Gualois.
An Alabama man let a locomotive run over
bis hand for the purpose of sueing the rail
road company for damages: but his scheme
failed through his inability to show negli-
gence on the part of the company.
Cincinnati has its first four-in-haud drag,
and described, of course, as the finest Ia
the world. Even the whip cost $50, the har-
ness once took q prize at a fair, and the mon
ogram OF the owner-a theatre manager is
most gorgeously multiplied.
a paper on electricity says that the tele-
phone 10 now used by DORM ia connection
with his scientific exploration of the Bay of
Naples. The divers and buatman can quick
ly communicate with each other, thus saving
the former fatigueing journeys to the sur
face.
Queen Victoria has now but one more
child unprovided with a matrimonial part
ner. This is the Princess Beatrice, a Young
lady who IL fast nearing the portals Of that,
to most yoang woman, dreaded state-"Old
Maiddum." She was brn April 18th, 1857,
and is consequently going" 26.
Chicago is the greatest lumber market in
the w,rld. The single item of sawed lumber
received there ia 1881 would lay an inch
flooring fourteen feet wide around the earth
at the equator. The amount of lumber man
ufac,urtd in the three States OF Michigan,
Wisconsin and Minnesota during the 1881
would lay such a fl ,or fifty foot wide.
An Omaha man, in danger of losing his
house by the foreclosure Of a n ,rtg age, sold
his wife to an admirer for the $500 needed
to satisfy the claim. That was two years
ago, at which time the proceedings caused
considerable comment. The new couple
lived amicably together until lately, when
the origin \ husband, having prospered dur
ing his bachelorhood, bought back the wo-
mai at an advance of $50.
Mr.. Frank James, brother Of the late Mr..
jesse James, is a marvel of uhiquity. The
country seems full nf him. He is seen and
recognized in nearly every Western city OF
Importance about the time he is reported as
promanading Broadway, and at the same be
steps down into George to write a letter.
Again, he is farming down in Texas or
managing a herd of cattle on the plains.
There is evidently something too much of
Mir. Fcapk james.
T~hirty-one tourists are on their wav
around The world in a steam yacht. They
Started from England in Oetober. and reach
ed San Francisco last week. haying visited
the Mediterranean ports and the Pacific Is.
lands. the entire trip will last ten months.
The passengers are of both sexes and each
pays 81 500, for which they enjoy excellent
fare, the use Of q steam launch while in har-
bors, a band of music aboard, good me ical
attendance and the use of a splendid library.
Mrs. Rogers hair would not lie fat IN a
bang. 1t had been brushed back for forty
years, and refused to stay the other way.
But bangs were fashionable In the suburbs
OF Chicago where che lived, and she tsouldn't
bear to go without one. SO she wore a prop
ely shaped piece Of tin over her forehead
MORNINGS TO train the hair the way it should
60: The value Of the device for The purpose
intended Is not indicated In the account, but
II saved her life, for when q drunken neigh
Dor fired at her the bullet struck the tin and
Glanced off.
Prince de Rohab, 4 member Of the Aus
TRAN jockey club, and d bhreWd man of the
world Ia many ways, was recently persuaded
by IN American that he had discovered 9
process by which gold could be made at a
large profit. Wise. as the American inventor
was named, did not pretend that he had dis
covered the philosophers stone, but he con
fded 10 Prince de Rohan and TO a Frenct
gentleman, now deceased, that he was II
possession of q secret hy which ten ounces
of gold might, when melted with q due pro
cess Of viler metal, be converted into fit.
ounces. He offered to make some practical
experiments In the presence of the gentle
men, and the experiments seems so concln
sive that they consented to enter into par'
nership with him. A house was hired 70