The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-01-19
HERE AND THERE.

One-half the population of Franc,
lives by agriculture.
Millais is to paint picture O
Gladstone for his old college at Ok.
| ford.
The export of diamonds from
Aug. to Nov. 80 amounted to less
than $1,000.
Armour Il Co. of Chicago slaugh
tered 100000 hogs and 251 900
cattle last year.
Topeka, Kan, has elected Mr..
Bradford Miller, strict prohibi-
ZIONIST, as mayor.
The Washington monument is
said to be only one-sixty-fourth OF
an inch out of plumb.
Nebraska's Mennonitcs dam the
ravines on their farms, and thus
store water for their stock.
Stephen A. Dorsey, of Star Route
notoricty, is said to aspire to be the
first L. S. Senator from New Mex
leo.
A Volinis, Mich, man pays
$3.50 taxes this year-6O cents on
his house and lot and $500 on his
dog.
There were only nine accidents to
trains, by which passengers were
killed, in England in the year
1882.
There were % homicides in San
Francisco within the year, and
nearly all of them amounted to
murder.
During the past four years, Ar
kansas, Florida, Louisiana and
Texas have doubled their railroad
mileage.
Queen Victoria won all the
champion honors for cattle at
the Smithfeld, London, exhibition
this year.
Boyer Bazelais, the leader of the
Havtian instruction. is dead, hav-
ing poisoned himself after being
wounded.
A giantess, nine feet high and
weighing 800 pounds, died in Lon
don the other day. Her name was
Ann Dunn:
The Canton of Nalais, Switzer-
land, has decided to Introduce the
the penalty Of death for the crime
of murder.
A dental institute is to bo added
to the Berlin university by order
of the German minister of public
education.
Prohibition is gaining ground
even in Texas, where two counties
have recently voted against licens-
ing saloons.
In Europe, the states which have
most women arc Spain and Portu
gal. Greece has few more men
than W WOm2n.
The Jews are more numerous IN
Hamburg, Frankfort, Amsterdam
and Warsaw than in any other Eu-
ropean towns.
Queen Victoria has written a new
book, entitled "More Leaves fronl
the Journal of Life in the Highlands
from 1862 to 1882"
The quantity Of ice shipped from
Norwegian ports in 1892 was 227,-
900 tons, the largest amount ever
shipped from that country.
The Espiratu Santo mine iii the
Darien, which gave millions to the
Spaniards and was lost for a num-
Der Of years, has been re-discov-
cred.
Statistics just issued by the Dutch
government show that an area of at
least $4,000 acres has been recovered
from the sea within the last 800
years.
Mississippi has gained 100 per
centin five years in manufacturing
industries, having at this time ST.
100000 invested il such enter
prises.
Lord Lornc's attempt to acclima-
tie moose deer at Inverary, Scot.
land, has failed; but the mtsk-rats,
wild turkeys, etc, appear to be do
ing well.
A Japanese student has been Sc
lcctcd for the important position of
assistant to the Professor of AnatQz
my at the University Of herlin,
Germany.
Penns,y2y$Ania rs reektessty de-
stroyina heG timber. Her ship
ments, us reckoned at Williams
port, footed up to more than 4)o,-
100000 feet last year.
Representative Hewitt, the new
chairman of the Committee on Pen
l. Il I