The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-05-10
HERE AND THERE.

The London Truth says that
Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, will be
the next Cardinal.
A conservative and safe calcula-
ton places the Montana production of pure
copper for 1885 at O,O0o, 900 pounds.
Since active operations began in
the Black Hills mines in Dakota, 1,512, 037
tons Of good ore have been milled, yield
ing $40, 1916
at the annual meeting of the
Standard Oil Company, report was sub
miited showing that the profits of the con,-
pany last year were sl2,ooO.oOO.
Baseball is apparently the FASH
ionable Sunday amusement in St. Louis,
some 10000 people having witnessed u
championship game on recent Sabbath.
The Chicago Tribune says: The
Edmunds Presidential glacicr-for so cold
a man as the Vermont Senator could not
be said to have boom-slid forward f. "
! .'eet further yesterday.
A Berlin correspondent writes !:
A singular light is thrown on the moral
condition of the Berlin population from
| the fact that on Wednesday of last week no
fewer than five trials came off in three
| different law courts which neeessitated the
strict exclusion Of the public.
Although Great Britain has, dur
ing the last 13 or Ii years been producing
oyer 1Oo, 900, 900 tons of coal annually (l56,-
500, 900 during 1892 from about $500 COL
lieries, it has been estimated there remains
something like 135, 900, 100000 tons still
available.
The judicial statistics of Francs
for the past five years show that there has
been yearly average of over 800 men
| tried for murder III various degrees; but,
thanks to juries finding extsnuating cir
cumstances. and the leniency which NJ.
Grevy has shown. the average OF executions
has not amounted to FIVE a year. Over =
thousand murderers have found their way
to New Caledonia since NJ. Grevey became
President
A new native Indian journal has,
according to the Madras Athennum, been
started for the express purpose of advoca-
ting the remarriagc of Indian widows and
the reduction of the wedding expenses.
which Indian custom renders costly. In .
recent number Of the new organ We are
told seyen Hindoo widows announce their
readiness to re-enter the marriage state. In
one case the widow is only IL years of age,
and her father is anxious to betroth her to
a Bengal gentleman.
The abolishment of slavery in
Brazil is going steadily forward. A calcu-'
lation which has been made of the exist
ing slayes reduces to 100000 the 1,542.-
232 on the special register when closed Oh
September 3Oth, 1873. Of the difference,
about loo, 900 is due to emancipation, of
which about $1,000 was affected by the
Treasury at the cost of lO.420.0Oo milreis.
exclusive of !, ,OOJ 600 supplied by the slaves
themselves, and there is SUM Of about g..
600, 600 or 5000, 900 milrcis yet to be used
in emancipations.
The paucity of the medical men
in Russia, writes correspondent, and the
habits of the rural population combine to
make the Russian death rate the highest in
Europe. Excepting the two capitals.
where there are so many German physi-
clans, there is no district in the empire
sufficiently supplied with doctors. Accor~
ding to the latest returns. the average du<
ration of life in Russia is only 20 years.
The mortality among infants is frishtfnl,
More than 60 per cent. die before they
reach their fifth year. Nearly 100000
children perish every year. Of 100000
boys, only 3,77O.O 900 attain the age Of mili<
tary service that is to say their 25th year.
and of these at least GOO, 900 are found by
reason of slortness of stature and weakness.
of body to be unfit for military duties.