Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-11-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

123, 900.
OF the $4,000 lady teachers in
France IL 900 are Sisters.
Only IL per cent OF the population
OF India can read and write.
Germany sends 10000 canaries to
America every year.
The Imperial University of Toxic,
Japan, has 1000 scholars enrolled.
There are over IL, 500, 900 pupils in
the public schools OF the United States.
Joseph Walker of Massachusetts in
vented the wooden shoe peg in 1918.
On the average boy costs a par
ent about 5000 a year until 20 years
OF age.
Chicago does not lack for reading
matter. There are 531 newspapers
published there.
Apple trees set out eighty years ago
in New Haven, Conn, bore excellent
fruit this fall.
The British Foreign Bible society
has distributed 124 100000 copies OF
religious writings in eighty-seven years.
1t takes about three seconds for a
message to go from one end of the At
lantic cable to the other-about 700
miles a second.
A Florida man found twenty-five
fish" in the stomach of a moccasin
snake which he shot few days ago.
Thread is a simple thing, but simple
as it is there are 1000 kinds of it, and
each kind goes through hundreds OF
different processes.
From 1921 to 1890 over 15, ,OOO,-
600 immigrants arrived in this coun-
try, a number equalling one-fourth
the entire population OF the United
States.
1t is said that, including the officers
holding honorary rank, there ere
2,05O generals in the British army, or
nearly one for every 100 soldiers.
Printing was introduced into Chill
in the year 1912 with little screw
press brought from the United States,
which is still preserved in the national
museum.
While the armies OF the British en-
pire cost about S177 900, 900 a year,
the German army costs about $167,-
0OO, 900 year and the French army
a little over $40, 100000.
Efforts are being made in Mexico to
increase the production of cotton and
to make true the prediction in some
of the government reports that Mex
leo will one day occupy a position
among the first, If not the first OF the
worlds cotton producers.
Florida is probably the best tim
bered state in the Union. Out OF
about 3S,OOO,OOO acres, only some
100000 are included in farms, the
rest, nineteen-twentieths, exclusive OF
the area covered by lakes and rivers,
being covered with heavy forests.
The dividends paid by mining COM
panies of this country, which report
their earnings, amounted to 81 ,421,
S75 during October. The total for the
first ten months of the year is $14,.
O95, $3.50, an amount largely in excess
of that paid in the same period ol
1890.
The Westinghouse Machine company
and the Westinghouse Electrical and
Manufacturing company together are
now manufacturing the first combined
engine and generator for street rail
way service. In size they run from
100 to 500 horse power. As yet nont
of the machines are in use, but the
Minneapolis Street Railway company
intends using them, and has Just
placed an order for one hundred 2Ot
horse power machines.
A Scotch visitor who called at thu
Homestead plant recently said: .'lf
were to 60 back to Scotland and tel
them there what l have seen toda!
they would tell me very quickly tha
was 'gaffing' them. You roll JUS
four plates while we roll one in tn
old country. Another importan
thing is that you do not need to ge
. your steel so hot as we do at home
You must know that in our plant w
use soft rolls, and it is absolutel.
necessary to bring the steel to tn
rolls with dripping heat so that NJ
foreign particles may cling to the sur
face of the ingot and thus indent tn
. rolls. 1t is also necessary to scrap
the bottom OF the ingot or slab befor
= it is pressed through the rolls. Ther
is no use denying the fact. you Amer
cans have left us far behind in tn
iron and steel mills"