Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-11-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The first public library in Rome was
founded 167 b. c.
The cemeteries of London cover an
area OF over two thousand acres.
A leopard recently shot in Bengal
had killed at various times l54 per-
sons.
At stylish banquets it is the custom
to serve oysters on plates carved out
of ice.
zThere are compulsory education
laws in twenty-seven OF the states and
territories.
| The Odd-Fellows are to have a ma
tional sanitarium at Hot Springs,
Ark. 1t is to cost 100000.
Ara5ella Mansfield, OF Iowa, was
the first woman admitted to the bar
in the United States. She became q
full-hedged lawyer in 1869.
Five hundred Chinese coolies have
been engaged as an experiment to
work upon the coffee and cotton plan
tations in East Africa.
| Do mosquitoes migrate by train?
1t is asserted that Dallas, Tex, was
| without mosquitoes until a railroad
train ran through the town.
Rather more than 90 persons in
every 100 in London are living in
comfort, while rather more than thirty
In every 100 are living in poverty.
Women require one hour of sleep
more day than men. Fewer of the
latter reach the age of fifty than the
former, but afterward the sterner sex
has the best of it.
A ten pound cannon ball was re-
Gently dug up at Lakeside, Ind. 1t
has been identified as a relic of the
times when Mad Anthony was in COM
mand thereabouts.
A curious circumstance in connec-
ton with the recent epidemic of chol-
era at Hamburg was the departure OF
all the birds from the city only a few
days prior to the outbreak.
A confirmed topper in Atchison, Kas.
was induced to promise that he would
take the Keeley cure. To pay his ex-
penses he was given $50. With this
sum he went on a roaring spree.
Five generations are represented by
the members of the family of Philip c.
Drumel of Philadelphia. He is ninety
TOUR years old and was a drummer
boy under Napoleon at the burning of
Moscow.
1t is estimated that 10000 incan-
descent lamps are daily made In the
United States. A recent decision of
the United States circuit court of ap-
peals gives to the Edison company the
ar ,nIt 20
The Salton lake, a great body of
water in the Colorado desert, caused
by an overflow of the Colorado river,
has disappeared, and now what was
once an area of barren sand greets
the eye like sea of verdure.
Peddlers unwittingy spread infec
tious diseases by roaming from house
TO house. Some years ago, in a village
where diptheria was prevalent, the in
mates OF the houses escaped is where
the peddlers were not allowed en-
trance ...-
The Kalmucks of Astrakhan, a roy
ing people numbering about 100000
souls, have at last been freed from
serfdom. When the other Russian
serfs were freed In 1861 it was con-
sidered dangerous to extend this privi-
lege to these people, lest their wildness
would lead to its abuse.
In.the limited space between Worth
street and the Battery, where there
are many large wholesale houses, it is
stated that $4,000 women are en-
ployed as typewriters. A single type
writing machine company finds en-
ployment, through it's various offices,
for 10, 1000 women a year.
The oldest man in the world, it is
believed, died few weeks ago in Tiflis,
Asiatic Russia. His name was Mar
denoff, his age was 164 years and he
left a widow 120 years old. Anthem
tic records show that he was born in
Wladikawkes in 1928. He had eighteen
sons and one of them died in 1872 at
the age of ninety-ive.
The originator of the theory that
the earth is round was probably
Thales, of Miletus, about GAO B. c.
He not only taught that the earth
was globblar in form, but of the five
zones. some of the principal circles of
the sphere, the capacity OF the moon
and the true course of the lunar
eclipses.