The Helena independent., 1894-11-16

Artificial whalebone is made from
leather.
The oldest manufactured weapon is
the sword,
Fruit Is supplanting wheat on Calf
foruia farms.
The most abundant free metal In the
earths crust Is copper.
The engines OF the world can do the
work OF 1000. 10000 men,
American corset factories represent
m investment OF $7.OOO,OOO.
The grandfather Of the Rothschilds
aid not own penny In 1900.
Troy. n. Y, makes over A,OOO,OOC
worth OF stoves every year.
Il requires twenty hours for ship to
PASS through the Suez canal.
over 30 per cent Of the business Of the
United States is done by checks.
Scientists predict that in a century
there viii be no disease not durable.
A postal card recently received by a
Cincinnati paper contained 3,203 words.
The gross value of British maritime
interests amounts 10 slightly over SlQ,-
)00 000.0 900.
The sea otter Is the most valuable of
all furs, 81 100 having been paid for
single skin.
A camera especially adapted for the
photography of meteors has been in-
vented by Boston artist.
There are about $1,000 persons in this
country out @ the whole number whose
Income annually exceeds $4,000
The total amount OF beer drank in the
world during 1898 is estimated by a
German statistician at i,50O000,0OO gal
Ions.
In the fiscal year 1898 our exports of
raw cotton were 4.iOl,52l bales. or
2,204 lSl,1ll pounds of the value of
slS7.0l2, $50, or SiS cents pound.
The biggest caroad Of shingles ever
shipped east was sent out Of Washing
ton state a few days ago. II contained
10000 shingles, beating the previous
record by 5000.
A "sesmonetoRraph" record at the
College OF Rome shows that the undu-
lations from the great Japanese earth
quake were continued distance OF
about 5000 miles.
Experiments are being made with
compressed hay for paving blocks. The
hay after being pressed. is soaked in
a drying oil. which. 1t is caimed, rem
ders 1t indestructible.
Search lights are such good targets
for the enemy that the Germans are
arranging TO throw the light first on
a mirror, and thence on the enemy,
thereby concealing It's real source.
Paper indestructibe by fire has been
invented by NJ. Meyer, OF Paris A
specimen OF Il was subjected TO a severe
test-l4S hours In a potter's furnace
and came out with its glaze almost
perfect.
rf.ba prugatat ,,n,-erppant apends ovar
$4,000 year In support OF the labora-
tories connected with the medical de-
pertinent Of the University of Berlin,
This is exclusive of the salaries paid TO
professors.
A Manchester (Eng) man carries on
his person a complete pickpocket alarm
system. Removal of his watch, pin or
other iewelry causes the ringing of
the bell. The electric plant weighs
twenty-five ounces.
A lighthouse lens Of the first order is
six feet in diameter, and costs $4,250 10
$S 400: second order, four feet seven
inches. and costs s2,7G0 10 S5,550. and
the third order three feet three inches,
and costs from 81 ,47j 10 $3.50.
The activity in gold mining. which
has been manifest everywhere this
year has extended TO the BLACK HIS
both on old mines and new prospects,
has been done in that region than for
several years past.
IL Is said that a weeks work In Blr-
mlngham, Eng, comprises, among It's
various results. the fabrication OF H.
600 600 pons, 5000 bedsteads, 1000 guns,
800 COO 0Uo cut nails 1O0,000000 buttons,
600 sallles, 100000 copper or bronze
coins 10000 pairs Of spectacles.
More than half the worlds supply Of
lin is mined In the Stats Settlement,
at the tip of the Malay Peninsula. The
output Of 1891 WAS 36,O6l tons out Of 81
total Of 81 .55l TONS l2.l06 tons came
from the Dutch East Indies, chiefly
from the island ~ Banka. leaving only
S,3sl tons for thu rest Of the world.
A prize OF 81 100000 win be given In
1925 to the writer whom the Russian
National Academy shall adjulgc to
have written the best biography Of
Alexander l. The prize is the out
growth Of fund of $4,000 roubles given
By fayorite minister OF Alexander !,
IN 1925. and left 10 accumulate at COM
pound interest for a century.
Hiram s. MaNim's flying machine Is
the strongest moving thing for Its
weight IN existence It's engine ana
boiler together weigh only little over
hye pounds for every horsepower de-
NelOped An ordinary locomotive
weighs over 100 pounds 10 the horse
power "a light yacht engine about the
same bird twenty pounds and a good
draft horsc from 1900 TO 200 pounds.
Between March. 1898, ana October /,
1894. the amount of gold transported be-
tween sub-trcasuries in consequence of
eNpurtntions OF gold. was Sli73ol,d0
The cost of this WAS SS3isO The ug-
grcgHtc shipments are given as follows.
Washington L. New York. $4,000 OOOi
Cincinnati 10 New York, Sll 100000. San
FrRnclsco 10 New York. $500 300. Phil
udplphia to New York }GgyG0,O0O, Phil
ndclphiu 90 Boston, Ej900Op0
Some 200 delegates, representing sev-
cntecn states and territories. Canada
and MeSico, were present at the third
National Irrigation congress at Dem
yer Colorado and California have
more than hHlf the area under Success
ful irrigation, California, lup4233 acres
colorado. $50 733; Montana. 3jD.552
Utah, gG3743; In all 100000 acres undcT
irrigation. which cost over $50 600 900
Value of products on these lands range
from IS 25 per acre. IN Wyoming, tp f1.
ip California. First cost is about Ssl,
prr ncrr: average annunl expenditure
SIp1. ymu. of water rights tbcronffri
SIG per ncro; Increase in value of .rrl-
gltod lnuda. from 5sO0O0.Op0 10 EiJl,-
OuOD0O
NJ Paul Leroy-Beaulieu the French
economist, predicts H great future fOi
tho United States, lie believes that the
new departure IN taHn legislation Is
one of the most important commercial
movements OF the present age. With