The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-25
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introduced In Australia,
In the government forest reserve,
there are as, IT. 1000 acres.
Last year Germany imported 214. 13.
metric tons of potatoes and 1,37O,85O Q;
wheat. j, Etym. .g4ss8 a4EyfS
Moy Ing, a nabob of Chinatown, Chi
cago. has given six elaborate feasts II
honor of his wedding.
A rubber tree four feet in diamete,
yields 20 gallons of sap. making AZ
pounds Of dried rubber n l |. aaS sMs VI
"A nursery near Mexico. MO, contains
250,O0 young fruit trees. pruned and
cultivated to perfection.
The high price of coal has SO raised
the price of paper that the printers, and
editors Of Prussia assembled in con
gress have resolved to increase the
prices of their newspapers.
The Cunard company has received
the thanks Of the British admiralty for
the invaluable assistance rendered dur.
ing the fitting out of transports and
the embarkation of troops at Liverpool.
DuEing the Fretss military maneu-
vers numbers of men deserted and
crossed the border into Italy. On one
day eight men from the same regiment
deserted, preferring exile for several
years to the prospect of completing
their military service.
The town Of Palma. near Mount We
suvius, Italy, has just witnessed the
trial of $40 criminals belonging to an
association for theft and assassination.
AS 1,40O witnesses had to be called the
court adjourned for the sake Of room,
to the municipal theater.
A new silver medal Is to be issued to
all ranks Of all the British service ac-
lively employed during the operations
in South Africa. The medal will be at
tached to a ribbon with an orange cen
ter, having narrow navy blue stripes
on each side slightly wider. and deep
outside stripes Of red.
One of the Vatican organs suggests
that the pope should migrate from
Rome to Jerusalem and out of the Sd
OOO,O 900 saved by successive popes
should buy from the sultan of Turkey
such a large extent OF territory as
would insure the recognition Of the
papacy as a temporal power.
A cube Of red sandstone two feet
square. suitably inscribed. has been
erected in the old cemetery at Deer
field. Mass. 1t will mark for the first
time in an appropriate way the grave
where 4S men. women and children
were buried after the massacre in 17O4
by the French and Indians.
Originally a creole was a native Of
Spanish-America of Spanish parentage.
and later the name was applied to any
native of European %parentage as dis
from aborigines. negroes or
persons Of mixed blood. In Louisiana
a creole is a native descended from
French or Spanish ancestors. @
The remains of an ancient galley
been found six feet below the sur
face at Tottanham marshes during the
excavations tor the new reservoirs Of
the East London Water company. 1t Is
supposed to have belonged to the
Danes. who were defeated IN Lea val
ley by King Alfred in 1914 A. D..
Facilities are rapidly being provided
BY the New Zealand education depart
ment for the training Of Maori chill
1ren. There are now 81 Maori schools
n the colony, and a number of scholar
ships are provided for Maori children
% enable them to proceed to the higher
or to undergo a course Of tech
1ical training.
Hot water is very difficult to obtain
q Cuba. Water is heated in small YES
sells. and a surprisingly meager amount
seems to be needed in the days work.
Cuban cooks have developed the sys-
EN- of washing dishes in cold water to
IN art, but American servants find it
lificult to get accustomed to this hot
water scarcity.
Omaha capitalists propose to tunnel
he great continental divide. 80 miles
vest of Denver and II miles south of
Georgetown, and operate an electric
Dad through it. 1t will start at the
'ase. about II miles from Grant, and
erminate at the headwaters Of the
river and will be 1000 feet long
nd LOO feet deep.
A new telephone fire alarm system
as just been patented, the whole sys-
EN- being operated by a magnetic cur
ent and dry batteries. After the sys-
EN- is once installed the only thing to
ct out Of order Is the burning out oc-
asionally of a fuse. which may be
uickly repaired. A separate wire 10
sed for each fire district, and any
lumber OF telephones may be connect
d with any district wire.
For a great many years scientists
enied to the sponge the honor Of be-
lg classed among those things in na-
Ire which possess animal life, but
ow the sponges have been placed
bove the protocol in a subkingdom Of
1eir own. with the individual scientific
ognomen Of Porifera, probably on &C.
punt of the muItitu6o of noroa Other