The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-11-27
FACTS IN a FEW LINES.

During 1899 Spain bought 67 vessels
IN England.
New Zealand is practically free from
the plague of tralnps.
-Four thousand tourists arrived in
Egypt during the last
Socialists in Paris have organized a
bureau to sSread their doctrines.
Lanarksh:re claims to have given
more judges and titles for judges to
the supreme court than any other coun-
ty in Scotland.
Until the boundaries of the United
States are changed the geographical
center will remain In northwestern
Kansas. hear Hill City.
England nc longer furnishes the lar
gest contingent Of tourists in Switzer-
land. The Germans and French both
surpass the English in numbers.
Private roof gardens are such a sue
cess in New York that the large board
Ing houses find it necessary to adopt
them as a regular summer feature.
Female BARRIERS are quite numerous
in Austria, but r required by the
BARRIERS and Wigmakers' union of VI
ems to pass an examination before
going into business. -
The public library of Chicago has
100000 volumes. The number of books
circulated during the year ended May
81. 1900, was Lao, 775. The library
has GO branch stations.
In the rubber forests of Para n
laborer disposes of 100 trees in seven
months. securing from 400 to 600 kilo-
grams of rubber. Of which he gets
half from his employer.
The population Of the Berlin suburb
Charlottenburg is in a c%uriously unsta-
BILE condition. Last year Al. 71S of the
population of 174.55O left the city and
SO. IA from elsewhere took their place.
Nearly 500 emigrants a day are be-
ing shipped by agents of the govern
ment of Queensland from England to
Australia. For every adult shipped an
agent gets $3.50. and for every child he
is paid $1.25.
In England during the past few years,
it is claimed. 100000 farm laborers
have been displaced by machinery.
while the making of the latter. it is as
serted. required only the labor Of 4.6OO
men for one year.
In the New York Central service 20
years ago the aggregate proportion of
men discharged for drunkenness was
20 per cent. but now with 10000 men
in the employ of the company less than
I per cent are dropped from the rolls
for that cause.
1t has just been discovered that horse
chestnut shells can be made into good
pipes. They can at least contend in
point of sweetness and purity with
some of the cheap alleged brier wood
pipes the human family is struggling
with every day in the year.
The town council of Bayamon. Porto
Rico, has donated to the Christian Wo-
mans board of missions the use of the
old municipal building for orphanage
purposes. In accepting the property
the board agrees to maintain % or
phans and to assume entire control Of
them.
An automobile accident insurance as
ISOLATION is about to be formed in New
York city. Its objects will be to insure
its policy holders against accidents and
to defend the innumerable lawsuits
have been brought against mo-
torists all ove the country. often on
very slight ~provocation.
The present coinage Of Spain is un-
der the reform law Of 1868. which took
effect the 31st Of December. 1870. The
law of 1868 created the monetary unit
a peseta 1913 cents in place of the
old unit Of q real about 5 cents) and
made weights and tineness of gold and
silver to conform with those of the
Latin union.
The pressure Of trade competition
the last decade has prompted
Great Britain to utilize an extraordi- |
nary method of impressing foreign
with their superiority. The
new scheme is to scatter broadcast
the commercial world British ex
perts In the matters of trade to lecture
IN British manufactures in every i'm
commercial center Of the globe.
Some wrought iron Orders in a build
ng in Chicago had to be cut during
to make room for a steel col
INN. and it was decided to use cleo
richly instead of the old method of
The Orders to be cut were
Tx in number and IA inches deep, with
! one inch web. To accomplish the
work it was necessary to melt about
'25 holes in the Orders, and the actual
ime spent in cutting all was 3h hours.
Pneumatic tubes for carrying mes
ages are an old story in the largest
European cities. But the largest in
Use there. those in London, are only
hree inches in diameter. It is only in
he United States that the whole bulk
# letter mail is handled between CIV
n points. In New York a tube reach
ng to Brooklyn is 3za miles long and