The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-07
GOSSIP AND NEWS GRAB-Box.

" tertained just now by a dispute be-
tween the local authorities and
maker of automobiles In the place. The
latter rides a three-wheeled motorcycle for
his business purposes, and the authorities
want to make him pay the wheel tax Just
as though 1t were an ordinary vehicle. The
man objects. and has pointed out that the
tax was made for wheeled vehicles drawn
upon. However. all his arguments failed.
the only answer being: PAY first and
make your claim afterward."
The motor cyclist then insisted upon his
right to pay the debt 'in kind" instead of
cash, or. in other words, work 1t off," The
authorities had to agree to this, and set
him the task Of transporting certain
quantity Of stone from quarry at Noisy
le-Grand to different roads which are un-
der repair.
The man accepted the task and put In an
appearance at the quarry riding his ma
chine. He alighted and began to fill his
pockets with stones. which he was about
to carry of as the first contribution to his
task, but the authorities fail to see the
joke. and object to having the work exc
tend over several years. The man Is OBJ
stinate and claims his right to do the work
in his own way, saying that 1t Is not his
fault that the authorities have imposed an
impossible task. There is deadlock and
next
The French company which holds the
practical monopoly of the Egyptian sugar
and molasses industry has just completed
arrangements by which 1t becomes the con-
5O.o 900 acres of land in the vicinity of its
great works at Nag-Hamadi. in Upper
Egypt These lands will be devoted prin-
cipally to the culture OF beet root. The
company already possesses extensive fields
of canes. Egypt Is now not only able to
cot tor n =
cerned but has begun to compete In the
Levant markets.
The Austrian minister of railways has
ordered an automobile carriage to be of the
dimensions of an ordinary third-class
European railway carriage with thirty-two
seats and standing room Under the floor
ing will be placed thirty-horse power
four-cylinder motor. with the mechanism
and supplies necessary to enable the car
riage to travel independently at speed of
| thirty miles an hour. Controlling levers
will be placed at both ends of the carriage
on platforms incloSed with windows, and
will enable the carriage to move In either
direction. The car necessitates the serv-
| ices of only one man, and will probably be
| put into use during the coming autumn on
! the Southwestern line. in lower Austria.
| Such a vehicle will permit exceedingly
| economical traffic on local lines in thinly
populated districts. and consequently more
! frequent trains and better connections with
I main lines.
| The servant of a Vienna jeweler has re-
\ Gently made an extraordinary discovery.
/ According to him he picked up in the
| street some years ago a small round knob.
| apparently broken off from some article of
/ furniture. He threw it into an open drawer
at home, where it remained. In turning
this knob short time ago around between
his fingers he found that it moved. and.
/ having unscrewed 1t. he discovered within
the receptacle more than 100 small BRILL
iants rolled up in paper. The last great
! jewel robbery In Vienna was in 1885. and
/ five years later the jeweled staff of Mar
shall Radetsky was stolen from the arsenal
if no one puts in a claim the brilliants will
! probably fall to the servant.
|
There is some talk of establishing a
women's college of matrimony. to be To-
| Gated in Chelsea. England, where the du-
ties of wife will become the subject of a
two years course of study. The currl-
culum will embrace not only the usual
branches of housewifery, such as cooking
serving, and laundry work, but is intended
to deal with physiology and medicine a;
well, so that the students will receive men
tai discipline in connection with the man
ual training