Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-27

India and CeylOn have competed SO
successfully with China in the produc-
ton of tea that. whereas in 1880 2,l0O.-
Ge0 hundredweight of the leaf We're ex-
ported from China. only 1851 900 hum
dredweight left the country in 1899.
The one hundredth anniversary of the
founding of Cassel. Germany, will be
celebrated in 1918. and the residents Of
|, the ancient city are already beginning
to plan a fitting holiday time in honor
! : o. the occasion.
| One of the laws of Texas imposes
heavy fine and imprisonment on lawyers
who foment suits against railroads and
other corporations, or who advance
| money to clients to secure such cases.
An immense trade is done in China in
old England horseshoes. which are con-
| sidered the best iron in the world TO-"
making small household articles. such
as bracelets. hooks and bolts.
| Reports from Russia speak of the
| great distress of the peasant population
| Of the Cherson and Bassarabia districts.
| caused by the bad crops and floods sub
| soquent to the severe winter
There are fewer employees in the
pcstoffice departm mt in Washington than
in the more recently established depart
ment Of agriculture and the pay of the
i postal employees is less.
i / The steamer Iceland reported at st.
!, Johns. n. F., that on its trip to the
i north 10000 seals had been taken. The
catch of seals has been this season the
| Greatest ever known.
i Hypnotism is now forbidden art in
II Hungary. The secretary Of the interior
I after consultation with the highest medi-
cal authorities. has issued an ordinance
t, rbidding it's practice unless special
permission. srecifying the purpose, has
been obtained from the sanitary depart
ment.
! A letter has reached Denmark from
DR.. Sven Hedin. the Swedish explorer
Of northern Thibet. dated December 5.
III which he states that he explored some
large lakes the water of which was so
salty that the instruments We're unable
to register the amount of saline.
| According to the Cologne Gazette, the
Baudot multiplex typewriting telegraph
operates so excellently that the whole
telegraph business between Berlin and
Paris, which has heretofore required five
telegraph lines. can now be easily done
over one.
The oceans are being covered with
new enterprises and fresh ventures.
The United States Steamship company
vii, start a new steamship service be-
tweels Copenhagen and the Danish West
Indies w way of Holland, England and
= the United States.
Berlin has an association of physi-
clans who pay sum equal to 5 per cent
of their income tax every year into the
treasury. This yieiSs about $4,000 a
year. which is given II those members
and their families who need help.
Tobacco raising has been prohibited by
law in Egypt since 1890. In fact. there
is nothing Egyptian about Egyptian
/ cigarettes" except that they are made
in Egypt. The tobacco all com&s from
= Turkey the paper from Austria. Ner
many or Italy and most of the labor en-
| p.oyed is Greek.
Africa has an area of practically H.
500 900 square miles. something NOR;
than thrice that of the United States
and its possessions. Twenty years ago
save for strips of territory along tn
coasts. with occasional shallow indenta
tons into the interior. 1t was in fact a
well as in name the dark continent"