The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-31
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who spoke. German as a mother .orgue
Twelve thousand emigrants from the
British islands and over 1900 from
the Units! States went into Canada
last year.
Cotton growers have netted $500,
100000 more for the past five crops
Q9O1 crop estimated) than for the
previous five.
Queensland, in Australia. grows
great quantities of sugar cane and has
thousands of acres yielding grapes,
bananas and oranges.
The falls of Glomen, Norway, are to
be utilized for the operation Of an cleo
trical generating plant almost as large
as the one at Niagara.
In Chicago boilers of steam motor
carriages have to be inspected by the
boiler inspection department of the
city the same as any other boiler.
No fewer than 4,OoO\ Paris landlords
have refused to provide a proper drain
age system in their houses in accord
ance with the new sanitary regula-
lions.
One out of every forty-nine deaths
in Minnesota is due to accident or
negligence, according to the report of
vital statistics for 1894 to 1897, in.
elusive.
One hundred thousand bales of cot
ton lasted the Lancashire mills for a
year in 1900. Now the same amount
would feed their spindles for a day
and a quarter.
The lighthouse at Cape Kaliakra, on
the European coast of the Black sea,
was destroyed by the earthquake on
March 81. Steps have been taken for
d provision of a temporary light.
A doctor has written to the London
Times suggesting the running Of motor
cars at a speed fully up to the legal
limit as a means of administering the
open air treatment to consumptives.
All southern California cities look
forward to be supplied with electric
power from Kern river, where at first
$4,000 and later $4,000 horsepower will
be obtained from an eight hundred foot
fall.
A large number of cuttlefish have
recently been caught off the north
coast of Germany. AS they have never
before been met with in these waters,
it is difficult to account for their pres
ence.
The number of male physicians in
Russia is IA, 7S4. That Of female ply
sicians is 624, but it will soon be
larger, as there were last year S69 fe-
male students in the Medical Institute
For Women.
Since Alaska became the property of
the United States the value Of the
product Of her fisheries has been over
S7O,OO0,0 900, of her furs 1874, 600, 900
and the yield of her gold mines APP
proximately $4O,O 1000.
So little confidence is there in Turk
ish postofice employees that when
some time ago opportunity was given
to send packages and registered let
tiers only II of each was received at
STEAMBOAT in ten days.
So valuable is coal in the Ponchamp
coaltields of France that it pays to
mine coal at a depth of 1913 feet. A
steel cable weighing seven tons and
nearly a mile long is used. The coal is
brought up in trains Of six cars.
Ireland continues to far outdistance
all other European countries in crime
%lessness. Official statistics for the last
year, just published, show a decrease
Of 1912 per cent in minor offenses as
compared with the preceding year.
Professor Gerhardt of Vienna direct
ed attention in a recent lecture to the
fact that within the last twenty years
mortality has decreased from thirty
two to Twenty-Five a thousand in Aus
tria and from twenty-one to eighteen
In England.
st. Frideswide's church, Poplar, has
been enriched by an interesting gift
which is probably unique in England.
is an altar cloth valued at more than
10000 which. like Penelope's web,
has taken ten years to manufacture
and is partly woven of human hair.
American manufacturers seeking
markets will not succeed, says a
writer, unless they make their pack
ages small enough for carriage on a
mules back and wrap their wares in
ed paper instead of brown. The hea-
hen purchaser prefers red. 1t is luck
er.
Robinson Crusoe's island, as Juan
is generally known to
American and English readers because
# the Identification of Alexander Sell
Iirk with the hero of De Foes tale, is
low almost as devoid of inhabitants as
It the time when the famous mariner
vas shipwrecked on it's shores.
The enumeration Of 1900 shows that
are more men and boys than wo-
men and girls in this country and that
he difference exceeds 10000 O in a
population Of 7e,3O3.3S7. The excess
more distinctly perhaps when
t is said that there are 512 males and
'nly 4SS females in every thousand
in the United States.