The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-12
FACTS IN FEW LINES


There are in use in the world at pres
5000 tons of gold and 10000 tons
of silver.
Liverpool has a gasometer which is
the largest ig England. It has 100000
cubic feet.
Including the Oceanic, there are now
feet of over $4,000 tons.
Maitland, Nova Scotia, was a wooden
shipbuilding center many years ago,
and 1t Is said that the industry is to be
revived again.
It is believed that the figures Of the
recent English census will prove more
reliable than any similar returns pre-
viously made.
The $12O,OOO,OOO OF iron and steel
products exported last year exceeds the
total OF American manufacture export
ed 20 yeas ago.
A memorial brass has been placed in
st. Patrick's cathedral, Dublin, in men,
DRY Of DR.. Charles Inglis, bishop of
Nova Scotia In 1851.
School children are to be carried to
school at public expense by the Dor
chester (Md.) county school board in
sparsely settled districts.
Italy and Spain have fewer houses
In proportion to their population than
any other country in the world. The
Argentine Republic and Uruguay have
most.
London as o seaport compares SO
badly with. Antwerp, Hamburg and
Rotterdam that proposals are made for
deepening the river to 80 feet at a cost
Of f1,649. 1893.
The imperial government of Austria
has lately placed women on exactly
the same footing as men in regard to
the practice of medicine and the con-
Quoting Of chemists shops.
The coke oven industry, unknown in
1860, turned out a product in the Unit
ed States last year valued at $$334, esq.,.
41S, an Increase since 1880 of 10 per
cent. The byproducts added nearly
$1,OOO,OOO more.
The four great Scottish universities
are in a very bad way financially. All
Of them are appealing for funds, and it
Is said that a sum Of at least $1O.OOO.-
600 is needed to bring them up to the
level of modern requirements.
An immense region in northern Onta-
rio, covering 15,6sO,OOO acres and
stretching from Quebec westward to
Thunder bay, on the north shore of
Lake Superior, Is nov recognized as
being well adapted for farming.
A great falling off is noted in the
British tin plate trade. At the end Of
March 293 mills were running as
against 418 mills a year ago. and the
number Of workmen was 14,GOO In
stead Of the 21.OOO in March, 1900.
Mantua after nearly 20 centuries has
Virgil and set to work to erect a monu-
ment to Its great poet. The sum Of
$4,000 has been raised, and artists are
called on tOssend In plans In competi-
ton.
Experiments made at Kasan, in Rus
STA. Of the petroleum found in Siberia
prove that 1t Is almost Identical with
Pennsylvania naphtha. The wells on
the lake Of Baikal are said to be rich
and reliable SO far as the borings go
down.
Owing to the process of manufacture
Canadian maple sugar is harder and Of
q stronger favor than that made in the
United States. The Canadian output is
largely shipped to this country and
commands a higher price because of a
duty of 4 cents q pound.
A number Of young ilbert trees have
been sent to the agricultural depart
ment from Greece. The nuts from
these trees are the largest and have the
finest flavor of any filberts the depart
ment has-yet discovered, and every ef-
fort is to be made to encourage their
growing.
Schools for the study Of textiles are
common in Germany, especially in Sax
ony. but not so common in Great Brit
ain as to escape remark. AT Aberyst-
Myth college. in Wales. the local au-
thorities are about to aid In founding a
school inewhich textile design. weaving
and dyeing will be taught.
Africa has an area of practically H.
100000 square miles, something more
than thrice that Of the United States
and its possessions. Twenty years ago..
save for strips Of territory along the
coasts. with occasional shallow inden-
tations into the interior, 1t was in fact
as well as In name the dark conti-
nent."
The government Of Prussia Is in ia
o Of establishing public libraries.
For cities permanent libraries and pub
lie reading rooms will be maintained,
while for the rural districts movable
libraries are recommended. Many dis
tricts have already voted adequate ap-
preparations. The government will also
give financial aid.