The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-20
, vHiRL OF THE WORLD

Houseboating has been an aristocrati,
| English institution for more than hum
died Years. But the idea is older even
! than that. The houseboat in crude forr,
has existed almost as long as civilization
itself. Marco Polo found it in China.
and millions Of the population Of Bur
nah and India are born, live and die IN
floating habitations which closely resem-
BILE the matched huts Of their landsmen
! brothers. The househoat as we see It in
the south coast waters today - the
square cnrnered, slow moving craft
which it must be confessed is not al
ways a thing Of beauty, though undeni-
ably joy forever-frst made its ap-
pearanee in the River Thames. 1t Is
a concomltant part of the social ma
chlnery of Mayfair, as important fac
tor indeed to the pleasure loving Brit,
Usher as is his great house in Portman
square. or his ancestral country seat, or
his hunting lodge in Scotland, or his
yacht off Cowes.
Paris has learned the art of trans
planting large trees successfully, SO that
at the earliest signs of decay street
tree may be removed and the symmetry
of the vista not spoiled by it's successor.
For these trees alone the expe SEES of
Paris amount to about $4,000 a yea
The municipal nurseries include ''h,s-
pital," or cure" for the tired trees
where they are restored if possible to
health and strength in soil that is richer
than the city's. In spring and fall thee
Fltrees, pa stheir way to and from the hos
+ pital are no uncommon feature in the
street scenes of Paris.
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Criminals are very expensive members
of the community. They cost the people
of this country about 81 200, OO0, 900 a year.
If their increase could be prevented it
would be paying investment to give
each Of the 100000 accepted criminals
monthly pension of 5000, on the condition
that they take a life vacation from the
strenuous demands of their profession
But we accept the criminal as a part of
our civilization-or barba rism-and pay
the enormous cost of maint tanning him.
The average annual income of pro. as,
sional criminals is estimated at about
$780, This means that the community
pays them yearly salary of $500, 900, 900.
After this is spent for their maintenance
We pay annually 100000, 900 for their de-
national, state, county and city auspices.
The urban population has to pay the
larger share of this, or 80, OOO, 900 people
in cities have to pay $1O5, Ooo. o0O-$3.5O per
capita. and the suburban population OF
45.000,00O 81 each, or $45, 900, 900. In addi-
ton to this there is federal and state
expense of $5O000,00O. Add to this the
loss by malicious destruction of prop
erty, the money value of human life lost
through crime. the expenditure neces-
sary in the attempt to guard against loss
through laWbreakers, and we find that
81 900, 100000 is not a large estimate.
80
Messages may come through the very
| center of the globe as well as around it.
The earth is never still. Tremors pulsa.
tions, rises and falls Of level are al
ways In progress. After a prolonged in
vestigation Of these phenomena in Japan
Prof. John Milne has established an OBJ
servatOry at Newport, in the Isle Of
Wight. The days of violent movements
| arg over for the present in that charm
| inE region. but the recording instru-
| ments there show constant tremblings.
-Four times on an average every minute
the earth "shivers." Delicate apparatus
for feeling the earths pulse indicate the
feeblest throb or beat.
The first tidings of an earthquake
| shock in Alaska, Mexico Japan or Java
has reached Newport before the news
came by telegraph. A violent outburst
of quivering takes place, for instance, in
Java. Immediately waves of vibration
run through the world and round it's
surface and at a large number of sta
tons where these sensitive instruments
are installed the movement is felt
other things equal. the rapidity of vi
b; alton depends on the rightly of the
medium through which they are trans
mitted. In sand a shock travelled 1926
feet per second: in solid granite, 1865.
Prof. Milne finds that tremors which
have come through the very center of
the earth reach him with such velocity
as to prove that the earth's interior
must be more rigid than a globe of
sc lid iron. So distinct and trustworthy
are the indications that when a subma-
has been able to say that the interrupt
ton was due to seismic disturbance
and point to the very spot where it had
happened.
At. present the cars subjects are d.
vided into four general classes-the no.
btlity, the clergy, the inhabitants of the
st. Petersburg correspondent. The no.
bility is itself of two kinds, heredity and
personal. An officer acquires life no.