The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-11-29
FACTS IN FEW LINES

AAaASos WtulS LOU acres OF st. LOut
It fair space s.r an alfalfa exhibit.
o An American desk factory Is abou
n to commence operations in London.
Steam dTedges costing $25O,OOO ar,
being introduced in Alaskan gold re
gions.
Vast forests Of rich yellow and sug
q ar pine are being opened up in eastern
: Washington.
The first fire engine used in thi,
: country was brought from England tt
: New York In 1871.
To commend anarchist crime in q
" public place is a punishable offense
according to French law.
z The New Zealand government is
raising the wages of it's railway em.
ployees to the extent of $4,000
J, The Belgian government is drawing
up a bill providing for the total sun.
PRESTON of Sunday newspapers.
The assessed valuation of the state
of Idaho has increased $4,649, $50 in a
single year, and the total now is
$50, 195 ,4s6.
The government agricultural experts
are hard at work trying to evolve an
orange tree that will prosper under
cold weather.
The ink Of the Greeks and Romans
was merely lampblack mingled with
gum IN the proportion Of three parts of
the former to n Of the latter.
Dundee, Scotland, has started an
electric street sweeper and watering
machine. 1t is worked by a trolley
arm which runs on the tramway wire.
Coffee merchants figure out a worlds
supply of coffee this year of "a, 100000
bags, with a demand for only 10000
ooO bags and they do not know what
to do.
Sweden spends $15, 10000 a year in
coal and has 100000 to 100000 cleo
trical horsepower going to waste. The
government is thinking about utilizing
some Of it.
California's state flower is the golden
poppy, and one of the professors at
Stanford university has published a
book devoted exclusively to the flower
and its legendary history.
The skin Of the musk OK, which is a
denizen of the Barren Grounds" and
the arctic region of Canada, has taken
the place of that of the extinct buff
falo for sleigh robes. 1t varies in price
from $50 to as low as SIS for a poor ar
ticle.
The industrial depression in Germany
is reaching serious proportions. EN-
ployment agencies are deluged with ap-
plicants. From the mining regions
come reports of numerous dismissals
and reduced work. The same is true
in iron and steel work.
Gigantic water power developments
are projected in the Alps. There are
now in the French Alps forty-eight fac
tories supplied by 100000 horsepower,
electrically generated. Engineers esti-
mate that 100000 horsepower is now
running to waste in the Alps.
The royal library at Windsor castle
Is about to be enlarged by the inclusion
OF a room adjoining hitherto used by
the lord in waiting. This will enable
many thousands more volumes to be
added to the hundred thousand valu-
abfe works now on the shelves.
So great has become the demand for
American coal in Europe that it has
been decided to build an immense re-
ceiving station for unloading, screening
and grading coal in northern France.
Rates have been made on French roads
which will drive German coal out of
central Europe.
DR.. Bizarre Of Corr has published a
pamphlet in which he tries to prove
that the Adriatic has for more than a
years been rising and en-
croaching on it's shores. The lowest
parts of Triest are experiencing trou-
bic already, and in course of time Ven
Ice will be buried In the mud of the la
COON.
1t is reported from the City Of Mex
leo that Senior Sabine Osuna has in
vented an ingenious and yet seemingly
very simple affair styled the "Contador
Rapido Siglo Xxx" twentieth century
rapid calculator). The apparatus, which
resembles the ancient Chinese counting
machine, is for the purpose of rapid
computation.
New York state has more cows than
Pennsylvania and New Jersey COM
bined and more than any other one
state in the Union Iowa being second,
Illinois third and Wisconsin fourth.
The entire number of cows in the states
and territories in the exact census fig
lres is 16,292,3 $50, with a total valua-
ton of $514, 812, LOG.
The beaver, the staple fur of the
regime, Is now becoming scarce
it's price varies greatly according
% fashion. Even the skin of the in
offensive rabbit has now q positive
market value, as 1t is dressed, clipped
dyed a deep brown, almost black, F..
then becomes what is called "elec-
SEAL" much in vogue for ladies'
The trees now growing on the farm