The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-22
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n to every $4,000 inhabitants.
Among the thousands of bodies bur-
led in the potter's field of New York
there Is not n of a Chinaman.
A California paper says that the men
who live on the ranges are notable. for
their remarkably retentive memories.
1t has been suggested lately that the
wireless telegraph might find a useful
application in the fire alarm signaling.
The British claim to control the gold
fish market of the world. The fish are
getting scarce and the price has dou-
bled.
The next census round up will find
100000, 900 in the United States. So
says the superintendent of the census
bureau.
The scheme to divide Texas has been
revived. If it should ever come to any
thing, Ell Paso would be made the cap
ital of the new state.
A wide awake American has erected
steam pumps on the Jordan and is sup
plying churches all over Europe with
genuine Jordan water.
The salmon output in the northwest
exceeds that of all former years. "Not
wanting any more" was the only limit
to the catch this season.
Anticosti island, in the gulf of st.
Lawrence. though owned by a French
man is under the British flag and sub
ject to the Canadian laws.
The diamond tooth craze seems to be
increasing, and a New York dentist de-
clares he simply piled up orders dur
ing his stay in the French capital.
A conduit line to cost $50O,O 600 is pro-
jected in Folkestone, Kent, England,
in down town sections, with an over.
head trolley system in the suburbs.
An eminent Italian doctor has been
experimenting with the inhalation of
petroleum fumes in cases of whooping
cough and has obtained good results.
Houses which are damp because of
proximity to undrained land nay be
rendered more habitable by planting
the laurel and the sunfower near them.
A report from Monterey. Mexico. de-
clares that the miners in Mexico sub
stantiate the claim that the Chinese
discovered this continent long before
the days of Columbus.
An improved mail service has been
installed in Frankfort, Germany, the
tramwaXcompany having recently add
ed seven automobile cars and seven
trailer cars to the street railway mail
service.
A hotel landlord in st. Louis has es-
tablished curfew regulations In his
house. Promptly at 10 o'clock, at night
the curfew rings. and guests at that
time are expected to turn out the lights
and go to bed.
In New Zealand there exists a brass
band whose members are wholly
mounted on bicycles. This band. which
is located at C~hristchurch. consists Of
ten players, and these not merely ride
their bicycles to practice, but fulfill
their engagements on the wheel.
The Cunard company has decided on
building several steamships which will
be expected to wrest from German
built vessels the speed championship
now held by the latter. Other English
lines will probably follow suit in the
attempt to Guido the Deutschland.
The London Daily Mail says that the
days of the banjo are numbered in
England and that that instrument will
soon be included in the same category
with the mouth organ and the accor-
dion. The either will probably be the
favorite instrument the coming sea
son..
The Boston park board has extended
the time within which horseless car
riages can be driven in the park sys.
TEN. Automobiles can now be run
from $50 until 1870 in the evening.
The vehicles must not travel al a
higher speed than ten miles an hour
in the park.
Professor Levin Of Berlin has found
among 300 laborers. who constantly
handle copper eight men whose hair
had in consequence obtained a green.
ish tinge. which nc washing would re-
move. The phenomenon has been
known, be says, $50 years, but it takes
several years to produce 1t.
Half size pianos are being made in
Germany for the use Of children who
are learning to play. Doctors declare
that much permanent injury is done to
the muscles of the fingers by endeavor-
ing to stretch an octave or more. so the
new pianos are made with keys half
the usual width in order to prevent
such injury.
Photographing objects solely by the
light from the planet Venus has been
successfully accomplished. The ex-
periments were conducted within the
dome of the Smith observatory at &c
neva. N. Y. so that all outside light
was excluded except that which came
from Venus through the open shutter
of the dome.
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