The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-21
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AAAD HASA
LOG, 500 Germans.
A Berliner takes on the average 129
street, car rides a year.
Connecticut has seven eX-gOvernOrs
living. Massachusetts has but three.
The house of lords contains 500
peers, of whom twenty-five are dukes.
Factory girls in Leeds, England, go
to work ~fashionably attired, numbers
of them on cycles.
The present population of Greater
Berlin exceeds 2,55O,OOO, just 100000
more thar Munich.
London had 93.5 per cent of all the
cases Of CHAMBERS which occurred
among horses last year in England.
To facilitate the calling up of We
hicles telephones are to be erected on
or near all the cab ranks in Berlin.
Named in order of market sales. fish
captured by New England fishermen
are cod, haddock, bake, pollock, hall
but and mackerel.
Over $5OO,O 600 is to be spent on n.y.
draulic mountings for the barbette
guns of the battleship King Edward
VII, now building at Davenport.
In Galicia the wage of the farm la
borer has been so reduced that he is
starving to death on a pittance of
from 3 to 16 cents a day.
The camping grounds for civic and
military organizations at the worlds
| fair have been laid out to accommo-
date 10000 to 10000 men.
Among 100000 laborers in Belgium
there are $1,000 men, $4,000 women
and $4,000 children under sixteen who
work more than eleven hours a day.
That natural sleep is due to the drug
ging effect of accumulated carbonic
acid in the body is the view taken by
a French psychologist. DR.. Raphael
Dubois.
France will probably be forced to
import wheat on a larger scale than
heretofore. The home crop of that
cereal for 1902 will be little short Of
an absolute failure.
Part of the Sans Souci property,
where Robert Louis Stevenson lived in
Hawaii, has been purchased by the
Commercial Pacific Gable company
for a landing station for the projected
cable.
South Carolina clubwomen, through
their state federation, have awarded
sixteen scholarships in various educa-
tional institutions of their state, rang
ing from kindergarten training schools
to colleges.
Proof of the great grain producing
capabilities of the Zoutpansberg is af-
forded by the fact that 10000 bags Of
mealies have been sem since October
last to the military authorities in Pre-
toria and johannesburg.
By presidential decree promulgated
on July % the government of Indo-
China is authorized to realize by, means
Of a loan the sum of $13,51O,OO0 for
the purpose of constructing railroads
in the French colony named.
A scheme for the manufacture of pa
per buttons is being put forward in
: San Francisco. These buttons, say the
, promoters Of the scheme. will be
cheaper than the BON and metal ones,
quite as serviceable and of as good an
appearance.
Recent tests made by the Iowa ex.
pertinent station IN the value of condi.
mental foods in the fattening Of stock
are adverse to the use of such foods
Some brands of prepared food special
ly rich in protein and free from dope
p were fed to advantage. however.
S james B. Duke, president Of the to
bacco trust. is erecting at Haritan, N
j., what he expects to be the finest
public drinking fountain in America
1t will cost $4,000. and attached
) thereto will be a bronze statue fol
which Mr.. Duke paid $4,000 in Italy
q At Craig-y-Ncs Nine. Patti POSSESSES
e the largest piano as well as the mos
expensive orchestrion in the world
The latter wonderful instrument i
equal to the combined efforts of sixt,
performers. 1t cost $15.960 and has
repertory Of over eighty operate selec
lions and airs.
The centennial anniversary of Loui
Kossuth's birth will be celebrated il
Hungary on Dec. II next. The mu
nicipality of Budapest is making prep
~ arations for a solemn celebration. i'll
o. Guiding "a procession to Kossuth'
grave. where the foundation stone 0
le a mausoleum will be lad.
r. On board the Japanese ship Asama
+. now in British waters. there is Il gal
~ den plot of exquisite giant, chrysar
:, themums and iris in pots, which hav
~ been made out of paper by the stokers
IL Nothing could be more admirably maj
1t ural or beautiful in variety of colo
h. than the flowers of this sea garden.
er Until recent years mackerel wer
taken at sea only with hooks. There
at no more stirring picture of the sc
=, than that Of an old time macker'
" fleet in the midst of a school, with til
81 men at the rails snatching the fs