The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-11
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The average longevity in the United
States was 35.2 In 1900.
The number OF sheep In Australia to.
day Is given as about S7,OO),O COG.
Polo is probably the oldest OF ath,
letic sports. 1t has been traced to GOO
B. G.
The electrical power transmitted 200
miles from Yuba. Cal, has proved per-
feetly reliable.
The new ameer Of Afghanistan has
declared against the admission of mis-.
%sionaries to his country.
Halifax policemen have each been
provided with a packet of salt with
which to sprinkle ice slides.
Nearly $4,OOO,0OO was contributed by
states and territories for special ex-
hibits at the Chicago Worlds fair.
Frozen turkeys, geese, ducks and.
fowls are being sent in increasing
quantities to Londonsfrom Victoria.
A Danish military commission has
arrived in London to study the organi-
zation work Of British military bands.
The English soldiers pay is $3.50 a
month. The soldier Of no other country
except the United States gets so much.
The dedication and conservation of
the new Roman Catholic cathedral st
Westminster will take place in corona
ton week.
In London there are six Paradise
streets, ten New streets, eleven Duke
streets, twelve Church streets and
twenty-three High streets.
The total exports of animals and
thei products during last year We're in
value $3.50, 100000, not including the
mules sent to South Africa.
DR.. Paul GARNER, the French sta.
tistician, says Juvenile criminality il
relatively increasing, and he attributes
the evil to alcoholic heredity.
A factory in Magdeburg for making
fodder for cattle by drying the leaves
heretofore wasted by beet sugar max.
ers has proved a financial success.
At Marburg Professor Ostmann ex.
amined 1857 school children and found
that 28.4 per cent had a defective sense
Of hearing-the boys 30 per cent and
the girls 26.S.
Italian statistics show that the emf.
grafton to America has reached the
figure Of 100000 annually. About half
OF these return eventually to Italy, the
rest remaining in the United States.
An experiment in marketing Jersey
sweet potatoes in London is made by a
New Jersey grower, who has shipped
three lots. u in sawdust, one in fancy
wrappers and one loose in the ba rrels.
The number Of persons to the section
of land is: In Great Britain, 342; ia.
pan. 300; Italy, 276; Germany, go;
Austria, 225; France, 1877; Hungary,
154; Spain, 90; United States, %; Rus.
sia, Is.
Three local papers have been perma.
nently suspended by the Russian au.
thorities in Finland, while the publica.
ton of seven other journals has been
stopped for periods varying from, three
to five months.
The Chinese loan was covered TWEEN.
ty-four times oyer in France. The town
Of Paris furnished 1856, 663, 100 francs
and the country districts 19G, 565, 1857
francs. The finance ministry will re-
turn SO per cent of the sums paid by
the investors.
The center of criminal population in
New York-the police precinct yielding
the largest number of arrests varies
year. 1t has followed the line OF
Broadway, steadily moving up town.,
since the time when the Sixth ward
was by common consent the wickedest
precinct in town.
The speediest long distance delivery
of mail ever accomplished in the world
was that Of the consignment which left
Sydney, Australia, Oct. Is, for London
by the American route. A distance OF
1926 miles was covered in %thirty-one
days. a saving of four days over the
Suez canal route.
The great soap factories Of France,
the largest being at Marseilles, have
forced to seek cheaper vegetable
oil than that from the cotton seed, be-
cause the demand for cotton oil by re-
fners who make it a foOdstuf has adj
vanced it's price to a point at which it
cannot proftahly be made into soap.
Most Of the clerks of ]. p. Morgan &
are compelled to work after closing
hours when big reorganizations, mer-
gers or combinations are on the forge
in the Morgan shop. Every man who
works after hours gets supper money"
to buy his dinner If he gets home too
late for it. Supper money is a dollar a
to all alike.
1t appears that between Nov. /, 1900, /
and Sept. so. 1901, the Sevres manu-
delivered 11,O45 pieces Of por-
celain Of a total value Of f333 4 The
number Of niocna sold tn tho nuhlic Voc