The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-28
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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ried seven times.
Australia finds homes for more than
1O6,5OO Germans.
A Berliner takes on the average 100
street car rides a year.
Connecticut has seven e~x-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
nor than 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, paddock. bake, pollock, hall
but and mackerel.
Over 100000 is to be spent on hy-
draulic mountings for the barbette
guns Of the battleship King Edward
VII, now building at Devonport.
In Galicia the wage of the farm la
borer has beer so reduced that he is
starving to death on a p%ittance of
from 3 to Is cents a day.
The camping grounds for civic and
military organizations at the worlds
fair have been laid out to
date 10000 to 10000 men.
Among 100000 laborers in Belgium
there are $1,000 men, 25,OOO ONE
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 sent since October
last to the military authorities in Pre-
toria and Johannesburg.
BY presidential decree promulgated
on July 25 the government of Indo-
China is authorized to realize by means
of a loan the Jul of $%13,51O,OOO for
the purpose of constructing railroads
in the French colony named. '~E
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 bone and metal Ones,
quite as serviceable and of as good an
appearance.
Recent tests made by the Iowa ex-
pertinent station on 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
were fed to advantage, however.
James B. Duke, president of the to-
bacco trust, is erecting at Raritan, N.
j., what he expects to be the finest
public drinking fountain in America.
1t will cost $50. 600, and attached
thereto will be Il bronze statue for
which MI. Duke paid $4,000 in Italy.
At Craig-y-Nos Nine. Patti possesses
the largest piano as well as the most
expensive orchestrion in the world.
The latter wonderful instrument is
equal to the combined efforts of sixty
performers. 1t cost $4,000 and has a
repertory Of over eighty operate selec-
tons and airs.
The centennial anniversary Of Louis
|, Kossuth's birth will be celebrated in
Hungary on Dec. II next. The mu-
nicipality of Budapest is making prep
arations for Il solemn celebration, in
Guiding a procession to kossuth's
grave. where the foundation stone Of
a mausoleuln will be laid.
On board the Japanese ship Asama,
now in British waters, there is a gar
den plot of exquisite giant chrysan-
themums and iris in pots, which have
been made out of paper by the stokers.
Nothing could be more admirably nat
ural or beautiful in variety of color
than the flowers of this sea garden.
Until recent years mackerel were
taken at sea only with hooks. There is
no more stirring picture of the sea
than that Of an old time mackerel
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