The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-06-20
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In the country was in 1900 $21.77. .
The electrical street railway system
Of Vienna, Austria, has been taken over
by the city.
Among the articles made in Philip
pine rriIons are tables inlaid with {
pearl and oyster shells.
England Is going to coin two pound
pieces in gold. They will be about the
size Of our ten dollar coins.
The birch grows farther north than
any other tree. Next comes the Slberi-
an larch and then the fir.
Nebraska was one of the first states
to recognize the Importance Of keeping
reliable records of the flow OF Its
streams.
If great cold turned u atmosphere
to LIQUID air, it would make a sea thlr-
ty-fye feet deep owe the surface OF
the whole globe.
The mean annual temperature in the
shade of the City Of Mexico for the Pc
Rod of twenty-five years past has been
1919 degrees +.
DR.. Hayes measured an iceberg IN
Melville bay which was nearly a mile
long and 315 feet above water. 1t was
estimated to weigh 1000, 100000 tons.
A live whale sixty-six feet long has
been driven ashore at Juan les Pins,
near Antilles, an unprecedented occur
renee on that part of the Mediterrane-
an coast.
An enormous rat has just been cap
tured at Bi%llingborough, England. IT
turned the scale at n n a halr
pounds and measured twenty inches
from the tip of its nose to the end OF
it's tail.
The board of the Metropolitan Rail,
way company. London. has let a con-
tract for their electrical power station
at Neasden to the British Westlng-
house Electrical and Manufacturing
company, limited.
The area planted with wheat in Ben
gal this year is estimated at only l,4O4,-
700 acres. IA total considerably below
the normal area. 1t is explained tina
the falling off is due to the want OF
rain at sowing time.
J The Russian ambassador at Constan'
y tinople has scored a great success py
obtaining an trade from the sultan au
e thorizing eighty-three Russian schools
e in Palestine which had hitherto exist
ed without permission.
e Since the first outbreak of the plagu'
, in Sydney two years g MELBOURNE
- has only had ten cases and two death
- from the disease. the last death occur
Is ring in June, 1900. LII that year ther
N were BOB cases and 1O1 deaths at Syd
ney.
- At Newcastle England, assizes Jul
tice Ridley imposed a fine OF $40 on tn
- court attendant for failure to have tn
courtroom sufficiently lighted. A threa
- Of the same kind by Justice Lawrenc
at Leeds assizes led to prompt illum
m nation.
IT The raising of the instrument shelt'
1T Of the weather bureau in New No
nd city from an elevation of l5O re-
he above the street to an elevation OF -
II feet has caused an apparent loWell1
he ofsthe mean annual temperature OF 2
Of degrees.
nd 1t is not generally known that. ST
err for size, a thread Of spider silk is d
OF. cidedly tougher than a bar of steel. !
he ordinary thread will bear a weight
,at three grains. This is just about 81 p
cent stronger thar a steel thread Of t
DIV same thickness.
Tot The tunnel for the New York ST.
ar a which is a Disagreement and
ry- convenience to the city at the prese
rst time, is half cut. Only twelve mont
hip more will be required for the excaA
md ton. The cost so far has been $3.50
lad 600. More than $2.25O,OOO has be
spent in removing and changing Sc
erS.
The Persians have an ordnance r
ide tory at Teheran under the charge
TIE German officers which turns out exc
'p.e lent work. German machinery is us
yer by means of which 100000 to 100000
OF Mauser cartridges may be produt
uA- daily. Factories are also to he est
ma lished shortly for the manufacture
side arms.
Dog collars are made of all sorts
wv semiprecious stones in effective
signs. One fashionable style is of M;
rows of coral beads, with a large cl
Of brilliants. A fantastic collar Is
- imitation pearls. with a large vamp
? like buckle in front, the wings beine
~ odd blue enamel and the eye of blaz
help ieu MS soo,a+, of
+ho+ land has recognized Lord Roberts 81
o,,r ices to the empire by erecting n
ar lug ny us "-os - ~ tho 9,
veen Whicn ~ ~ T,,nona +
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They hooefts nausu ~ FROM tho
to Dy ranslsi'.ns
MOO house tt the new.
moe A gigantic crane, which is styled
help the y. = '".eess :
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