The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-14
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monopolies.
India exported s46OOO,0o0 worth OF
cotton last year.
On many railways cement ties are
displacing wooden ties.
In firing the ordinary rife only AZ
per cent Of the powder explodes.
Ninety per cent of the wealth OF, the
United States is held by 10 per cent of
the people.
More than 100000 worth is taken
out Of the copper mines 1t Butte, Mont,
every week.
One factory at st. Etienne, France,
made last year 260 cannon to be used
against hailstorms.
Each of Germany's eight colonies ex-
cept Samoa receives a subsidy greater
than the revenue it yields.
The rule Of the car extends over
twice as much contiguous territory as
any other power in the world.
Not more than $500 persons in Paris
have a capital of as much as 100000.
and nearly one-third of those are for
eigners.
The people of the United States con-.
sumed during last year Lass. 1O.3O4
gallons of coffee and 1881. S75.437 gal
Ions of beer.
Seventy-nine per cent Of the popula-
ton of the United States were born
within the state or territory of their
present residence.
Professor Braun of the University of
Strassburg has undertaken to heat q
room in Munich by a fash light in Nu-
remburg, 100 miles distant.
The researches of the last few years
have furnished us with the lost consti-
tuition Of Aristotle. fragments Of Sap
pho, Isocrates and Hyperides.
The number of deaths each year in
London 40 years ago was 81 per thou
sand, In 1920 it was 20 per thousand.
and it now is about Is per thousand.
The recently appointed board on the
national trophy rifle contests recon-
mends that the school children through
out the United States be given small
arms practice.
The tenant under the contemplated
Irish land bill will pay annual pur>
chase installments for sixty-three
years, which are 20 per, cent less aver
age than he now pays annual rent.
Israel Smith. Jr., leader of the IA
nous Thirty-third Massachusetts regi-
ment band, now Il resident of New
Bedford, Mass, has in his possession a
drum that was used in the battle of
Bunker Hill.
A son was born recently to Mr.. and
Mrs. Cormac McCallis of Hazleton.
Pa, being the twenty-third child born
to the couple. Mrs. McCallis is forty
one years old and was married at the
age of seventeen years.
In Lynn, Mass, 24,OOO.OOO pairs of
shoes We're made last year, in Brockton
100000 pairs and in Haverhill -
100000 pairs. These three cities. there
fore, turned out enough shoes to supply
one pair for two-thirds of the popula-
ton of the country.
The cries of sea birds, especially sea
gulls, are very valuable as fog signals.
The birds cluster together on the cliffs
and coast. and their cries warn boat
that they are hear land. Some
years ago in the Isle Of Man there was
a fine for shooting such birds.
There are few more striking facts
than the growing Importance of the
Puget sound customs districts. In the
past year all the customs districts of
the United States showed a decline of
exports of grain and grain products
except the Pacific coast ports, the ship
from Puget sound ports increas-
ing Do per cent.
Natal proper. which is less than half
the size of the Orange River colony.
has so per cent more railways. South
ern EhodeSia is somewhat larger than
the T%ransvaal, but has only one-eighth
of its revenue and on~e-twentieth of it's |
population. yet it has more rail-
than the Transvaal and nearly
twice it's mileage.
IL" total number of arrests by the
New York police during last year was
l45 .9::3G. an increase of 12.1S7 over the
year 1901. The Tenderloin surpassed
all other precincts. with a total of
7,404; 1885 were charged with %intoxica-
ton. while 1885 people were accused
Of disorderly conduct and $3.50 of as.
sauit and battery.
One of the interesting exhibits that
may be seer in the horticultural depart
nent at the Louisiana Purchase expo
sition at st. Louis next year will be the
fruits fresh from South America. The
managers of fruit farms of the late
Cecil Rhodes at Cape Town have an
lounced their intention of placing fresh
fruits on exhibition each week. Even
London this feat has never been un-
iertaken.
The new English. licensing act en-
the magistrate to reduce the