The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-06-26
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Japan's shipyards turned out forty
one steamers last year.
The t~wenty-seven railway bridges in
the Uganda (Africa) road are Ameri-
can.
Albania has n population of a million
and a half who are nearly all MOham-
medans.
A penny of Ethelred's reign, found
near Tetbury. Worcestershire. has been
sold for f61.
German manufacturers are inquiring
in this country for bones suitable for
knife handles.
It has been decided that aliens In
British prisons are not to be taught
! any trade in the future.
An engine driver working from
Crewe to London and back has to no.
tice no fewer than $40 signals.
An electrical typesetting machine
will. says it's inventor, revolutionize
the mechanical work on a newspaper.
The Aichi Clock company in Japan
employs 300 workmen, whd make time
pieces which are both handsome and
cheap.
The British government will NY all
the railways in South Africa. the colo
MES to pay interest on the $65!OOO.OVO
necessary to the purchase.
For the first time in the history OF
our government the imports have ex-
ceeded a billion dollars a year. The
exports are about $1,400,OOO, OOO.
The recent census of Scotland and
Ireland shows them to be almost equal
in population, each having but a few
more people than the state of Ohio.
An advertiser paid $1,000 for the
privilege of painting the name OF his
product on a big chimney in lower New
York where it could be seen from the
North river ferryboats.
The driver of a closed gas motor car.
rage in Paris recently noticed that his
two passengers were on the floor of the
vehicle and found that gas fumes had
rendered them unconscious.
The British post Office department
' ha ndled last year ninety-two pieces
Of mail matter per capita Of popula-
ton, while the United States post OF
fee handled 1871 pieces per capita.
MuuCnuClu E1VulS O1CSOA Al '
. timber and climate and has abundance
of gold. silver, iron and coal. 1t has
the area Of Texas and three times the
population Of the state Of New York.
Artificial camphor is now made in
Germany for the trade as carbohydrate
e of terebinth. 1t has a peculiar value in
!, lessening. the dangers of nitroglycerin
and making gelatin dynamite more eff
e fective.
e There are not more than 1000 gen
eral advertisers in the whole country,
an astonishingly small proportion Of
the total number of firms and corpora
lions engaged in advertisable lines OF
business.
,e A German scientist, DR.. Kaufman
asserts that the electrostatic attrac
e. ton of unlike charges Of electricit.
le ia somewhat greater than the repul
I'd sion of such charges. 1t this be tru'
X! gravitation is explained.
it Railway wrecking cranes are nov
constructed as high as fifty tons ca
~ pacity. Such a crane will swing
e. loaded freight car from any place with
in reach or raise a locomotive ate
a its easily detachable parts are re
n, moved.
le- The increase in the foreign import
al of Manchuria in ten years has been
tn the various commodities 100 to 0 pr
lid cent. The customs revenues in IN
to were $91O,OOO. The great growth !
trade has resulted from the free expo
rs. tation of beans, bean cake and bean Of
Re- Four great coal stations are about
'ne be exploited in South Africa. II
Ips most southerly field lies between Lad.
q, smith and the northern boundary {
lru Natal. These regions will in the nes
future supply a large part of tt
NJ worlds demand for coal. Natal e:
d ported 100000 tons in 1901.
' :, The amount of money yearly spel
w for advertising in the United States
u.' about 5000, 900, 900, a sum equal to Il
'"' value Of the annual corn crop or a
twice the value Of the wheat crop. mo
than six times the value of the pig III
production in a year and nearly tnr
tunes the annual gold production.
Sir Clements Markham. president
the Royal Geographical society. stror
" deprecates the costly expeditio
which the various nations sent out
sos rivalry without any system of coop
,,,+ alton. He considers future north p'
ros' expeditions as worthless, useless
geographical purposes. useless jfrc
the naturalist's point of view.
md The proportion of university studel
his il going up in Holland and the Unit
se,s States at the rate of 5 per cent per
mum, in Germany and Belgium by
per cent in Switzerland by more til
st. Z per e wnlle IN France l'aiy' =
and tria and Russia the anhuai incle'
Il. a docs not foil behind these figures.