The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-10-06
FACTS IN FEW MES

Twenty-three acres of ground are
needed to bury London's dead Of one
year.
All the blood in n mans body passes
through his heart one in every two
minutes.
Large numbers Of Chinese in Man
churia have already learned to speak
pigeon Russian.
The borough authorities of Brooklyn
propose to lay out a public park as a
memorial to Henry Ward Beecher.
In the Indian Territory 10000 acres
Of coal lands are to be sold at auction
and the proceeds divided among the
Indians.
In Southwark, the smallest London
borough, there were more lunatics last
year than in any other metropolitan
borough.
A 10000 horse power steam turbine
has been ordered for the Rhenish-
Westphalian electrical works at Essen.
Germany.
In Leipsic, Germany, automobiles are
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to streets %traversed by electric cars
elsewhere.
The largest living thing on earth is
the new found redwood tree in Califor-
mia, which is $50 feet high and 1856 feet
in circumference.
The ribbon looms operated in st. Ell
enne, the greatest ribbon manufactur-
ing city of France, are now supplied
with electrical power.
More vandalism has taken place in
Lichterfelde, a suburb of Berlin, the
colossal bust of Emperor William I.
being totally destroyed.
Professor Dunbar of Hamburg claims
to have discovered the poison in the
pollen of flowers which causes hay fe-
yer and also it's antidote.
The house of peers consisted at the
end of last year of 504 princes of the
blood and hereditary peers of England,
Great Britain and the United Kingdom.
In a laying competition Of the Utl-
ity Poultry club at Crewe, England, the
four-year-old pullets which took the
first prize laid 276 eggs in sixteen
weeks.
The red deer Of New Zealand are es-
timated to number between 1000 and
5000 individuals, the offspring of two
stays and six kinds that were turned
out in 1868.
The German antarctic expedition in
the Gauss has reached the Cape of
Good Hope after nearly two years Of
effort. Every previous well fitted ex-
petition has penetrated farther south
than it.
Ethnologists Of the Smithsonian in
stitution have investigated the Philip
pines, with results that are of are in
terest to science. They have called at
tention to the fact that in the veins of
blood of all the races and varieties of
mankind.
"Gassing' trees has become so large
q business in California that a Los An
geles mar has an outfit for it which
cost $4,000. Tents are used to conf1ne
the gas to the trees and to protect the
operators from the deadly prussic acid
which is liberated from a saucer at the
trees root.
The Tucson chamber Of commerce
has given the site and will install a
water supply and an electric light plant
for the Desert laboratory of the Carne-
gle institution on a mountain two miles
west of their city. The object Of the
undertaking is to study the plants
characteristic of arid regions.
On a newly erected memorial stone in
Yarmouth appears this inscriptions: "In
memory of -. who died of disease
contracted in South Africa. The Lord
be praised" Wiltshire has this epitaph
Beneath this soil a lump Of clay lies
Arabella Young, who on the Oath OF
May began to hold her tongue"
The largest automatic weighing ma,
chine is on it's way from England tc
Natal. 1t has a total weighing capaci.
ty of 100 tons and is fitted with auto
matte indicators. so arranged that
chine the weight carried by each wheel
is automatically and instantly exhib'
tied.
Several hundredweight of cottor
grown in the Kilwa district of German
East Africa have just been tested a
the Bremen Cotton Exchange. anG
these trials are reported to have result
ed in showing that this cotton is near
~ as good in staple, color, ETC., as the
highly valued Egyptian product. from
seeds of which it is grown.
Extended and ~painstaking expert
ments with formalin injections in ami
mails suffering from inoculated septicae
mia in the laboratory Of the New Yorl
health department show conclusively
that formalin, the recently vauntet
cure for blood poisoning, is more in