The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-06-12
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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canteen was 20 per cent Of his pay.
Americans are making an effort to
establish a steel plant at Flushing,
Holland.
The proportion Of policemen to popu-
lation is one to 307 in Paris. n to 4OS
1n'London and one to 45S in New York.
American tourists annually spend
abroad an average of $75,OOO.OOO. anil
foreign tourists leave about $50. O0,OcU
here.
Goose quill pens and drying powders
are still used in English law courts and
the house Of lords and in the French
chamber Of deputies.
The editor of a weekly newspaper in
Australia offers himself as a prize to
the woman who writes the best essay
on the duties Of a wife.
Andrew Carnegie has given 100000
in cash to the Western Reserve univer-
sity Of Cleveland. o., the money to be
used in the training Of librarians.
In England the annual consumption
Of southern fruit amounts to fifteen
pounds per head. In Germany 1t aver
ages not quite three pounds per head.
The average passenger haul on steam
railways has increased from twenty
three to ~twenty-seven miles since cleo
trical lines have been competing for
suburban business.
The botanical papers report that De
vries, the great Dutch experimental
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selection produced a variety of clover
which has normally four leaves.
OF the 40 steamships now in Nor
gan's combine. operated as the Inter
national Mercantile Marine company,
but ten We're built in America and but
twelve carry the American flag.
Two black oak chairs said to have
belonged to Mary, queen o. Scots, and
to have been rescued when Hawley's
dragons set fire to Linlithgow palace
were sold in London recently for $500
each.
OF the Ave new battle ships author
ICED by congress the three 10000 ton
vessels will be. named Vermont, Kan.
sas and Minnesota, and the two 10000
ton vessels will be named Mississippi
and Idaho.
Successful experiments have been
made in generating electricity to light
railway trains by placing a fan on the
front end Of the locomotive. The pres.
sure Of the air revolyes the fan and
produces the power.
The Monterey (Mexico) steel plant.
with a capital Of about $4,OO0,OOO gold.
In which several wealthy Americans
are largely interested, started working
on the list Of March. 1t is expected to
produce 300 tons a day.
There are 1000 varieties Of postage
stamps in circulation today, all OF
which have to be identified by the
postmasters. There have been upward
of 10000 different varieties issued since
stamps came into use.
A medal has been struck by the Ger
man Samaritan union in honor of Pro
fessor Won Esmarch's eightieth birth
day. This medal will be awarded tc
those who have distinguished them
selves in the service of the sick.
The marine cable industry was con
fronted by a scarcity of gutta percha
which is used to incase the wires. unit
a tree producing it was found on the
Amazon. Now it has been discovered
in abundance in German New Guinea.
AS the result Of the official inquiry
into the collapse Of the campanile al
Venice it is declared that the case Of
the disaster was the cutting of a trench
without the adoption of precautions
The report censures the district archi
tects.
The Automotor Journal, London, de
scribes a new traction engine called
the '.pedrail. which literally walks vi
stairs with the stride and sur footed
ness Of an elephant" and hauls load'
far in excess of those the wheeled trac
ton engine can move.
-Four hundred and fifty acres Of LAM
have been obtained at Blairgowrie
P%erthshire, Scotland, to enable Scottish
peasants to try the Irish scheme o.
small holdings. but without aid from
taxation. Fruit growing and fowl rear
ing are to be insisted on.
The deaths from pneumonia per 10,
900 Of population in 1860 were 4.4O; il
1870. 1924; in 1880, 1858; in 1890
1884: in 1900. 1918. an aggregate In
crease Of 349.6 per cent Of pneumonia
as compared with an aggregate de
crease Of 1915 per cent of consumption
The Elgin dairy report says in speak
ing Of the Kennedy milking
machine, q New Zealand invention, IS
far as the experience Of users has gon
the results are Of such a satisfactor.
nature as to Justify the belief that a
length the mechanical mixer has al
rived"
An interesting feature of the applica
\ ton of electricity on shipboard is tn