The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-11
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Cremation is growing in public, favor
in Scotland.
Women, it is reported, are to be adj
mitted to graduate ut Dublin %univer-
sity.
Artificial teeth and ''uppers'' for boots
and shoes are among the new uses to
which paper is being put.
Compared with 1901 the population
of New Zealand (S51,0G3, including 43,-
143 Maoris) shows an increase last
year of 2O,2G3.
An Australian scientist has annlyzed
a meteor, which contained traces of
cold. showing that that element is not
monopolized by the earth.
In connection with the Orange split
in Belfast 5000 members have resolved
to form an independent Orange order
run on democratic lines.
To improve Shooting in the British
navy Gibson Eowles will suggest i'll
the house that retention of commands
shall depend on gunnery results.
When the appeal for help for the per-
secuted Jews in kishineff was made In
New York the Chinese gave a benefit
performance in the Chinese theater and
raised nearly $500.
Dig t., from the camp at Boulo.na
witch Napoleon formed in the hope of
invading England, a collection of but
tons representing twcnty French regi-
ments has been presented to the Army
museum at Paris.
According to statistics just issued by
the Reims chamber Of commerce. o.
52s3, TAG bottles OF French champagne
have been exported during the last
twelve months. while only 14,G11,S56
bottles were sold in France.
That the people Of the United States
do not eat rice is shown by the sta
tistics that a population of SO,O00,00O
less than five pounds per
capita per annum of the 4OO,O00,O0O
pounds Of clean rice now produced an
nually.
ment offices in the five large cities of
the state. and the officials in charge
report that from 1890 to 1900 the total
number Of applicants of both sexes was
27O.91O, of whom 1860 were given
employment.
At the beginning Of January, 1908,
the American Federation of Labor had
2,425 unions affiliated. divided as fol-
lows: n. tional and international
unions. 1O1; state branches. IS; city
centrals, Alb; local trade and federal
unions, 1875.
Hall Caine locates the scene of the
bravest deed with which he is acquaint-
cd at the Vatican. '"The hero of the in
cident in question:" he writes. twas
Pope Leo Kill, who. Oh the occasion
of our first interview, actually con
fessed that he had never read one of
my books"
Since the great volcanic disturbances
in the Windward islands it has been
impossible to maintain unbroken cable
connections between the islands of
Martinique and Guadaloupe, and the
French government has established a
wireless telegraph service between the
two. The distance exceeds 100 miles.
1t has long been known that paper
was first made in China and was in
troduced in Europe Germany in 1890.
Sven Hedin on his last Asiatic trip
discovered fragments of Chinese paper
that We're 1000 years old. Himly of
Wiesbaden, the expert in old Chinese,
is engaged in deciphering the writing
on the paper.
The famous %cataleptic sleeper, Mile
Boyenval of Thenells, France. has nov
been asleep for twenty years without
moving Il muscle. Recently an abscess
appeared on her arm. and when the
doctors lanced it she gave a slight
twitch, this being the only outward
sign of life she has given since tho
state of coma first appeared.
The Society Of American Authors is
proposing to move upon congress at it,
next session in behalf of the carriage
of authors manuscripts in the mails al
third class rates, or two nee for {
cent. The proposed reduction in thi.
country will make postage in the Unit
ed States what it is in Europe and be
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universal postal union.
! A carpet industry was started a few
years ago in a poor district in Don
cgal, and, commencing with a doze1
women workers. it has grown to sucl
an extent that it now finds employ
J ment for several hundred people. TIL
carpets are handmade, after the Turk
ish and Persian fashion, in mosaics o
small wooden squares, the designs ant
colorings being most artistic and ef
f~ective.
II a small quantity Of radium is he'll
against the forehead while the eyes ar
closed one will see light. The ray
penetrate to the retina and it t
phosphoresce. The more recently dis
covered polonium Is closely allied to Il