The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-18
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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Kansas City alone has $5O.O00.000 In
vested in Mexico.
Tattooing is now done with a needle
driven by electricity.
In New York city schools 1000 chill
dren have trachoma.
The typewriter is more largely used
In Mexico than in France.
More than one-third of the inhabit-
ants Of St. Louis are of German blood.
The United States imports Of tropical
and s%emitropical fruits $1.O0O.OOO a
day.
In Sweden bricks are laid in zero
weather by heating the sand for the
mortar.
The density or relative population Of !
Cuba is nearly the same as that OF the
United States.
Thirty-seven per cent Of the Ameri-
can people now live in cities Of more
than 1000 inhabitants.
Panama ranks eth in population
and seventh in area among the states
Of the Colombian republic.
The longest telephone wire span ID
the world is 5000 feet from pole to
pole. spanning the ~Susquehanna at
Lancaster. Pa.
A child Of five should weigh forty
one pounds, be forty-one and one-half
inches in height and have a chest girth
| of twenty-three and one-half inches.
A small fraction of an ounce Of radi-
um, properly employed, would provide
a good light sufficient for several rooms
and would not require renewal during
the present century.
The bashi-bazouks are guerrillas from
Asia Minor. are transported by the
Turkish government to scenes Of trou-
BILE and are then expected to malke their
own living from loot.
The German state gives to one uni
versity more than the British govern
ment allows to all the universities and
university colleges in England. Ireland
and Scotland together.
In the absence of horses both a ploW
and a mower were used. tied behind
his automobile. by Mr.. Raser. an Ohio
farmer. The machine was geared too
fast to give the best results.
White farm labor is producing an in
creasing proportion of cotton. and the
dictum that the negro is absolutely III
dispensable for cotton culture Is fast
} becoming a wornout tradition.
Maximite. the congestion Of which
is a government secret, is about three
;, times as powerful as ordinary gun
powder and Is a powdery substance,
melted by heal and poured into a she'll
While n room tenements in London
: have decreased from 172,5O2 to 149.524
t or IA per cent. three room and fou1
t room tenements have increased 16 pei
cent. 1S per cent and p per cent re-
spectively. VI
+ Some flowers appear to change theil
, scents at different times. h common
Jasmine flowers. when first opened
;, have a delicate fresh perfume which
after a time becomes grosser and at
tracts %bluebottle flies.
Advance reports indicate that the re
turns of the recent census OF the Phil
ippines, when tabulated, will show
: population Of 100000, exclusive o
the wild tribes Of the mountains, which
are estimated at less than a million.
y The coal handling machinery at
Boston wharf recently lowered til
worlds record by raising coal from
steamer ninety feet to storage pocket
g at the rate Of 800 tons an hour. In
capacity of the shovel was w tons.
The thin, coat of black oxide left O
iron after rolling is the most permaner
form of iron oxide. and u slight amour
of rust does not prevent paint from az
Sc herring to iron. Therefore h theor
that iron must be cleaned to a whit
surface by sand blast or otherwise b
10 fore painting seems ~untenable.
The Prussian wal department fin6
that in every 1000 young men arrivir
III at the age of military duty seventee
are suffering from heart disease. Stric
in Ter. who has been studying the subjec
:, declares that the cause of the gre;
prevalence is the increasing degenerat
and of the youth of tt
aS land.
ne The German empress has sxpresst
the desire that for the future all plec
IN intended for representation at the cou
in theater shall be submitted to her frs
,r. so that nothing may be played
doubtful morality or likely to sho'
the audience. Her majesty reserv
the right of vetoing my play she mi
on choose.
The most wonderful bird flight not
he Is the migratory achievement of t
on Virginia plover, which leaves its mort
M ern haunts in North America and, ia
nd ing a course down the Atlantic. usu;
:. " from 400 te 500 miles east of t
Bermudas, reaches the coast of Bra
in one unbroken flight of fifteen hou
covering a distance of 5000 miles
ers the rate of four miles q minute.