The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-25
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FACTS IN FEW LINES

for females.
The receipts from passenger traffic
are greater on Japan's railways than
those from freight.
1t is expected that telegraphic com.
mtinication with Fashoda will be es.
tablished very shortly.
According to the monks of tile Hos
pice of st. Bernard, the famous dogs
save on an average twenty lives every
year in the mountain.
President Loubet has authorized the
Paris Museum OF Natural History to
accept NJ. Boullet's collection OF BUT
t%erflies, which is valued at $4,000.
London is the birthplace Of the Young
Mems Christian association, and. al
though 1t celebrated some eight years
ago it's semicentennial, 1t has not be-
come languid.
Illinois ranks first among the states
In the manufacture of agricultural i'm
plements, bicycles, cars, glucose and
distilled liquors and in slaughtering
and meat packing.
quite fallacious to endeayOr to test the
acidity of milk with litmus paper, since
1t is possible to condemn all fresh milk
as the result of applying that test.
In the case of the French ship which
went ashore on the Goodwins evidence
given in the admiralty court showed
that by means of m short wireless
message property to the amount Of
$272,94O was saved.
| hi nv toll C0l1n nnrv NnrOv s1e1 ms n SaO LIZA
tional English dish, was first made by
the very poor among Huguenot refugees
from France, after the revocation Of
the edict of Nantes, because OK tails
then had 10 market value.
The debts Of most southern states d.
minish slowly, but the debts of south
ern cities are not generally considera-
BILE. New Orleans owes $1S,OOO,OOO,
Louisville $8,0OO,O 900, Kansas City &c.
100000, Memphis $3,3OO,OOO, Atlanta
$4,000 and Nashville 3 100000.
In the Irish house of lords, now the
board room of the directors of the Bank
Of Ireland, are on view two great
wooden chests, strongly bound in iron,
which are believed to have contained
the money with which King William
III. paid his troops after the battle Of
the Boyne.
An association Of prominent men has
been organized in England to force par I
lament to create a royal commission
which shall investigate the question Of
feeding England in time of war. The
association advocates the old idea Of /
establishing great granaries to hold a
reserve supply of food.
John Eliot's Indian Bible Of 1865 was
on exhibition at the woman's board |
meeting in Boston, having been loaned
by the town of Natick, by which it is
owned. The book is in an excellent
state Of preservation. Two other
copies of this Bible are in existence
n in Connecticut, the other in Eu-
rope
The bubonic plague, which has now
been in India more thar six years,
shows no sign of abating. There have
been over $4,000 deaths a week from
the plague for some time past. One
week the number reached 29,647. 1t is
calculated that since 1896 over 2,OOO,- |
600 people have died in India from the
plague.
The irrigation works recommended
by the geological survey give interest
to the report on the irrigation works
Of India. The net revenue to the gov
eminent was 1856 per cent on an outlay
of $11O,O0O,OOO. The value of the crops
raised on the irrigated area during the
year is estimated at $135, 600. OOO-a J
sum in excess of the capital outlay.
Speaking of freight rates, DIR. LIE
Monnier, privy counselor of Germany,
said in a recent lecture that the aver
age freight charge in the United States
was exactly one-half that Of the Ger
wheat from Chicago to New York is
but o%ne-fourth as much as that from
Bomberg to the Rhine, a distance half
as great.
A leper was exhibited at a lecture to
an audience of Chicago university stu
dents the other day. DR.. James Nevins
Hyde, the lecturer, said that leprosy is
not dangerously contagious, that it is
durable and that it is gradually disap-
pearing from all countries. He does
not believe that any drug capable Of
curing leprosy will ever be discovered.
Cleanliness and good food, he asserted,
are the surast and best remedies.
The Canadian government has issued
a census bulletin which gives statistics
as to agriculture in Alberta, Assiniboia
and Saskatchewan, which united COM
pose the Northwest Territories. The to-
tai area of these territories is 8 ,963,-
1T acres. OF this area 1899 per cent
Is u~nimproved. Field crops, exclusive
Of hay, occupy 50 per cent of the i'm
proved land, but only a fair beginning
has been made with fruit trees and
vegetables.