The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
ACT IN FEW LINES

The shooting Of firecrackers is not
American: it is Chinese.
One factory has marketed 6O.G00 elec-
trical hatirons this season.
There are 2a,46O more females than
males ID Cornwall, .sn5ntna.
The Johannesburg Public library is
now open on Sunday afternoons.
The Cathedral of Notre Dame in
Paris is now lighted by electricity.
Three times as much freight passed
the 800" last year as passed through
the Suez canal.
1t is estimated that the population of
British Somaliland is about 250. 900. Its
area is about 6S.0oO square miles.
Atlantic City possesses a police mo-
tor car which is used solely for the
conveyance of intoxicated prisoners.
During the last three years twenty
two millionaires have died in EnS.and.
Their average age was seven, y-1ive
years.
Within five years wages for all class
es of mechanical occupations have in
creased from 90 to % per cent in Ham
ilton, Canada.
Two Russian papers asked their
readers to name the ten greatest men.
and in both cases Tolstoi came out at
the top of the poll.
The largest tree in the world lies
broken and petrified at the end Of a
defile. in northwestern Nevada. 1t is
said to be 666 feet long.
1t is stated that on Jan. /, 1903. there
were 1,124 bituminous coal mines in
operation in Pennsylvania as compared
with 94S on Dec. 81. 1900.
There are more than 1900 machine
tending operatives in Lowell. Mass.
caring for $4,000 spindles and earn
ing over $4,000 a month in wages.
Wages of the working people of the
United Kingdom. according to official
statistics, showed a decrease Of 1920
600 last year compared with the pre-
ceding year.
1t is claimed by Boston that it ma..cs
the finest quality of Egyptian ciga-
rettes, produces the choicest italian
macaroni and has altogether the lh's-
brand Of the Irishman in politics.
The English post Office gives 20 per
cent better speed in delivering parcels
than the private carriers and at a cost
of 6 cents for a pound. 8 cents for two
pounds and "a cents for eleven pounds.
French drivers and firemen and even
French fuel will be imported for tn
trial in England of the De Glenn gait
locomotive engine which is being bal
in France for the Great Western rail-,
way.
Two submarines made a sham attack
on the French squadron at La RochHil"
recently in the evening, and so smar;!y
We're they handled that it is said in &c
tual warfare the whole division woulN.
have been annihilatcd.
Becuuerel has shown that radium
emits cathode rays moving at Il ve.ov-
ity of over 100000 miles a second y
particle travelling with this velocity aid
starting from the earth would reac.'
the moon in W. seconds.
A man in Cincinnati applied to th~
courts for an injunction to restrain iii
tongues of the gossips of the neigl3 Dor
l uOOO. L AlOAA JuAASAa1 - =
that there are some things beyond TIE
control of the highest human power.
Russell square. London. beloved Of
readers of VANITY Fair" seems to be
fast disappearing. Half of the east side
has been torn down to make room for a
mammoth hotel, and now the west side
is beginning to yield to blocks OF flats.
TTirh lioo,cO ~,on% into nffo0f IN Narx,
York city May 1, and as a result us
hotel and saloon keepers went out of
business. Under the new law licenses
were advanced from 5000 to $500 in
Brooklyn and from $500 to $1,000 in
Manhattan and the Bronx.
Since the introduction of the Bertil-
Ion system in France 10000 persons
who have committed crimes and who
were concealing their identity nave by
means of the system been identified
and brought to justice, and among all
these not one mistake is known to
have beer made.
The restriction of emigration from
the continent to London is now agitat-
ed as an urgent public question. The
census of the metropolis shows SO. 147
Russians. 27.427 Germans. 1920 Poles.
11.264 French and 1O.SS9 Italians. New
York city can digest that number of
foreigners every ear
The number of theological students
in Germany has diminished gradually
from 4.2G7 in 1890 to 2.149. or less than
half. although the population has dou-
bled since 1880. The insufticiency in
the number of candidates for the min
istry is discussed as a matter of e
, ceeding gravity by German ~theologians.
The town of White Pigeon. Mich.
claims to be run as cheaply as any
tO,yn in this country Last year it cost