The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-09-02
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Natives Of central Africa make but
ter out Of the nut Of the butter tree.
Pulque, the national tipple of Mexico,
looks like buttermilk and is sold for
3 cents a quart.
During the past year the night shell
ters of Paris received 67,2S3 men, 2,OO6
women and 1888 children.
Submarines are built Of sufficient
strength to permit them to sink to q
depth Of 100 feet If necessary, but Of
course they seldom 60 so far beneath
the surface.
Germany is probably the most dense
" wooded country in Europe. Over
Is per zen Of the area Of the empire is
covered with forest.
Twenty-one and a half columns of
the forthcoming Oxford English Die
tionary are devoted to the specific APP
plications of the adjective red.
The Brooklyn bridge has 1876 feet.of
clear Roadway under the center Of the
bridge at high water. The towers ex-
tend 27S feet above high water.
Alcoholism is extremely rare in the
~ dlllJs III 1OO4, Tue ldlCSL year
for which figures are available, only
twenty-five cases were admitted to the
hospitals.
The raising of asparagus for export
as we'll as for domestic use is an in
dustry Of considerable Importance in
parts Of Germany. It is confined
chiefly to certain localities of north
l Gn.rnanv a md vooyfS of Radon
There are many log cabins in the
Adirondacks that cost their owners
over 100000. apiece. Even interior
furnishings of some are of logs. One
has a piano of log design, the whole
: frame being made Of seasoned birch
logs.
An irrigation canal nearly forty
seven miles in length will be the first
step in the plans to reclaim $4,000 acres
of land west of Grand Junction, Colo,
and reaching to the Utah line. The
work laid out will cost over half a
million dollars.
1t is estimated that nearly $15,OOO,-
600 has been spent in Great Britain
upon rolling stock for the two new
South African colonies since the Brit
ish occupation and that from $780,
600 to $4,O0O,O0O per- annum will be
spent for some years to come.
AS a result of an offer by T. f. Tay-
lOr of a firm Of wooden manufacturers
in an English city of a sovereign to
each man, woman, boy and girl who
would give up smoking for twelve
- 0,,4 q - 600 l,-o 1,oo., l..4.:1..A~1 / -
141 men and boys and $40 women and
girls.
Massachusetts scientists are making
collections of rain water for testing
purposes. The plan is to analyZe the
rain that falls in any part of the state
and then compare it with the spring
water. This shows whether there is
the supply.
Honeymoon, the new treaty port of
China, is on the West river, Sunui dis
trict, in the province Of Kwangtung,
and by the river route is upward Of
sixty miles distant from Canton. Its
population within the walled city is
about 10000. Including the suburbs.
/ 4lS POpuldlAOA lCdCACS <OO,OOO. AuCIG
are no foreign residents either in Kong
moon or it's immediate vicinity.
The Lapland limited is perhaps the
most curious of through express trains
in that it carries fewer passengers and
runs over a longer distance than any
other train. This fier leaves Stock
holm, Sweden, once a week during the
| SVpr0ronrs months ond ,Vnc c%woi~I%
through to Narvik, a Norwegian harbor
within the arctic zone. The distance is
1886 miles.
Accumulation Of waste products is
the undoubted cause of tissue fatigue.
1t is said that it probably does not
much matter whether these waste
products are our own or other peoples.
The material giving rise to the sensa-
ton Of fatigue may be derived from
our own tissues by internal respiration
or it may be breathed in with foul air
from the tissues of others.
The Cinnamon, Japs and cholos Mex-
lean laborers) in southern California
are happy when olive picking time
comes and they leave the cities and
towns for the olive orchards. Picking
is a large item in the cost Of the olive
industry in California, and the aver
age price paid for picking olives for
making oil is $3.50 a ton, and for
picking purposes from $1S to $50 a
ton.
Experiments conducted by the agri-
cultural department of the University
Of Missouri have demonstrated that
the diseased chinch bugs sent out by
the United States department of agri-
culture to kill the chinch bugs by infec-
ton are entirely ineffective. The dis
eased bugs not only do not transfer
their disease to the healthy bugs, bnt
0 o after liberation completely recove
and do as much damage as the others.