The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-02-23
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Uncle am s annual McOIue Is %ooos-
887,14S.
Florida's orange and pineapple crop
is estimated at s 2,50O,O00.
The crystal palace tower at the st.
Louis fair will be 1,o50 feet high.
The population of London has in.
creased II per cent in fourteen years.
More poisonous snakes are found in
Arizona than in any other part of the
United States.
Most reptiles are VIGOROUSLY deaf. ex
cept caynans and crocodiles. The boa
seems absolutely SO.
British Columbia has produced $780,
72S,53S worth Of gold and $5S,9S9,572
worth of coal and coke.
OF all the larger cities of the country
Chicago has the largest proportion of
males in it's total population.
Farm machinery saved in the plant
ing and gathering of last years crop in
the United States $700,O00,000.
The proportional increase in the pop
ulation of the cities was less during
the last ten years than previously.
Seventy-seyen per cent of the women
and but 90 per cent of the men taking
the civil service examination are able
to pass it.
The British museum has an atlas
seven feet high of the fifteenth century.
1t is supposed to be the largest book in
the world.
In Servia there Is a soldier for every
twenty-five inhabitants. In the United
States there is one soldier for every
1900 inhabitants.
A steel-like grass from the volcanic
slopes of Oran, Algeria, is SO elastic
that it can be used instead of springs
in the manufacture Of furniture.
The Uganda mission, in Central Afri-
| ca, begun twenty years ago, has now
| 1,O7O church buildings, seating 126,S5O
persons, erected chiefly at the cost of
the people.
Every year nearly 100000 Russians
become liable for military service, but
Of these only 10000 enter the active
army, the remainder being passed di-
rect into the militia for twenty-five
years.
The German government will intro
duce in the reichstag a bill requiring
saloon keepers to sell mountaineering
hot and cold drinks and cold foods.
Credit will be forbidden and the num-
Der of barmaids limited.
A Stun inspector told the Glasgow
municipal commission on the housing
of the poor that on some occasions he
had found families sleeping in tiers,
the parents ON the floor, then a mat
tress and a layer Of children on the top.
The mines of the Black Hills district,
South Dakota, for the year just closed
produced $S,363,392, which is nearly
$1,OO0,OOO increase over the previous
year. The average value Of the ore
handled in the district per ton was
$4.44.
A small boy in East st. Louis, ILL.,, re
Gently went to the authorities of the
town and claimed that he had been kid
mapped by a negro who wished to make
a monkey of him. The boys skin had
been stained, and he said that he had
been in a cage of monkeys in a circus
for a week.
The rays of radium are of three kinds
Those of one class are but feebly pene
trating. Another class are negatively
charged electrons moving at a high We
locity, like those discovered in a Crookes
tube. A third class are not detected by
a magnet and are highly penetrating
like those of Roentgen.
The value of the endowment of insti
tutions of higher education in the sin
gle state of New York exceeds the tota
amount Of benefaction for similar pur
poses raised during thirty years in thu
whole of the United Kingdom. Tit
same is nearly true in the states o.
Massachusetts and California.
The government of Honduras contem
plates a departure from former meth
DDS of it's consular service owing to {
desire to increase its commerce and in
dustries as we'll as to improve the in
terror conditions of the republic by aug
menting the number of inhabitants ant
l%andholders from foreign countries.
During April last the population O
Berlin proper decreased by 1000 per
sons, who moved their homes to wha
is hoped will some day be parts o
Greater Berlin. Twenty years ago tn
consolidation might have been effecte.
at a cost of $20,OO0,OOO. Today tn
government is opposed to the plan, s.
that there is little chance OF it's bein'
adopted.
The report that Henri Rochefort is il
a very poor state Of health is an exag
geration, judging from the following
paragraph in a recent letter from Pal
Is: 1.-THE blue green eyes are still bright
the white tuft Of hair is still magnif
Gently upright, and the step is still
alert and steady. AS for the dali,
leading article in the Intransigeant, !