The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-29
FACTS IN FEW LINES

ished the barmaid from it's saloons.
OF the 12,7O3 newspapers printed in
Germany q per cent are in other lam
guages.
Coal is dearer in South Africa than
in any other part Of the world. 1t is
cheapest in China.
There is trouble over the new two
shilling English coin. AS it shows Bri-
tannia she has only n foot.
A copy Of Poor Richards Almanac"
printed in 1880, was sold at auction in
Philadelphia recently for $685..
A cargo of $4,000 Australian birds
has been taken to London by one
steamer. They were sold at the dock
to dealers.
In a recent case in a Paris court 1t
was stated that the defendant. a young
officer of cavalry. had spent 100000
in five months.
Owing to the improved plague out
look in Johannesburg some 5000 ma
tives who had been segregated at
Klipspruit camp have been allowed to
re-entersthe town.
Spruce gum is becoming scarce and
harder to get in the Maine woods, and
schoolgirls who chevy, that sort will
have to pay more for it hereafter. The
gum now costs $1.35 a pound.
The Mount Vernon Ladies' associa-
ton has received a valuable gift, an
original portrait of Washington by Gill
bert Stuart, presented by Mrs. Ida A.
Richardson, viceregent for Louisiana.
According to Professor Mosso people
are able to live longer the more their
nerves are %enfeebled. The less robust
a person is, he points out, the ADLER he
is to resist the ravages of time and
disease.
A gristmill on the shore Of Oyster
Bay, N. y, which was built 22O years
ago and which is now run by Jesse
Mollineaux is to be demolished. The
building has not been changed since
the Revolution.
Including the higher officials London
has over 10000 persons on it's police
force. A policeman's pay is at first
only SO a week, rising to So. Inspect
ors get $1,000 a year. The commits
sioner's salary is $4,000.
The district of Guayaquil, in the re,
public Of Ecuador, leads the world in
the production of cacao and has b lar
ger output than the whole of Africa,
which continent, however, is in many
parts we'll adapted for it's culture.
A London postman stole stamps from
the letters he collected from boxes.
Finally stamps marked with invisible
sensitive ink were posted for his bene-
fit. He was caught with some of them
upon him. and they were developed"
in his presence.
In Algeria the grinding of corn is
considered a mental employment and
falls to the lot of ONE now as in
S%criptural times. She performs this
duty on a portable hand mill, which is
strapped ON a camel or donkey, during
the nomadic tribal wanderings.
The pipe line from the Baku petro-
leum fields, on the Caspian sea, to Ba-
tum, on the Black sea-, $50 miles, will
be completed during 1905 and will dou-
BILE the transportation facilities for oil.
A part of this line, 143 miles at the
eastern end, has been in operation for
several years.
According to a recent report of the
geological survey the total anthracite
production for 1903 was 66,351, 713 tons.
The average price Of $3.50 brought the
value up to $152,O36,448. The number
Of men employed to mine the output,
which amounted to 100000 more tons
than in 1902. was 15O,463.
BY a recent decision Of the supreme
court Of Illinois against Chicago that
city will be called upon to expend from
100000 to 100000 in deferred
street paving, besides much more for
sewer, water pipe and other specia! as.
sessment work. More than one hun.
dred miles of streets are affected.
II have not much doubt that the
French in a few years will be able te
supply themselves with cotton, princi
pally, II not wholly, from their wes'
African possessions" says United
| States Consul Strickland Of Senegal
/ An Italian syndicate, with a capital Of
| $1OO, 1000, win foster cotton growing II
east Africa.
British automobiles are discardinl
the words chauffeur" and garage
| for "motorman" and ''motor house.
The former are too Frenchy. But, OF
| the other hand, "motorman" In THU
country is pre-empted by the stree
railway. The Britons, however, will
call this an Americanism and go on II
their i%nsularity.
New York boasts Of some fair imita
lions Of the Tower Of Babel. Such ar
the Manhattan Life building, 22 sto
ries, 348 feet; the st. Paul building, 2
stories, 3OS feet, and the Park Row
building, % stories, 1872 feet. Build
ings Of from Is to 20 stories and $50 t
800 feet are such common incidents o
the landscape as scarcely to attract at