The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-05
FACTS IN FEW LINES

has q lace handkerchief worth S1U,UOV.
Theodore Pidcock, a Washington (N.
~ farmer, claims to have the Oldest
pillow in America.
The age at which the greatest num-
Der of Japanese girls marry is between
twenty and twenty-one.
Andrew Carnegie has the best collec-
ton of autographs Of crowned heads
and famous persons in contemporary
history.
The Tamarack copper mine, in the
Lake Superior region, is said to be the
deepest shaft in the world. 1t is now
down 4,973 feet.
The production Of steel ingots in Ha-
vre, France, in 1908 was 1,S54.62O tons
against 1,56S,3O3 tons in 1902, an in
crease of 2S6,317 tons.
Growers Of the famous ROCKFORD
cantaloupe at Rockyford, Colo, report
an average net return Of $3.50 an ccre
for the aso of 1908. 8
DR.. Cecilio Baez, the newly appoint
ed minister from Paraguay to the
United States, is the first minister that
country has had here in fifteen years.
For a new variety of rhubarb it is
claimed that it not only fruits all the
year round, but that it's flavor reseLl-
bles a combination Of the raspberry
and strawberry.
The Oldest brewer Of lager beer in
the United States died in New York
recently at the age Of eighty-four. He
was Max Schaefer, and he learned the
brewers trade in Germany.
In an article on the eating of rats
and mice the London Medical Press as
serts that, apart from prejudice, there
is no particular reason why we should
not feed on our domestic rodents"
The gold dollar of the United States
is the monetary standard of Canada,
British Honduras and Colombia, and it
is anticipated that Mexico will attain
the gold standard, with the American
dollar as it's unit, at an early date.
DR.. Dawson Burns has published his
annual analysis of England's drink
bill. The total amount Of the expendi-
ture on spirits, wine and beer during
1903 was E174,445,271, a decrease Of
M HEN-T
over { 5,OOO,OOO as compared with 1902.
Lake Baikal, the "Holy sea-" is, ex-
cepting Victoria Nyanza, in Africa,
the largest lake in the eastern .hemi-
sphere. 1t is 300 feet deep, it's bot
tom being 1000 feet below sea level,
and in area corresponds to Lake Michi-
gan.
At NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., York
shire, live John and Ellen Baxter, sup.
posed to be the Oldest married couple
in England. John is ninety-siX years OF
age, and his wife is ninety-eight. They
have been married s~eventy-five years
and have lived in one cottage over six
ty years.
Fifty-three women have been regu
larly ordained and are doing the full
work of ministers. FOrty-ive of the
fifty-three = married, although SOM
of them We're ordained before mar
riage. Most of them have Independent
parishes. where they preach, make
pastoral visits, oficiate at marriages
and at funerals.
Hundreds Of boys from the Denver
juvenile court will be sent into the
sugar beet fields near Lon:.laoHt. Colo.
to work this summer. The bots will b.
sent out in parties of twenty-five eacl
in charge Of a probation officer an(
will be equipped with tents and camp
ing outfits. They car carr from $1.2'
to 81 per day each.
Rev. Thomas n. Laslie, principal o
the public schools of O~wensville, Ind,
believes in fogging. In n day re
Gently he whipped thirty-two boy
ranging in age from eve to fourteen
years. All the boys were in n room
and the floggings were administers
only after the principal had been Gale,
to that room three times to Quell dis
turbances.
A clever smuggling plan has come t
light on the Dutch-B Belgian frontier
where a farmer had some building
put up, part of which were. in the on
country and part in the other. Tn
: customs officials. hearing strang
sounds, made a search and d%iscovere
an underground passage for the illt
? gal passing of cattle and pigs acros
the frontier.
At a recent examination Of youn
: men in England three Of the answer
J to the question. What is the Monro
doctrine?' were: 1.-THE religion q
America taught by DR.. Monroe or til
: TRANSPORTATION Of souls" 1.-The do
: trine that people may be married sey
: eral times" zone hat has to do wit
the vaccination and smallpox; it wa
brought out by Professor Monroe"
The adulteration Of and use Of IL
ferior materials in the making OF cal
dy are beginning to attract much a
tention in England. Professor Oosto
: recently lectured on ''saccharom;
MACS" He expressed the opinion ths
!. future scientists would place the eviA
:. Of sugar gluttony on a pedestal as col
rpfo,,o,1c &c tho dr;rl, r,,oc+sop NC n n y,