The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-04-05
FACTS IN FEW LINES

xue pOpuluLtOu VI EtuSSIU Is luCFclS-
ing 100000 annually.
The average yield Of wheat in Rus
sda is less than half that Of the United
The export Of sole leather from the
United States averages about 100000
a month.
Sugar beets thrive In different kinds
Of soil in divers climates and Over q
large area.
Exclusive of locomotives we manu-
facture 10000 engines Of 100000
horsepower every year.
An admiral flies his flag at the main
mast, a vice admiral at the fore and a
rear admiral at the mizzen.
The Russian official organ in st. Pc
tersburg has a fine name for the news
boys. 1t is the P%rauitelstvini Viestnik.
In the province of Samara, Russia,
4O5, 600 persons get their subsistence
from less than three acres of land per
capita.
This is how a Welsh paper wished
it's readers a happy new year: "Diolch
"a SaAS 0A RS~N
q 'llawer o honyn' nhw."
An orange measuring twelve inches
In diameter and weighing nine pounds
has been grown by F. Gerber of Braam
River, Kouga. South Africa.
A sealed bottle containing four pints
Of liquid air was sent from Berlin to
Geneva, but on arrival it was found
kf,ok %1wo1 MD n holP p3nfc had nvorn
rated.
With a population of about 100000
Paris has fewer than 100 negroes with
in its limits. 1t is claimed h a the
colored population of all France is less
than $50.
The new cathedral at Liverpool will
be remarkable for it's high vaulting Of
the nave and choir-116 feet, measured
In the barrel vaulting, and in the high
transepts 40 feet.
A monumental work of reference, an
encyclopedia of sixteen large volumes,
Is just being published in New York
city. Whether by design or accident,
not a page is numbered.
The United States is not the only
government that is feeling a little nerv-
GUS about the big guns or its war
ships. The new British 90 inch gun
Is not coming up to expectations.
Adult suffrage was tried for the first
time in the commonwealth Of Australia
in the federal elections held on Dec.
16, 1908. The total number of voters
registered was 100000, of whom in
round numbers 100000 We're women.
II one could save a cent the first day
Of the month, 2 cents the next day, 4
cents the next and so on, doubling the
amount each day, he would have near
" 100000 at the end of the month,
provided the month had thirty-one
days and his salary could stand the
pressure.
The characteristic feature of the au'
tomobile train invented In France is
the principle that each car propels
itself. The propelling force only is
furnished by the locomotive. The lat
ter, therefore, as it has no pulling t.
perform, but only to supply power
can be built proportionately very light
The coal for Japan's navy comes
from Hakodate and Otaru, on the is
land of Yesso, which lies directly nortf
!, Of Nippon, upon which Tokyo is sit
} uated. They are two of the creates
coal shipping ports in the world. TIL
island is about 500 miles, OF two days
steaming for a man-Of-war, from Vlad
ivostok.
A Boston professor takes a whacl
e at history by declaring that Columbu
! was a highly respectable and fairl,
}, wealthy gentleman. who paid a larg
: part of the cost Of his voyage, that h
was tall and red haired, utterly unlik
. his portraits, and that Isabella had n
Jewels to pawn, having h~ypothecate
e them several years before 1892.
A recent bulletin of the department
J. Of agriculture says, "It appears tina
practically all soils contain suficien
plant food for good crop yield, tina
this supply will be indefinitely mair
tai-ad and that this actual yield Q
! plants adapted to the soil depend
mainly under favorable conditions 'uI
e on the cultural methods and suitabl
crop rotation"
y The navy department has been mai
Il ing experiments rs to the possibilit
: Of a crew escaping from a submarin
in case of an accident while the boo
= is submerged. Two dogs were expelle
!. successfully from the torpedo tubes b
means of compressed air, with u woot
en- plug behind them, just as the to-
o pedoes are fired. The tests show. thu
l. men could escape in the same way.
j. Newspaper work in Russia is NJ
- pleasant. The government spends mo
II money on its press censors than on !
y schools. Last year eighty-three paper
~ were suspended for various period
10 and twenty-six were forbidden to a
> cept all advertisements, while 259 ed
y tors were told they could have a sho
NJ ,vooo+ion IN Sihorio IF thew cOntinu(