The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-05
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year 36,917 were successful. 35,515 un-
successful and 41.645 accepted compro-
mise.
On the baby's third birthday it should
weigh thirty-one pounds If a boy and
thirty if a girl. It should measure nine
teen and a half inches around the head
and twenty inches around the chest.
The Atlantic Transport line recently
had four similar ships built, two in
Belfast and two in Philadelphia. The
American built ships cost $~1,S75.OOO.
while the Belfast ones cost $1,45O,O00.
London during a storm conversation in
English is impossible, but French is
easily understood because it has not so
many sibilant sounds and unequally
accented syllables.
States having less than one-sixth of
the population choose a majority Of the
entire senate of the United States,
while more than f%ive-sixths of the peo-
pie of the country are represented by
a majority in that body.
American imports from Sheffield,
England. last year were worth $2,242,-
600. an increase of Sale, 600 over the
year previous, but only $S11,O00 of this
was for manufactured goods, the bulk
being steel sheets, bars and plates.
Railway wrecking crane are now
/. constructed as high Us fifty tons ca
pacity. Such a crane will swing a
loaded freight car from any place with
in reach or raise a locomotive after it's
easily detachable parts are removed.
Few people know that Baron Mum
chausen, hero of SO many ex%traordina-
| ~ adventures, was a real person, a
member of an ancient Hanoverian fam
lily. He served in the Russo-Turkish
wars of the latter half of the eighteenth
century. ...
OF the $1,636,274 worth of bananas
which went into New York city within
the last year 2,S62,OOO punches were
from the British West Indies, 1,152,OOO
punches from Costa Rica, $4,000 from
Colombia and 1856 from Cuba. They
pay no duty.
Scotsmen claim st. Patrick as a
countryman. but it is not so we'll
known that the erstwhile rebel ditty,
''The Wearin' o the Green" is claimed
in behalf of Scottish composer,
James Oswald. The song is $50 years
old if it is a day.
It is calculated that the number of
timber sleepers on12the railways of the
world does not fall far short Of 1885,
100000, and a low estimate of their
value is 100000 600. This alone con-
stituted a serious drain on the timber
supplies of the world.
The greater number of the clergy of
the Church of England have not enough
to eat and drink, hundreds of them are
clothed in secondhand garments sent
to a charitable society, and many of
them have no fuel by means of which
to keep themselves warm.
In Australia, under a new law, no
contract can be made for the carrying
of mails by any steamship line which
the ships. The mail steamers hitherto
have been largely manned by dark
skinned British subjects from India.
The weather bureau collects it's in
formation by telegraph, and for a short
time twice a day the whole telegraphic
system of the country is at it's service
to the exclusion of all other business
whatsoever. The kilograms are sent in
cipher to- secure their correct, careful
transmission and to lessen tolls.
According to statistics recently gath
cred, about 100000 people are living
in prohibition territory in this country.
This is more than one-third of the en-
tire population. In Maine, Kansas and
North Dakota they have prohibition by
state law, and in ~thirty-eight other
states they have it by local option.
1.-THE question of labor is really as.
Stunning a serious aspect says Lord AL.
fred Miner. governor of the British
South African colonies, in urging the
importation of 10000 coolies from India
to be placed upon public works in the
Transvaal. British labor unions will
probably prevent this use of alien la
Dor.
The ship Terra Nova has now sailed
from England to relieve the Discovery
The British government, which has ap
propriated 5000, 900 for the expedition
is acting without the advice of the
Royal Geographical society, and the
Royal society, which originally sent thu
expedition. assisted by a grant from
the government.
The growing use of electric ligh1
signs has caused legislation on the sub
ject, as in London some time ago in re
gard to "fashers." which were restrict
ed. The n of the electric sign:
tbove the sidewalk in Chicago hav,
been officially notified that their Sign
must be kept alight until IL o'clocl
p. m. Or the licenses will be revoked.
Austrian cotton mills use 31S,O0O,OO'
, pounds of cotton a year, two-thirds O