The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-19
FACTS IN FEW LINES

to be nov destroying 10000 persons a
week.
The latest and most fascinating
method Of teaching children to read
is to put them at work on a typewriter.
Europeans have discovered that Pat
agonia is not an irreclaimable wider
ness, and the tide of emigration is
turning that way.
James has been the favorite Chris
tan name for presidents. W. have
had five-Madison, Monroe, Polk, Blu
chanan and Garfield.
Mortality Of the single of both sexes
Is higher than the mortality Of the
married at all periods of life, except
ages fifteen and forty-four for women.
The baobao trees Of Senegambia are
believed to be the oldest living trees
on earth. Some scientists have put
the age of one of these trees at 5000
years.
Cars driven by petroleum motors are
In use on the state railways of Wurt-
temberg. These represent an outlay of
1880 each, and the running expenses
are So cents per a mile, of which
80 goes for purchase of fuel.
Samuel 4. Wing of Hale, Ne, has a
violin which he has just made. The
tone is fine and the mechanical work
manship is excellent for a man whose
age is over seventy years. The violin
case is inlaid with purfling.
Tobacco when smoked in the open air
and particularly on a bright day with
a sharp wind is peculiarly fragrant.
The effect is enhanced by ozone, and
tobacco smoke in the presence of static
electrical apparatus develops a very
agreeable aroma.
The footing of ruins of prehistoric
villages located in the valleys of the
tributaries of the Colorado and ella
rivers In Arizona has stirred up archaic
ologists to urge their preservation by
legislative action for the benefit of stu
dents Of ethnology.
A lady in Hartford. Conn, reading
that a pincushion that had been in use
for some time on being opened devel-
oped about $50 needles. had the curios-
ity to pull apart a pincushion that she
had been using about twenty-five years.
She found by actual count 40 needles.
We have the finest hotels in the
world, and more of them than any
other country. There are altogether
$4,000 hotels in the United States, &C.
cording to a New York manager, rep
resenting an invested capital of over
$6,OOO,OOO,OOO These establishments
employ 100000 persons.
A unique tree on the island of Goa,
near Bombay, is the 'sorrowful tree"
That name is given to it because the
tree has a dropping, sad appearance
during the daytime. but it's aspect
changes as the sun goes down. Then
it's leaves open and no longer droop, and
fragrant blossoms come into bloom up
on it.
Giraffes are the most difficult Of all
animals to take by surprise. No mat
ter from what direction you may APP
proach, the giraffe is sure to discover
you. 1t has been called the original
rubberneck. 1t is not generally known
that nature, because of the height Of
its eyes from the ground, has supplied
it with a talent peculiarly it's own for
making observations.
One of Colorado's greatest curiosities
is the petrified stump of a gigantic
redwood tree. This stump, which is in
an almost perfect state of p~etrifcation,
is located at F1orissant. Although ever
since the first exploration of Colorado
numberless people have taken speci-
mems from this stump aggregating
many tons, it is still estimated to
weigh forty-four tons.
There are more daily papers in Penn
sylvania than in any other state in the
Union. The Keystone State totals 213
as against 2O7 for New York, III for
all New England, 361 for the entire
south and 1912 for the whole west.
Illinois had 131, Ohio 172 and Indiana
157: Throughout the United States and
territories there are 1888 dailies and
22.223 periodicals Of all kinds.
A billposter removed what remained
Of a lot Of small advertising bills on q
block of stone away down on the Bow
cry near Rivington street, New York.
When he had cleared its surface pretty
well he. STOPPING over. was surprised
to read. Zone mile to city hail." The
old stone il the first milestone placed
many years ago along the post road
between New York and Boston.
Another language is represented In
New York's polyglot press by the ap-
pearance of the Ecoul Americel (the
Echo Of America), a weekly newspaper
written In Roumanian. "A leading arti-
Gle in English introduces not only the
Ecoul, but the Roumanian people, to
Americans. It says that there are al
ready between $4,000 and 10000 Rou-
manians in the United States, OF whom