The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-03-22
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has sixty.
Eleven thousand automobiles weFs
sold in this country during the SIX
months ending with November last
The treasury department estimates
that it will cost 9aO5,287,0 600 to run the
government for 1904 and $624,5O2,o00
for 1905.
Recently in Dundee $4,000 a ton
was paid for whalebone. This is said
to be the highest price ever paid for
whalebone.
Last year the British mercantile ma
rine sustained 1,4S3 casualties, Of
which 348 were complete wrecks. The
loss Of life was 5,31S.
The hay crop, excepting corn alone,
Is the greatest in value, the gross reali-
Eation during last year on 61,305, $40
tons being $3.50, 37G,SS0.
The ~Stuttgarter Mit-und Ruckver-t
icherungs-Aktiengesellschaft is an in
surance company, with a capital Of So
100000, which insures machinery.
The patent Office is proportionately
the most profitable of u government
departments. A balance Of over 3d.
100000 lies to its credit in the treasury.
Royal palaces in Russia are said to
be damp and unhealthy. Their insani-
tary condition is claimed by some to
be the cause of the czarina's recent
illness. y
A four inch strip Of land was sold in
New York city recently. The price
paid is said to have been $1,666. The
strip separates two properties on Sew
enth avenue.
The largest steamship in the world is
the Baltic, launched Nov. p at Belfast.
It is 1853 feet in length, 40 feet in
depth and 1876 feet in breadth. Its ton
mage is 2 1900.
The Simplon tunnel, the longest in
the world, is to be completed in 1905.
The event will be celebrated at Milan,
the nearest important Italian city, by
an international exposition.
The tip problem has been solved by
q Partisan restaurant, sc the restaura-
teur thinks. His custom is to assess
his patrons 5 per cent Of their bills and
to divide the money thus raised among
his walters.
The tobacco crop Of 815,972,425
pounds. at an average price Of S. cents
a pound, produced a revenue of $780,
514,927 last year. The. average yield
to the acre from 1,O37,73 3 acres was
1868 pounds.
In order to suppress the practice Of
doping" the French Jockey club pro-
poses to authorize the stewards to *
anime three hours before or after a
race any horse suspected of having
had a stimulant administered to 1t.
A club Of young lady students in the
Chicago university recently engaged in
q very interesting debate. They de-
cided by a large majority that beauty
is better for a woman han intellect.
This means that her proper sphere is
the home.
In the District Of Columbia. with
189,457 white people and S9,325 col
ored, there were 29,839 arrests last
year-15,72 whites, 1912 colored. The
great bulk Of these arrests were for
disorderly conduct and simple assault.
The District is comparatively free of
grave crimes.
In 1903 we imported 2,6S7,OOOS tons of
Goals, in 1902 1,532,OOO and in 1901
1,456,OOO. The great increase in 1908
(the figures are for the first nine
months of the year in each case) was
due of course to the coal strike, for
since that has been settled the import
has gone back to normal again.
The United States today, while pro-
ducing enormous amounts Of tobaccos
of various kinds and used for different
purposes, imports from Cuba filler to-
bacco for which we pay the Cuban ag-
riculturist about $S,OOO,O0O a year, the
import duty on this tobacco being $5,-
100000 or $6,OOO,OOO, making a total
Of about $14, 100000 for filler tobacco.
Hash will probably be honored by
governmental recognition. Commissary
officers in different parts of the
try, under orders to make experiments
in the use of hash, have issued canned
! hash to some of the troops with most
satisfactory results. If future expert
ments are satisfactory hash will prob
ably be introduced as a part Of the ra-
ton Of the army.
A geographical magazine makes the
statement that the Philippine Islands
have a coast line double that of the
main part Of the United States. The
measurement given is 11,444 statute
miles, while the total area is stated as
115,O26 square miles. In the Philip
pines there is one mile Of coast line to
every ten miles of area. In the United
States the proportion is one to sos. It
is said that 5000 islands and islets a
be counted on the charts.
In the photographic museum of Rot
terdam may now be seen q beautiful